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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

officiating/interim

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I haven't dropped off the face of the earth, tho I haven't been in this space for a while. Much has been going on, some of it not so...
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Thursday, March 10, 2011

reading notes: pound, hulme

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I have just now finished Richard Sieburth's newish (2010) edition of Pound's New Selected Poems and Translations (New Directions), ...
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Wednesday, March 09, 2011

the death of literary history

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Just arrived in the mail today, a book that might well serve as doorstop: Helen Carr's The Verse Revolutionaries: Ezra Pound, H. D. and ...
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Monday, March 07, 2011

finis

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It seems like yesterday, though it was actually half a year ago, that I rejoiced in this here blog-space at reaching the halfway point of T...
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Friday, March 04, 2011

break

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So yes, I'm now officially on Spring Break. Which, for those of you who get their impressions of what a university professor does from F...
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Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Macaulay's Boswell's Johnson

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Any biographer will tell you that the real bummer about reviews of biographies is that reviewers almost never pay attention to the book at h...
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Monday, February 28, 2011

back

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A miscellany tonight, as all too often. A week or two ago, enthralled with the density and productive rhythm of Johnson's Rambler essay...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

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Hey, would whoever shared the Ruskin & Pubic Hair link on Facebook let me know who they are? Just out of curiosity...
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Saturday, February 19, 2011

advice for booksellers

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I cannot live without books. –Thomas Jefferson We talk of food for the mind, as of food for the body: now a good book contains such food ine...
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my writing life

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First things first: when it comes to writing tips, from the very basic hints as to how to get started up to how to organize one's work o...
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Wednesday, February 09, 2011

reference two-step; open letter

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I too dislike them – endnotes, that is, with continual flipping back & forth between where you're reading & the back of the book...
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Monday, February 07, 2011

survived

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I've survived the weekend. It began, horrifically, with the girls' school carnival, 2 hours of trudging around in the sun (not awful...
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Wednesday, February 02, 2011

books beneath contempt

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The gradations of a hero's life are from battle to battle, and of an author's from book to book. Success and miscarriage have the sa...
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Saturday, January 29, 2011

not burning to put pen to paper

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The letter carrier & the UPS person have been dropping off a steady stream of books over the past few days. I finally decided to get ser...
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Monday, January 10, 2011

academic genealogies

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[Robert von Hallberg, eminent retiree ] The lastest Chicago Review is out, & as usual it's both a beautiful artifact and a fascinat...
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Sunday, January 09, 2011

the sorrows of bibliophilia

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That time of year is upon us: the semester begins next week, & I'm as usual trembling in my boots (well, sandals) at the prospect. I...
Friday, December 31, 2010

year's end iii

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We arrived back from NYC last night, after a purgatorial trip – endless security lines at LaGuardia with our two small children, numerous ca...
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Sunday, December 19, 2010

year's end ii

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Tomorrow P. & I leave for the northeast, & we'll be there almost thru the end of the year, so I don't imagine I'll be do...
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Friday, December 17, 2010

more romanticism...

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I love a post like that last one , or at least the reactions to it – here, read this, read the other... It's like having a real, you kno...
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Thursday, December 16, 2010

my romanticism problem

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I am not, alas, a romantic, in any sense of the word. I have some friends who are true-blue, dyed-in-the-wool romantics (like Eric) in the ...
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