Tuesday As I’ve watched one woman after another come forward with reports of having had either a child or a paid abortion (and sometimes both) courtesy of GOP Senate Candidate Herschel Walker, I’ve had a nagging feeling that I’ve encountered something similar in literature. After much thought, I’ve figured out the work. At the end […]
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Alas, Poor Twitter–I Knew Him, Ho-Ratio
Literary allusions have been flying, many with a sense of doom, since Elon Musk purchased Twitter.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Elon Musk, Hamlet, Henry VI Part 2, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice, Samuel Beckett, Sense and Sensibility, twitter, Waiting for Godot, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Your Shadow Makes This Book Glow
Rilke’s “You Come and Go” finds different ways to imagine God.
Chaucer Doth Tweet
Check out Chaucer Doth Tweet, a twitter account dedicated to Middle English parodies. It’s very much in the spirit of Chaucer.
My Upcoming Ljubljana Lectures
I share the works I will be lecturing on at the University of Ljubljana.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Post-Colonial Literature, Slovenia, University of Ljubljana, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Manskinner Boris & Putin’s Terror Tactics
Russian atrocities in Ukraine bring to mind Boris the Manskinner, from Murakami’s “Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.”
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged atrocities, genocide, Haruki Murakami, Russo-Ukrainian War, Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Comments closed
