Monthly Archives: October 2022

Herschel Walker as Mac the Knife

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 […]

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Alas, Poor Twitter–I Knew Him, Ho-Ratio

Literary allusions have been flying, many with a sense of doom, since Elon Musk purchased Twitter.

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Your Shadow Makes This Book Glow

Rilke’s “You Come and Go” finds different ways to imagine God.

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A Dickinson Poem for Halloween

For the ultimate in horror, look to the human mind.

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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.

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My Upcoming Ljubljana Lectures

I share the works I will be lecturing on at the University of Ljubljana.

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Manskinner Boris & Putin’s Terror Tactics

Russian atrocities in Ukraine bring to mind Boris the Manskinner, from Murakami’s “Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.”

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The Bard Cited in DeSantis Smackdown

A judge has cited a Shakespearean passage to equate an out-of-line Florida state prosecutor to Henry V.

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Thinned Back to Bare Wood

Hirshfield’s beautiful poem about autumn compares a stripped trees to a revered icon.

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