CSL and the Menippean satire, once more
There’s probably not much point in responding to this post, with its rhetorical strategy of huffing and puffing...
Tag: Literature/Fiction
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posts unwritten, end-of-year edition, part 2
How interesting would it be to have a writer’s every keystroke recorded and played back? Pretty interesting, perhaps,...
O’Connor investigated
Over at University Diaries, I am having a debate with Margaret Soltan about Flannery O’Connor. Come join the fun.
admonitory image
Via Margaret Soltan the story of a Russian controversy: images from the fiction of Dostoevsky in the Moscow subway....
Anna and Levin
Stephen Emms thinks Tolstoy blew the ending of Anna Karenina. If you haven’t read the book, you might want to...
“minority cult”
That’s how Alison Flood in the Guardian characterizes Philip Roth’s thoughts about the future of the novel....
the Nation's Favourite Poet
So the BBC wants you to vote for the Nation’s Favourite Poet. Or it wants some people to vote, anyway —...
creative writing
Louis Menand's long essay in the New Yorker on Mark McGurl's new book The Program Era is, typically, superb....
the dyes from gas-tar
To John McWhorter's suggestion that we should start performing Shakespeare's plays in translation, D. H....
the future of archives
At the Chronicle of Higher Education I read this: Leslie Morris is used to handling John Updike's personal effects....