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Sunday, July 24, 2011

this fall's booklist

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Here's Dan Chaon , who teaches fiction writing at Oberlin: Occasionally, I have students who want to be rock stars. They have started a ...
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Friday, July 22, 2011

catty editors, part 439

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[William Holman Hunt, The Light of the World (1854)] “Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

opsimath's notes

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[ Walter Pater ] Reading Walter Pater's The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry this morning, I came across the lovely word opsimathy...
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Sunday, July 17, 2011

The Kindle canon

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I'm back – at least I'm back in Boca, which doesn't seem appreciably warmer than DC, where we spent the last week of our vacatio...
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Sunday, July 03, 2011

vacation reading ii

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What is this 300-gram lump of plastic good for? Certainly not serious reading, during which I find myself reaching repeatedly for the pen o...
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Sunday, June 26, 2011

vacation reading

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(If you can think of a more anodyne title for this post, by all means forward it my way.) So we're a good deal into our summer vacation,...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Nelle Walker Scroggins, 1927-2011

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Even in some outlandishly manipulated Florida outdoor environment – dig the lights strung around the palm trees – my mother is able to maint...
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Thursday, June 09, 2011

Day's. Best. News. (really)

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[Professor Scroggins, preparing to begin his lecture] The scab dropped off today. Which means I don't have skin cancer. Probably. No, se...
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Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Victorian copiousness

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We buried my mother two weeks ago today. It’s not something I’m really prepared to write about, but it does I hope go some way towards expla...
Friday, May 13, 2011

manuscript dating, with special reference to LZ

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So I happened on one of those "identify this quotation" sites, where the quotation in question was Albert Einstein's "Eve...
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crap...

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Well, for a while this morning Blogger was talking about how they were in the process of restoring the posts that had been for some reason t...
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

ruskin: turner

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One of the more disconcerting aspects of reading thru the Library Edition of Ruskin – as yes, I am still doing – is the complicated balanci...
Monday, April 25, 2011

overload

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Steve Burt laments , on the Poetry Foundation's Harriet blog, that there's just too much happening in the wide world of poesy, that ...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

home stretch

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There's only about a week & a half of classes left; my bag is full of papers to grade, however, & there are a thousand little ad...
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Sunday, April 17, 2011

the seductions of lecturing

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I went to listen to this spring's visiting writer Thursday night. Even tho I was simmering with resentment – the department's readin...
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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Hegel's 'do

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We have no portraits of Hegel in his first Jena years, only a silhouette showing him (in Terry Pinkard's words) "sporting the very ...
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Sunday, April 10, 2011

progress report

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Well, I'm sure you don't remember this post from about 5 months ago, in which I mused on harnessing my OCD for something useful – n...
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Friday, April 08, 2011

anthologizing ii

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So Ron S. really seems to have shuttered the shop , at least as a venue for actually writing about poetry. Not sure how I feel about it; li...
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Saturday, April 02, 2011

anthologizing

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"Well, nobody actually reads anthologies – you teach out of them. You find the one that fits your own pedagogical predispositions most...
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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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