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interventions in the debates of the day, hot takes, devastating ripostes and so forth
A Good Hard Stare
"IN A TRUE DEMOCRACY, EVERY MAN IS AN ARISTOCRAT"
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At the Foot of the Peak
Why do I spend so much of my one and only God-given sacred animal life writing these stupid essays?
Not Dark Yet
Bob Dylan's second act
Midwestern Mindtrips
Meaghan Garvey's "Midwestern Death Trip"
My First Acquaintance with Editors
Behind the scenes of my recent essay for Souvenir magazine
The (Very Occasional) Good Hard Stare Show Episode 2: Sam Jennings
Shakespeare, Harold Bloom, Susan Sontag, and much much more w/ polymathic poet-critic Sam Jennings
All Changed, Changed Utterly
Yeats and the Easter Rising
Inside the Even Bigger Whale
or, how I tried and failed to write an essay on the State of Contemporary Literature
The Time Will Pass Anyway
Naomi Kanakia’s “What’s So Great About the Great Books?”
On American Psycho, for the New Statesman
+ masculinity, narcissism, the gigantic evil casino in which we are all trapped
The (Very Occasional) Good Hard Stare Show Episode 1: Daniel Oppenheimer
Talking personal history, New York Intellectuals, magazine gossip, petty rivalries, etc with the Eminent American himself.
Like a Burnished Throne, Like a Kick in the Head
Biography at the limit: "Erotic Vagrancy" and "Dino"
Scintillating Scribbling
on James Wolcott
Runaround Sue
The life and afterlife of Susan Sontag
I Want To Be There, I’ve Got To Be There
Notes on literary glamour
On William Blake, for Romanticon
+ brief update
One Year of Staring
a letter, a manifesto, a few sentimental remarks
The Palm at the End of the Mind
Visions of Key West
Time Keeps On Slipping
"The Age of Innocence"
Lost Highways
a few words in defense of the visionary tradition, the road, america, etc.