In the latest installment of “A Life Lived in Literature,” I recount the origins of “Better Living through Beowulf.”
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“Better Living” Emerged from a Midnight Epiphany
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My Son, Second Generation Lit Blogger
In which I praise my son’s second generation literary blogging.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Charles Dickens, Christina Rossetti, Christmas Carol, Goblin Market, John Milton, Lycidas, Tobias Wilson-Bates Comments closed
Ten Years of Literary Blogging
Friday Unreal though it seems to me, tomorrow marks the tenth anniversary of this blog. To mark the occasion, I scrolled back through the archives to see how it has evolved over the course of the decade. Although there have been a few changes (more on those in a moment), for the most part it […]
How I Make Literary Connections
Wednesday A friend the other day asked where my ideas come from, especially when I apply a passage from one century to incidents in another. Yesterday, for instance, I said that Trump confidant Roger Stone reminded me of a passage in Herman Melville’s Confidence Man. So how did that enter my head? To answer, let […]
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Reflections on Internet Trolling
Internet trolling is not contributing to discourse but poisoning it.
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Are Blogging Scholars a Step Forward?
Is academic blogging good or bad for blogging? A podcast run by my two sons discusses the issue.
In Defense of Arcane Scholarship
Disciplines may engage in arcane language but they provide the foundation out of which exciting insights emerge.
Why I Blog
Why I blog.
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Bloggers Confused Like Novelists of Old
Bloggers are facing confusion about rules similar to that faced by early novelists.
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