At the very moment the book is dematerializing, it is becoming more embodied than ever, the book celebrating the fetishization…
Poetry vs. Pop Culture (or, Does Anyone Dance to John Berryman?)
I was going to post this as a comment on Michael’s wonderful post from yesterday, but then it got too…
B.S. Johnson’s Final Film: “Fat Man on a Beach”
In addition to being a superb writer (one of the finest of the past fifty years, by my reckoning), B.S.…
Innovation in Art
What is innovation in art? This is something I’ve circled in my other posts, for example: “Notes on Twee, part…
Tiny Shocks: Uncovering the Reductive Plot of James Wood’s How Fiction Works
[Update: As if this post weren’t long enough, there’s now a Part 2.] On January 22, I read Shya Scanlon’s…