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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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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From David Shields’s How Literature Saved My Life: When I was a little kid, I was a very good baseball…
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For a few days here on Big Other, now while we’re still in soul-shot of Passover and Easter, I’ve been…
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A couple of days ago, here on Big Other, I posted my first round of thoughts on one of Kafka’s briefest…
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ON PARABLES Many complain that the words of the wise are always merely parables and of no use in daily…
I Can Read for Miles and Miles: Field Report from the Moby-Dick Marathon
Last weekend I went to the Moby-Dick marathon, an annual event in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where much of the landlubbing…
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A reminiscence of Stanley Elkin & a one-on-one workshop session I was lucky enough to have.
Dante 2020-6: Tower, Tree, Candle, & the Triumph of the Fragile.
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…