Culture Industry

Comments written in the margins of a student's paper on The Waste Land (apocryphal): TS Eliot —one "l," one "t." ...

The semester wears its ways towards the end; I feel weary, deeply weary. Off to the ICFA conference next week. My paper is for the most part...

The latest chapter in my crusade against misleading, mistaken, and outright batshit insane annotations in teaching texts: I habitually tea...

By the way, I just realized Culture Industry turned 9 years old yesterday. Golly. A couple of months back, I was under the misapprehension t...

Busy. This week has been our spring break, but there's been no real let-up in the busyness. A trip to Ikea, and the concomitant ditherin...

[more tens:] A touch on the audio screen and one harsh word brings the whole evening crashing down. I've been on edge, y...

[some more tens:] A gravid female apteryx, in x- ray: the four-pound body swollen with a gross one-pound egg. What sy...

[some tens:]   --> An electric clap, and the sky shuts down. And pours. My desires, like yours, are I expect rather simple...

Sunday, in a kind of all-day fury of writing, I finished a draft of the paper I'm to deliver later this week in Louisville. I've nev...

So here's what I'm thinking about this Valentine's Day weekend: first & most importantly, I took the girls to see The Lego M...

I have trouble writing. No, that's not quite true—when I've gotten going, I write fairly fluently and not particularly slowly. What ...

In a long aside in his 1977 essay “Sturgeon” (collected in Starboard Wine ), Samuel Delany discusses the widespread fan impact of Theodor...

I can’t remember the first time I received proofs of a piece of mine that was going to be published (in actual print !), but I do remember t...

Asked to contribute something to the fifteenth anniversary issue of a journal I was in on the ground floor of, & have watched for the de...

(giving up for the nonce on descriptive titles...) Two recent publications, accessible online: •A piece on Robert Duncan's H. D. Boo...

There’s a book meme going around Facebook these days, which I’ve followed with a bit of interest, but haven’t yet chimed in on: something li...

In case you're wondering, the tentative (well, not really, but am still doing a wee bit of tinkering) table of contents for the book: ...

It's been altogether too long. The big news – I just sent off a signed contract for a 100,000 word manuscript, Intricate Thicket: Some...

I always find reading great writers' juvenilia instructive. I revisited Eliot's Poems Written in Early Youth the other week, and fo...

I read The Diamond Age (19950 and enjoyed it, then promptly forgot most of it. I read Snow Crash (1992) and enjoyed it very much indeed, a...