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  • The State of the Evan Dara Affinity

    A notification from WordPress reminded me that this quixotic, Google-averse site turned 1 last month, with…

  • American Literature in Transition: 1990-2000

    Today’s quick Twitter thread on the publication of American Literature in Transition: 1990-2000, featuring Stephen Burn’s…

  • A Podcast on The Lost Scrapbook

    Out of the estimated 250,000 podcasts that make up the podsphere, and the over 8 million…

  • Charlie Harris

    WGLT reported that Charlie Harris passed away, which is hard news for anyone who gives a…

  • A Reading of The Lost Scrapbook

    While updating the resources for this site, I included an expanded entry for a series of…

  • Evergreen Eco-Fiction

    This morning’s edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch carried a story which is all too familiar…

  • One Mutual Sheaf

    “O let me teach you how to knit again/ This scattered corn into one mutual sheaf,/…

  • Satirizing Modernism

    Emmett Stinson’s new book, Satirizing Modernism: Aesthetic Autonomy, Romanticism, and the Avant-Garde, comes out in June, and…

  • Counterevidence

    Earlier this year, I happened upon the audiobook of William Gaddis’s JR, a 37-hour tour de…

  • Preparing for The Easy Chain

    Without knowing exactly where to start, I’ll begin at the beginning and wend my way through…