Andrew Shields

Bull crit with Flaubert, Joyce, and Dostoevsky

Coming out of "Ice Age 2" with a six-year-old after nightfall

Hearing Marvin Gaye's "Got To Give It Up" and remembering a Saturday in 1977

My daughter ends her career in youth circus

The "sad nostalgic humming" of "Mack the Knife" in Doris Lessing's "The Golden Notebook"

Living in infamy with Dylan, Roosevelt, and Shakespeare