Programming note
I’ll be traveling over the next few days and away from the computer.
April posts will pause, and I’ll be back next Tuesday.
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Tuesday 146: Poem
Success For a novelist, means the ability to call one book a failure. For the poet, means you are allowed to be quaint.
Tuesday 145: Thought while running
I'll be brief: In more than one of David Foster Wallace's works, he features a consumer product used for some reason other than its intended use. I wouldn't call it a preoccupation, but it's approaching motif status: In the long short story
Tuesday 144: What we'll talk about when we talk about what it was like
To fall asleep lately, I've been listening to a BBC podcast called "In Our Time," in which the host--the placid, grandfatherly voiced Melvyn Bragg--engages various scholars and academics in discussions of popular history, science, the humanities, and other general curiosities. Subjects include the 30
Tuesday 143: Odds n' the end
Picking up the pieces on a rainy Wednesday. I found myself listening to the experimental band The Books the other day, and watched a short documentary about their process. An animating preoccupation that drove the music was conversation—the idea that any juxtaposition is really a discourse. You put one