the gravitational pull of DFW
Ever since the Harry Ransom Center acquired the papers of David Foster Wallace and started posting photos of his...
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relating and identifying
Rebecca Mead writes about The Scourge of “Relatability”: What are the qualities that make a work...
breaking the spell
I just got back from a brief vacation at Big Bend National Park, and when I was packing I made sure to stick a novel in...
on Bleak House
I was recently telling a friend on Twitter who had just read Bleak House that when I first read it and got to the end I...
to Spritz or not to Spritz
This reflection by Virginia Heffernan defies quick summary, but let me give it a try: Proponents and critics of new...
silence as luxury good
Chloe Schama writes about silence as a “luxury product”: But the impossibility of silence says something about why...
reading and thinking, one more time
I want to put together two recent posts because I think when you look at them in conjunction with each other they...
that article again?
I’m not even going to bother to link to them: a new set of articles (they come out at least weekly, and in major...
a broken spell
Recently I was reading a lovely autobiographical essay by Zadie Smith about — well, in the way of the true essay,...
on reading and flux
Please read this lovely reflection by Frank Chimero on “what screens want” — a gloss on Kevin Kelly’s what...