Like every year, there’s much to dread about 2018, and to fight against, but, fortunately there’s much to look forward…
My Year in Reading, 2017
I read two hundred books this year. Crazy, I know. “Suffering” from segmented sleep certainly “helps,” as does “suffering” from…
Barzakh
The literary magazine Barzakh has a newly designed website and has just opened a new reading period. Submit fiction, poetry, non-fiction,…
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…
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…
Spawn of Stevens
A monster is known by its spawn. Or that’s one way we know a monster, at least, and few presences…