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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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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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June 3, 2013February 25, 2019 - Nonfiction, Technology, Uncategorized

A Bird, a Plane

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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April 15, 2012February 23, 2019 - Books, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

The Dividing Line, the Defining Meals: Kafka Sermon Final

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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April 12, 2012February 23, 2019 - Books, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

The Sister, the Lover, & Skepticism: Kafka Sermon #2

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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April 9, 2012February 23, 2019 - Books, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

The “Fabulous” vs. the “Struggle:” Kafka Sermon #1

ON PARABLES Many complain that the words of the wise are always merely parables and of no use in daily…

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January 12, 2012August 1, 2019 - Books, Nonfiction, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

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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April 25, 2011February 23, 2019 - Books, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

Stanley Elkin, Ghosting Through Boston, Beautifully

A reminiscence of Stanley Elkin & a one-on-one workshop session I was lucky enough to have.

January 21, 2011February 23, 2019 - Books, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

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…

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January 20, 2011February 23, 2019 - Books, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

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…

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