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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…
Mar 27
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Interview With Alan Jacobs, Mostly About Auden, Pt. 1
Auden's fearlessness
Mar 26
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Why There's Always Poetry On My First-Year Writing Syllabus
and why some of it is always recent-ish and lots of it is work to read
Mar 22
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No Offense, But Marc-Antoine Charpentier's "Regles de Composition" is Wrong About the Keys, and Here's Why
you know the list. "gay and warlike." "obscure and sad." "serious and pious." nonsense
Mar 20
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No Offense, But Marc-Antoine Charpentier's "Regles de Composition" is Wrong About the Keys, and Here's Why
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Dillard and Nicolaides
Previous twelve posts in this series on Marilynne Robinson and Annie Dillard.
Mar 19
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Dillard and Nicolaides
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"Chunking" Instead of Reading, and Other Horrible Concepts
I’ve gotten some interesting responses to last Wednesday night’s post. One of the most disturbing came from a friend who introduced me to the term…
Mar 17
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Should We Worry If Gen Z Doesn't Read Books?
because the numbers are ... well, I worry
Mar 14
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New review of Robinson's Reading Genesis
TL;DR it rocks, the queen has done it again, Wellhausencels stay losing Here are a couple parts that got cut, where I try to account a bit for…
Mar 13
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The Juvenilia, Pt. 5
the non-famous writer looks at the famous writer
Mar 11
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We Finally Have a Great Dune Adaptation. It's Time For Dhalgren: The Movie.
and also The Dispossessed: The Movie
Mar 10
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The Juvenilia, Pt. 4
Meta Ann Doak Dillard, bonne vivante
Mar 6
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