Culture Industry

The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry , edited by the estimable Corkonians Alex Davis & Lee M. Jenkins, with dandy entries by folk...

I think it’s fair to say that JM Barrie & the whole Peter Pan/Neverland mythos had precisely zero influence on my childhood. I didn’t ev...

My favorite local used & rare book dealer is working his way thru at least 3 vast collections he’s recently acquired, & I’ve been ge...

Last night’s bout of tongue-biting insomnia sent me back to another FSG freebie I’d forgotten I had until it slipped off the shelf into my h...

One of the more trifling and fatuous manifestations of Ron Silliman’s manic desire to divide the poetry world down the middle (sheep : right...

[This one from earlier this evening, when RW read before a standing-room-only crowd at the "Board of Trustees Room" of Our Univers...

[A new feature: the texts of introductions to visiting speakers/poets. Rosmarie Waldrop is spending the week at Our University as a visiting...

Culture Industry is now two years old. I had only a vague idea of what I wanted to do with a weblog when I started this one back in 2005. I...

So I guess I'm using the new Blogger – this by way of a test post, nothing more. They twisted my arm. Wouldn't take no for an answer...

My MO when teaching Joyce is to do all the reading for the seminar before the seminar begins; then to read along with the students as the sy...

Very nice, thank you. I spent a good deal of time over the weekend with some old friends and acquaintances, talking, eating & drinking, ...

After a pretty hellaciously busy half-week, I’m packing to leave for Louisville tomorrow afternoon. The paper I’ll be delivering is as done ...

by yer 'umble blogger on the latest issue of Tony Tost's excellent Fascicle : "Captain Modernism," "John Milton Blues...

This is one of those weekends – one of those “J’s away at a family event in New York & I’ve got solo charge of the girls, even as I’m ei...

There was a period in my life – roughly from 14 to 17 – when I read everything by the English novelist Anthony Burgess I could lay my hands ...

My blogging has been so spotty of late that I feel I owe my 7 real readers – the readers, that is, aside from the hundreds who surf by to s...

I was saddened to learn of the death last weekend of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and interested to find Bob Archambeau remembering him today o...

In the first chapter of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , we meet the Dedalus family friend Mr Casey, whose hand is cramped from a s...

I’m still alive, tho last week came close to killing me. (NB: If you send in a manuscript with either calculus equations or Greek quotations...

Culture Industry has been more or less dark for a while now, & may remain that way for a bit longer. A lot on our plate here in the spac...