Culture Industry

For those of you ( Jessica among others) who want instant gratification – or at least as instant as 5-months-in-advance gratification can b...

The latest blog hiatus stems from a week-long trip to God’s Country (the Old Homestead) – an alright “vacation,” so to speak, tho I’ll be cl...

One begins with the notion of the ideal index, the key to all the book’s mythologies, the list that is itself a re-visioning of the book, a ...

Since no-one in the alt-poetry world has to my knowledge noted his passing, I’ll say a few things on behalf of the fine English poet Michael...

From the midst of a sea of letters & numbers, all to sorted into the right order: once again, Our University is in the news, and Univer...

Various views of the index: The Chicago Manual stance, in which the index is the indispensible tool for finding what you want to find, for ...

So we’re back from a long weekend away – the less said the better, a combination of great fun & some highly irritating moments & mor...

We leave tomorrow for a long weekend of "holiday," which as every parent of preschoolers knows involves much more labor than any t...

Somewhere in the sixties (the number, not the decade) I lose count of how many Michael Moorcock novels I’ve read. Most of them I consumed at...

Eric, who’s vowed that he won’t let Say Something Wonderful die, has posted a lovely little video of Allen Ginsberg singing “Father Death B...

That last entry looks a bit cranky, I guess, or a bit – as I think I said – ‘self-interested.’ But ‘erotic,’ as it’s defined on the dictiona...

Blurbage: “The erotic works of Alan Davies hold a unique place in contemporary literature. They do not focus on the fantasy of sex, underwea...

Daphne Gottlieb, Final Girl (Soft Skull, 2003): "Final girl” theory, adumbrated by Jane Dark’s mum Carol Clover – the last woman left ...

Almost a week & a half into my own summer vacation, what for way too many of my colleagues is the first summer term – & aside from a...

With the Spring semester behind us, & the summer’s travels/travails not quite begun, we’re in the midst of a take-no-prisoners clean-dow...

I thought memes had gone out of fashion on the internets, but I’ve just gotten tagged by none other than Ron S. as a “Thinking Blogger,” ...

Check it out: My place of employment (I know this, because I just got an e-mail from the personnel department letting me know that I am free...

So here's what you've all been asking about: The Poem of a Life: A Biography of Louis Zukofsky has been in progress since 1998. It ...

...what Mr UPS brought by this afternoon. Am I happy? I am happy.

My call for suggestions in re/ a prospective course in biography netted a plethora of suggestions. Everyone seems to enjoy biographies – eve...