Category Archives: Literature

Anthony Kerrigan on Borges

Posted on July 30, 2012 by

While rummaging through used bookshops in Colorado this weekend I picked up a copy of Jorge Luis Borges’s Ficciones. I confess I had not read Borges before, but I remembered an allusion to his work in Foucault’s The Order of … Continue reading →

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Don’t Try This In A Bar…

Posted on June 26, 2012 by

A friend of mine emailed this to me. I figured you might get as many laughs from it as I have. Dear Paris Review, What Books Impress a Girl?.

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From David Foster Wallace

Posted on January 31, 2012 by

Early on in Infinite Jest: Were he now still among the living, Dr. Incandenza would now describe tennis in the paradoxical terms of what’s now called ‘Extra-Linear Dynamics.’ And Schtitt, whose knowledge of formal math is probably about equivalent to … Continue reading →

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A Friendly Musical Suggestion

Posted on January 27, 2012 by

Here’s a favorite from Josh Ritter‘s second album, Animal Years:

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Pip

Posted on January 2, 2012 by

A favorite image from UK Hip-Hop/Spoken Word artist Scroobius Pip: I swear we sat for hours before words were introduced. Just relaxing in a world, below the fights and abuse. Below the weapons of war, below the cars and the … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas!

Posted on December 25, 2011 by

From A Christmas Carol:    Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this is thy dominion! But of the loved, revered, and honoured … Continue reading →

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Passing the Grave of Johannes Climacus in Spoon River Cemetery

Posted on December 9, 2011 by

If you haven’t come into contact with Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology, then I beg you to stop reading this and go buy it. I am quite serious. (If you lack the two dollar price of the Dover Thrift … Continue reading →

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From Faulkner’s South

Posted on November 27, 2011 by

I recently decided to indulge myself by rereading Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! It’s been that kind of holiday, I guess. Anyway, I wanted to post a great moment early in the text in which Faulkner’s gifts for pinpointing and diagnosing the … Continue reading →

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