Monthly Archives: November 2005

Letter Writing: Nostalgic Journey

A short piece on letter writing in The Korea Times. It may well be that my most significant body of thought-out work will be all the paper letters I have scattered throughout the world. Too bad the odds of anyone … Continue reading

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Slate on the Death of Literary Theory

In Slate yesterday: By never firmly establishing what it itself was for, the English department cultivated habits of withering self-reflection and so became one mechanism by which the university could stay in touch with its nonutilitarian self and subject its … Continue reading

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Galway Kinnell Interview and Reading

An interview with, and some readings by, Galway Kinnell. The Book of Nightmares is one of my favorite booklength (a very short book!) poems.

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Blogging as Literature/Genre of Blogging

Nick ponders blogging and the possibility of blogs evolving into their own form of literature. I’m seeing variations of this question by all kinds of bloggers. This kind of contemplative regard– beyond the mechanics and affordances of blogs as tools– … Continue reading

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