Sitemap - 2024 - The Tourist
For the Time Being: An Assemblage
Civic Involvement for Curmudgeons and Misanthropes
Nothing Makes Me Feel Like A Wuss Like Being Around Homeless People
Don't Worry Folks, I Came Up With a Plan to Save the Humanities
Marilynne Robinson's Americanism
How To Tell If A New Book Is Any Good Or Not
Some Ground Rules For Your Vocational Crisis
Either Way, Let's Not Limit Our Political Imagination
A Superannuated Newspaper Went After My University's DEI People. What Went Wrong?
Annie Dillard's Selflessly Self-Focused Autobiographies
The People Whose Job It Is To Care About Art and Culture Are Always the First to Abandon It
A Bit of Anecdotal Evidence About One Cause of the Reading Crisis
How I'm Trying to Address the Reading Crisis In My Syllabus
What If This Is As Good As It Gets: A Taxonomy Of Writerly Luck
Language Is Smarter Than We Are
Interview With Austin Grossman
Undecided Voters and Bored Students
Robinson and Dillard Vont en Bateau
No, It Is Not Ableist To Ask Writers Who Are Doing A Writing Event to Write Things
Teaching a Stone to Talk (1982)
The Mystery of the Charity of Kermit T. Frog
What Is Writing Supposed to Feel Like?
On the Nature and Origins of Juicelessness
You Dummies, You Absolute Dummies, THESE Are the Best Books Of the Past 25 Years
Writing: How Do You Even Begin
2024 Summer/Fall Books, A Biased Preview, Pt. 3
2024 Summer/Fall Books: A Biased Preview, Part 2
2024 Summer/Fall Books: A Biased Preview, Part I
Tickets For a Prayer Wheel (1974)
Making Up a Book to Get Mad At
Henry VI Part II: Marilynne Robinson's First Big Reclamation Project
An Open Letter to the People Who Run My University
Dillard, Robinson, and Thoreau
Annie Dillard's Earliest Poetry
UFOs, Flying Saints, Wild Facts, Knowing Things
Memories of Another Media Landscape *Entirely*
Interview with Alan Jacobs, Mostly About Auden (Single-Page Version)
Interview with Alan Jacobs, Pt. IV
Interview With Alan Jacobs, Pt. III
Interview with Alan Jacobs, Pt. II: Deep Below Our Violences
Interview With Alan Jacobs, Mostly About Auden, Pt. 1
Why There's Always Poetry On My First-Year Writing Syllabus
"Chunking" Instead of Reading, and Other Horrible Concepts
Should We Worry If Gen Z Doesn't Read Books?
New review of Robinson's Reading Genesis
We Finally Have a Great Dune Adaptation. It's Time For Dhalgren: The Movie.
Supplement to the Robinson-Dillard Series: Some Recent Marilynne Appearances
If We Don't Punish Democrats, How Will They Ever Change?
Why I'm Voting the Way in the Thing
Dead Writers I Love, and Who They Would Be In the Social Media Era
The Juvenilia, Pt. 1: In Which I Find Myself Mentally Arguing With a College Student
Ralph Waldo Emerson Considered As Four Types of Guys
Interview With Francis Spufford
Excerpt From a Work in Progress, Part One
AMERICAN FICTION Does Not Disappoint
The Myth of the Myth of the Solitary Genius
Marilynne & Annie: An Announcement
They Keep Making New Semesters
Most Critique Is Useless At Best