A Few Words from Auden
I am still poking my way along through Auden’s Dyer’s Hand and it is so glorious that over the weekend …
Category Archives: Essays
In Other Worlds
I like Margaret Atwood. A lot. I like her novels. I like her poetry. I like her essays. No writer …
Attacking Bad Books is a Waste of Time
I mentioned after the Thanksgiving holiday weekend that one of the books I began reading was The Dyer’s Hand by …
Describing the Fantastic
I’m slowly making my way through the essays in A New Literary History of America. When I say slowly, I …
A Capacious Hold-All
Have you heard of A New Literary History of America edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors? I hadn’t until …
Sugar in My Bowl
When I had the opportunity to receive a review copy of a book of essays about women and sex edited …
Franco Moretti on Trees
At last I can say I finished Franco Moretti’s Graphs, Maps, Trees. It is a book of three essays, well, …
Miscellaneous Blather
I thought I was safe from the yellow ball in the sky when I saw the rain this morning. But …
Franco Moretti on Maps
I posted about the graphs essay of Franco Moretti’s Graphs Maps Trees back in June last year. Nothing like taking …
The Late American Novel
When C. Max Magee of The Millions offered me a review copy of The Late American Novel: Writers on the …
