“Now, commendation and its opposite being analogous as regards effects, we cannot easily deny the fact that although the law…
Poetry, E-Books, and John Ashbery
There’s an article in today’s New York Times called “Line by Line, E-Books Turn Poet-Friendly.” In it, Alexandra Alter reports…
Ich bin ein Junge • Issue 2
The September 2014 edition of the very interesting Ich bin ein Junge is up. Click on the image above to…
Intro and Outro
There are writers who seem to fall through the net, who somehow miss out on the audience they deserve. They…
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…
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…
Inverse of distraction
At the very moment the book is dematerializing, it is becoming more embodied than ever, the book celebrating the fetishization…
common place
:::: Learning to travel is another way of saying learning to read. (37) :::: For five months at the beginning…
“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…
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…