"To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric..." Theodor W. Adorno (1) An image is worth a thousand words, but a thousand words often create their own images. Poetry has long been...
literature
Wow. As of today, Woody Guthrie's previously unpublished 1947 novel, House of Earth is available for us to purchase. Finished in 1947 and lost to readers until now, House of.
Labor Notes has an interesting survey of working-class literature, asking organizers and activists about their favorite class-conscious novels. Admittedly, when I became a professor I stopped reading novels. This is.
Philip Roth, the greatest American writer of his era, claims to have retired. In the end, this might be a good thing, assuming he really retires. While his 90s and early 2000s resurgence was brilliant, his last novels were, uh, not very good. I had...
Although I do not have children, when I was integrated into the gigantic family of my in-laws, I was exposed to the American Girl Doll phenomenon. The dolls' little historical.
The great Italian novelist (though many of his novels take place in Portugal) is no more. Sad news. A writer worthy of the Nobel.
Guernica is publishing a Jose Saramago short story in two parts. Here is the first. There's not much left unpublished from the great writer I presume. This story is part of a collection of short stories soon to be published. After that, I doubt there...
Though I suppose this would get me fired in Arizona, I'll admit that I strategically punctuate my lesson plans with profanity. That guy in the back of the class who.
Very interesting Jeanette Winterson take on Henry Miller in the Times Book Review. I suppose my problem with Miller isn't that he was a misogynist per se. Philip Roth is.
Underworld is a very fine novel worth reading in its bulky enterity, but the prologue is just spectacularly good. I'd call it the best writing about baseball ever except that this might faintly damn it through pigeonholing. And I say this as someone who is...
Since SEK brought it up... Since what I have to say is predominantly negative, I should say that Freedom is not without its pleasures and accomplishments. Ruth Franklin's bottom line,.
I am slowly and not so surely pushing my way through this list, working forward chronologically. William Hazlitt's On Common-Place Critics is, in fact, quite fantastic. Now reading the Fitzgerald,.