The Magical Humanist
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An Apology for Difficult Fiction
William Faulkner, presumably chortling to himself as he composes sentences designed to torment future generations of English majors.
I. It’s impossible to be someone on Substack who writes on books and literature and not constantly encount...
Orson Welles and the Masses
Orson Welles holds the cast of The War of the Worlds for six notorious seconds of dead air.
Please note: parts of this essay have been cannibalized from a blog post I wrote in April 2017.
I. I’ve been going down something of an Orson Well...
It’s the Process, Stupid
Pages of Kepler’s calculations.
I. Launching into the term this past week, I delivered introductory framing lectures in all three of my classes. In Popular Culture, I did a representative analysis of “Livin’ on a Prayer”; in Southern Gothi...
The Mercator Presidency: Lake America Edition
WARNING: the final part of this essay contains spoilers for season four of Succession.
It’s tempting to say that if anybody has a right or reason to be pissed off with Donald Trump’s idiotic attempt to rename Lake Ontario, it’s me. I was b...
Once Upon a Time (Not So Long Ago)
Guitarist Richie Sambora and singer Jon Bon Jovi in the video for “Livin’ on a Prayer" (1986).
I. Why study popular culture? When I teach it, this is the question I raise at the outset of the semester. I’ve already outlined in a recent ess...
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I'm an English professor, specializing in contemporary American literature, popular culture, SF, weird fiction, and fantasy.
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