Art… Found Poetry from Google Search Console 8 Mar 20168 Mar 2016 "Make it new," Ezra Pound famously said, a mantra which can be applied to any example of what is called found poetry. Examples of making it new can be found…
Bale… Happy Black Friday 2015 from David Foster Wallace 3 Dec 201525 Nov 2016 A week ago yesterday - on Wednesday, November 25 - I came across a deal on Amazon: a free digital download of the SD version of the David Foster Wallace…
Books… What Would Faulkner Say About True Detective Season Two? 10 Aug 201515 May 2016 In a previous post, I've argued that no one should call a show good or bad until the end is known. Which means, now that the end is known, we…
Bolano… Thirteen Ways to Fill the Flat Circle After Season Two of True Detective 9 Aug 201528 Sep 2016 Well, Season Two is over. Whether you are satisfied with the ending or not, chances are that you are a little bummed that you don't get to watch it next…
Books… Why Harper Lee’s “New Novel” is the Literary Equivalent of Greedo Shooting First 3 Aug 20154 Aug 2015 People love pretending that there is a new novel by Harper Lee, available in stores now. But we all know there isn't. I'm not going to go into all the details…
Books… The Beginner’s Guide to David Foster Wallace: Five Things to Read, for Free 31 Jul 201511 Sep 2023 The Best David Foster Wallace Books (or Stories or Essays) to Try Reading Perhaps you want to see the new David Foster Wallace movie, but you aren't sure why. You…
Books… Why Everyone Should Calm Down and Take Vonnegut’s Approach to Talking about Big Game Hunting 30 Jul 201526 Sep 2016 People love to shame these days. They also love to shame the shamers. And with the tendency for the internet to get hysterical about anything that seems worthy of hysteria,…
Books… Six Things Hemingway Never Said 10 Jul 201512 Jan 2017 The internet loves a good quote. Trouble is, the internet rarely cares if the quote was said by the person whose name follows it. It also rarely cares if the…
Joyce Carol Oates… One Month Later: Regarding Joyce Carol Oates and Dinosaurs 9 Jul 20159 Jul 2015 Something that never ceases to interest me is how different the world can be, depending solely on what news you consume. I noticed this more than ever one month ago, in the situation…
A Song of Ice and Fire… Six Months of Search Terms: Wolverine, His Beard, and The Strange Searches That Lead People Here 2 Jul 20152 Jul 2015 A few years ago, I wrote a blog post called The Maramduke Fart Paradox, in which I discussed the strange search engine terms that lead people to this website. Among…