Inconceivable!

Not exactly a household name (except in certain effete and cultivated households) thespian (his credits include over a hundred movie and TV appearances--My Dinner With Andre, Shadows and Fog, Toy Story, The Princess Bride, Life on Mars among them) playwright (The Designated Mourner and The Fever) Wallace Shawn, scion of revered New Yorker editor, brother of composer Allan Shawn, has penned Essays (Haymarket Press), a dozen pieces on a mélange of subjects. In the case of Shawn, the question is not about what he has written but why. Here's his explanation:

Indeed.