The World Cup is leading to some great literary tweets from my English professor son.
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Tag Archives: Tobias Wilson-Bates
How Sports Spurred My Literary Imagination
In which I examine my longtime relationship with sports, along with some of its literary associations.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Ties", "To Be of Use", Brian Gottfried, Dabney Stuart, Jean Renoir, Julius Caesar, Marge Piercy, Roger Federer, Rules of the Game, Sports, sprezzatura, tennis, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Sterne’s Uncle Toby and My Own Toby
In which I reflect on the name I gave to my youngest son, linking him back to the kindly Uncle Toby in “Tristram Shandy.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Kindness", "We Are Seven", Book of Tobit, Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, William Wordsworth Comments closed
Sad Thoughts in Early Spring
A guest post on Wordsworth’s “Lines Written in Early Spring” from Tobias Wilson-Bates to celebrate the official start of spring.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Spring", “Lines Written in Early Spring", William Wordsworth Comments closed
My Son, Second Generation Lit Blogger
In which I praise my son’s second generation literary blogging.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged blogging, Charles Dickens, Christina Rossetti, Christmas Carol, Goblin Market, John Milton, Lycidas Comments closed
No, A.I. Will Not Change How We Read Lit
Will A.I. change how people read lit, as this New Yorker article claims? Uh, no.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged artificial intelligence, Bleak House, Bluesky, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Joshua Rothman, Philip Pullman, Richard Hugo, Tobias Smollett Comments closed
A.I. and the Tech Bro Accelerationists
AI is the darling of Silicon Valley accelerationists, who sound like the old Italian Futurists and who appear never to have read Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Andy Beckett, climate change, Ezra Pound, Fascism, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Frankenstein, Greg Olear, Italian Futurism, Macbeth, Mary Shelley, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., William Shakespeare Comments closed
Final (?) Toby Literary Tweets
Comc literary tweets from Tobias Wilson-Bates
The Ten Best Brit Poems of 1800s
My Victorianist son shares his top ten 19th century British poems.