OK, well, obviously, anything that spawned Godwin’s Law isn’t going to be the best place to start an intellectual inquiry…
Inverse of distraction
At the very moment the book is dematerializing, it is becoming more embodied than ever, the book celebrating the fetishization…
common place
:::: Learning to travel is another way of saying learning to read. (37) :::: For five months at the beginning…
“Serious” readers, and maybe why they’re so rare
Did you know there’s a Wikipedia entry for “Death of the novel“? Well, now you do, and it seems that…
Politics and the Novel
Why do I listen to NPR? Lately, it seems as though it’s been overrun by heathens, although maybe I’m just…
Duende
Duende, a new online (and beautifully designed) literary journal run by the good folks in Goddard College’s BFA Program, is…
“Is Your Villain Appropriate?”—Examining Character Construction in Different Media
This post came up today in conversation, and I thought, why not reblog it. Enjoy!
100
And so we start the celebrations, commemorations, what have you, for the 100th anniversary of the First World War. We…
Comics Works: Battling Boy—Execution and Expectations
Battling Boy, the most recent work by cartoonist Paul Pope, arrived from First Second Books last year, although I was…
Being About Aboutness
The title of Joshua Landy’s How to Do Things with Fictions should not lead you to believe that what is…