Blake Smith
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| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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Two 'lectures' by Shelby Foote
A few weeks ago someone sent me a nice note saying they’d enjoyed my essay on Shelby Foote from a few years back (an era when I was briefly interested in ‘Southern writing’, as a category including the gays Ernest Mickler, Cal Yeomans and A...
The New York Times and Me
I appeared recently in The New York Times, at the end of a piece on Foucault by editor Emily Eakin, who summons me there—and at still-greater length in her new book on French Theory in America for which the NYT piece is publicity—as a right...
God-talk
I have a new essay out on theologian Miroslav Volf and poet Christian Wiman’s literary collaboration and friendship. I’ve been trying lately, with imperfect success, not to write about stuff I dislike but, as you can see, I really dislike b...
Dearest Girl
Readers may know I love Richard Howard—and that, with any number of reservations, I also love a certain Susan Sontag, especially as the author of The Volcano Lover (even if I also have a qualified, queer defense of her homophobic exhusband)...
The Politics of Taste
I have a new essay out: “Michael Denneny, Hannah Arendt, and the Politics of Taste.”
You may by this point have heard all you could want (and more!) from me about how Denneny revises and indirectly critiques aspects of Arendt’s appropriat...
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