The Divine Comedy has its end, after 3X9 spirals rendered in 100 evenly distributed cantos, and it’s about time my…
Dante 2020-5: the Intimate Erases the Monolith.
BIG OTHER, gracious blog, has been letting me post my ideas about Dante’s Divine Comedy. The basic question: Why should…
Dante 2020-4: Big Lights & Small Grapple in Paradise.
Three times, recently, I’ve posted my ideas about Dante’s Divine Comedy. I’m exploring why a long poem coming up on…
Dante 2020-3: Cleansing as Carnival, Tree as Anchor.
Twice in recent days, I’ve posted stages in a developing idea about Dante’s Divine Comedy. The work is coming up…
Dante 2020-2: Nothing so Claustrophobic as a Castle
A couple of days back, I posted the first of my thoughts about Dante’s Divine Comedy. With the 700th anniversary…
Dante 2020, or How Does That Guy Get Away with a Fedora?
Struggling to deliver for BIG OTHER, I’ve kept coming back to the following, on Dante and his Divine Comedy. In…
Spawn of Stevens
A monster is known by its spawn. Or that’s one way we know a monster, at least, and few presences…
Stat & Astonished
As a fiction writer — primarily — I think a lot about imaginative literature and how it fits, nowadays, in…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by John Domini
“And more than once, in their middle years, she and King Shahryar had pretended in bed that her life was…