Archive - Si Omnia Ficta

Reading "Beyond Stoicism"...in Athens

“Eudaimonia describes the 'life worth living' that results from one’s analysis of telos and human nature.” - Beyond Stoicism

Jul 17 •

June 2025

On Finishing Duras’ The Lover above the Sea

“Fifteen and a half….. I can see it’s all there...."

Jun 23 •

April 2025

On Reading The Odyssey in 2025

An escape into tears. . .

Apr 14 •

March 2025

On Reading Nabokov. Everywhere.

“. . .mumble, mumble, lyrical wave, mumble, lyrical wave, mumble, lyrical wave, mumble, fantastic climax, mumble, mumble. . .”

Mar 6 •

February 2025

On Reading Annie Ernaux’s "The Years" in Paris

“It will be a slippery narrative composed in an unremitting continuous tense, absolute, devouring the present as it goes, all the way to the final image…

Feb 17 •

October 2024

Brooklyn Sightings: “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"

Last week, my undergraduate creative writing class discussed Gabriel García Márquez’s "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.” We explored the basics…

Oct 31, 2024 •

December 2023

A Review in the Shape of a Barbie Catalog

“A Visceral Scroll through the Smokelong Quarterly Barbie Catalog"

Dec 27, 2023 •

On Reading George Gissing’s "New Grub Street" beside the Acropolis

Too much “there” there.....

Dec 21, 2023 •

August 2023

Uneasy Neighbors

Part 1: My father’s memory and my search for story

Aug 28, 2023 •

May 2023

Reading Notes from Woolf’s "To the Lighthouse” and a Resource List from APStogether

“But looking together united them....” TTL, Ch. 2

May 21, 2023 •

On Reading "To the Lighthouse" beside the Ionian Sea

“I am making up To the Lighthouse—the sea is to be heard all through it.”

May 20, 2023 •

April 2023

Anne Carson, Eros, and “Another Bride in Porto"

“When I desire you a part of me is gone...."

Apr 24, 2023 •

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