Notes, observations, both complete and errant thoughts on what I’ve read.
Reading aloud a poem published in the New York Review of Books September 21, 2023 issue.
"An Ideal Craftsman" follows a young boy down to the larder, happening upon a crime scene.
A few reflections on the discovery of 16th-century poet Robert Southwell, apparently an exemplar of English Metaphysical Poetry.
Reading "Jane Eyre" for the second time revealed a quite different— quite Christian and not postcolonial—one from what inhabited my…
From the "Spoon River Anthology" by Edgar Lee Masters, excerpts and commentary on the experience of its reading
A passage from Henry James' novel "An International Episode" displays the tyranny of the imagination
On the experience, specifically pain, of reading as instanced with reference to the modernist masterpiece "Ulysses" by Irish writer James…
One of several forthcoming asides on the book "Ulysses" by James Joyce. Lead us not into temptation.
Don DeLillo's "The Silence," is a strange novel featuring an electromagnetic pulse and empty narration
A summary of Cynthia Ozick's "Trust", being the story of a peculiar, nameless narrator seeking the reasons for her lack…