Culture Industry

I haven't been to the annual Modern Language Association conference for maybe six or seven years, but I'll be in Philadelphia later ...

I used to post a year’s-end list of books I’d read and been impressed by; 2016, however, has been such a eventual year...

And then there was that time— he’s telling someone, years hence—he hopes to be —when we all             ran a ra...

My new collection of essays and reviews is out now: The Mathematical Sublime: Writing About Poetry . (Those of you who are scared of math—co...

Right now I'm working on a large essay-review, an attempt at coming to terms with a long and very complicated recent book of poetry. And...

Why am I reading Wyndham Lewis?, you ask. Well, he represents a major hole in my knowledge of modernism. (Or perhaps, more fairly, one of t...

Paul O’Keeffe, Some Sort of Genius: A Life of Wyndham Lewis (2000; London: Pimlico, 2001) I started and abandoned The Enemy , Jeffrey ...

Hannah Sullivan's book The Work of Revision (did I mention how generally excellent it is?) captured a long-held desire of mine to think...

It's been ages; no excuses, though this has been a wearying semester, punctuated with some fine conference visits and some good music. I...

I'm about a third of the way through indexing the book—that is, entering all my highlighted elements into an alphabetized document—and I...

So I read and returned the proofs of Michael Moorcock: Fiction, Fantasy and the World's Pain . By my count, 15 corrections total, and on...

I've been feeling not great about my writing lately, so it was a mixed blessing to get page proofs for my forthcoming Michael Moorcock: ...

I often wonder what I might have accomplished—as poet, as scholar, as writer in general—if my attention were more disciplined. As it is, the...

I've been walking a great deal, in part for my health, over the past 6 months. I like to look around, pay attention to my surroundings. ...

[essay in the quotidian] Last night Daphne left her phone at the froyo place in the mall; it had been our last stop of the evening, a kind...

  These two gems are from my adolescent collection, fished out of my mother's house last summer. Edited by Lin Carter, the Oscar Will...