Literature

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

Too much “there” there.....

Dec 21, 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 •

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

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

Apr 24, 2023 •

“Women Talking” and “A Mennonite Speaks Out” on Mary Gaitskill’s Out of It

Because I’ve had quite a number of new subscribers these past couple of weeks, I wanted to repost my earlier writing on Women Talking on Mary…

Mar 12, 2023 •

Thoughts on “The End"

of the English major, that is.....

Mar 7, 2023 •

Gertrude Stein’s Three Picassos

"Every one was forced by the war which made them understand that things had changed to other things and that they had not stayed the same things, they…

Feb 8, 2023 •

Rachel Kushner’s “A King Alone"

“...sincerity can be delivered in a container of camp..."

Jan 26, 2023 •

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