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February 6, 2020August 29, 2023 - Birthday, Nonfiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: Two Essays, by Gabriel Blackwell

  Happy birthday, Gabriel Blackwell! Celebrate by reading these two Blackwell essays we published March 7, 2019!   Discipline After…

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March 7, 2019August 28, 2023 - Anthology, Archives, Nonfiction, Reading, Writing

Two Essays, by Gabriel Blackwell

Discipline After a friend’s suicide, Tōson Shimazaki quit his job—teaching—in order to move to the country in order to live…

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February 13, 2015February 24, 2019 - Fiction, Film, Nonfiction, Uncategorized, Writing

From Madeleine E.

[INT. Scottie’s Bedroom (NIGHT)] … There is no dead matter. Lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms…

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October 15, 2014February 24, 2019 - Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

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You know who sells a lot of soap? Procter & Gamble. Do you think P&G soap is “the best”? or…

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October 9, 2014February 24, 2019 - Quotes, Uncategorized

“The reason why poetry once lost favor with the more judicious”

“Now, commendation and its opposite being analogous as regards effects, we cannot easily deny the fact that although the law…

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August 7, 2014February 25, 2019 - Books, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

Tolerance and Accessibility II

Let’s try a slightly different tack this time. Here are the first two paragraphs of a review written by Clifton…

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July 4, 2014February 25, 2019 - Art, Books, Nonfiction, Technology, Uncategorized, Writing

Tolerance and Accessibility

OK, well, obviously, anything that spawned Godwin’s Law isn’t going to be the best place to start an intellectual inquiry…

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May 6, 2014February 25, 2019 - Books, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

“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…

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April 25, 2014February 25, 2019 - Books, Politics, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

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…

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January 29, 2014February 25, 2019 - Books, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

Being About Aboutness

The title of Joshua Landy’s How to Do Things with Fictions should not lead you to believe that what is…

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