Hugh Kenner Hits a Home Run
Wouldn’t it take an outsider to aptly critique the American scene, the American people, the American culture? Hugh Kenner, a…
A Sequence on Sequence, Pt. 2: Matt Dube
[A guest post from Matt Dube, fiction editor for the online journal H_NGM_N. He teaches creative writing and American lit…
Joy to the Reader When Reading Gass’s The Tunnel
How can I contain myself? (But perhaps the question is: how could Gass both contain and not contain himself to…
Samuel Beckett’s “Eh Joe”
In my last post, I mentioned Eh Joe (1965), Beckett’s first work for television. It would be remiss of me…
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.…
An Interview with Yuriy Tarnawsky, Part 3
Part 1 | Part 2 [Please note that I’ve updated both of these posts with photos that Yuriy sent me.]…
“Is Your Villain Appropriate?”—Examining Character Construction in Different Media
Every Monday, I read Mark Rosewater’s weekly column “Making Magic,” partly because I have a casual interest in the collectible…
Eight Bit Beckett
Lit snob? Gamer geek? Perhaps both? Rumor has it that the developers are working on a version of Company for…
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…