the odyssey and the crisis of fiction
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gundwyn
history, utopia, millenarianism, spectatorship, participation, contemporary life, whatever else i want to write about. but mostly novels.
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plotting with bond girls
early james bond, formulaic media, narrativization, and how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb???!!
rom com mindset
Notting Hill, Nora Ephron, Pride and Prejudice, The Green Ray, existential despair
postmodern joy
the Cosmic House, If On a Winter's Night a Traveller
winter
with Homer and Hilary Mantel
in defense of the humanities
I’ve been thinking about this for a long, long time, often wondering why defenses of the humanities feel so flimsy.
art, meaning, despair
'what is art FOR???' ad nauseum
against escapism
fiction is more than a palliative!!
the banal apocalypse
julia armfield, science fiction that forecloses the future
what kind of fiction?
literature as world vs. literature as intervention vs. literature as escape