I’m going to post three short things regarding the NY Times book reviewer Michiko Kakutani. They are mostly lies and…
Touching on Grief: On the Story “Dreaming Before Sleep,” by Kathryn Chetkovich, and Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen
Due to a violent death in my family, I found myself unable to read or write for about five months.…
We Know Best What’s Nearest (Living Art Backwards)
A quick follow-up to Tim’s post here, which was itself in response to Jackie Wang’s post here. Wang had asked:…
David Foster Wallace, on Television, on Television as the Dominant
I’m very fond of quoting from Roman Jakobson’s 1935 essay “The Dominant”. Lately I’ve been thinking about this passage in…