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Dillard, Robinson, and Thoreau
Previous fourteen posts in this series on Marilynne Robinson and Annie Dillard, super duper geniuses. If you’ve taken a literature survey at an American…
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Columbia, Gem of the Ocean
One time one of my closest conservative relatives tried to start a fight with me by making a tired point about liberal bias in the media. In return I…
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Interchangeable Sea and Sky
Previous thirteen posts in this series on Marilynne Robinson and Annie Dillard, super geniuses.
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Annie Dillard's Earliest Poetry
it's whatever
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UFOs, Flying Saints, Wild Facts, Knowing Things
Just a quick note that my old Plough book column is back, with a consideration of a new book about the Barney and Betty Hill UFO kidnapping incident…
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Eclipse Fever
the sun was going, and the world was wrong
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Memories of Another Media Landscape *Entirely*
the closest thing to a memoir I'll ever write
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Interview with Alan Jacobs, Mostly About Auden (Single-Page Version)
which is to say, about everything
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March 2024

Interview with Alan Jacobs, Pt. IV
repetition. repetition. repetition.
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Interview With Alan Jacobs, Pt. III
The Shield of Achilles
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Interview with Alan Jacobs, Pt. II: Deep Below Our Violences
Yesterday’s post, for context. The poem “Winds,” by W.H. Auden, which we discuss (formatting is a little off): The Tourist is a reader-supported…
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Interview With Alan Jacobs, Mostly About Auden, Pt. 1
Auden's fearlessness
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