Various writings that touch on reading as a meaningful, life-affirming, intellectually-edifying activity.
Reading aloud a poem published in the New York Review of Books September 21, 2023 issue.
Not long ago I ordered "Strata: William Smith's Geological Maps" lighting a fire of memory and reflection
A few reflections on the discovery of 16th-century poet Robert Southwell, apparently an exemplar of English Metaphysical Poetry.
The best books and films of 2022, some description thereof, as well as a few of the worst.
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
May reading and viewing of Ashley Vaught in 2022. Best of: "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia, "Dubliners", and "Wheel…
On the experience, specifically pain, of reading as instanced with reference to the modernist masterpiece "Ulysses" by Irish writer James…
How do you read and watch narcoleptically? Binging series and reading sparingly, here and there.
A spirited response enjoining MORE pessimism to Fred Hyatt's Washington Post editorial on technology and democracy
The circumstances of my purchase and knowledge of "Up From Slavery," Booker T. Washington's most famous autobiography
Repeatedly not finishing a sentence. Either subject or predicate but not both. Becomes some poetry itself.
Perhaps I began the month of December inauspiciously, insofar as I read/viewed/consumed nothing on the first day of the month…
In Anna Seghers' novel "Transit," no one really knows who the other is. The reader is never certain of who…
During the month of November what I read and viewed—what I consumed—was less varied and somewhat sparse. In fact, lost…