Amateur Criticism
Isaac KoldingI write about literature and how it feels to read and write it
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Fear and Self-Loathing in the Second Draft
Once, I knew a person who I, and others, found annoying. I still tried my best to be courteous to this person, and eventually they came to believe that I liked them, and confided to me that they were starting to wonder whether they were ann...
The Vanderbilt Report Seems Incompatible with Literary Criticism
This June, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported that a group of distinguished humanists had released a “Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences,” sponsored by Vanderbilt and Washington U...
What Did You Notice?
The Organs of Noticing
I love close reading, which is the act of paying very close attention to a piece of writing and noticing interesting things about it, then talking about how those interesting things add to the text’s meaning. But I h...
Not Reading
With a newborn, time changes, or at least seems to change. A day is no longer a story, with a beginning, middle and end, but a series of nested cycles: the cycles of the feed and nap, which nest inside mornings, afternoons, and evenings, wh...
Review: Ross Barkan, Colossus
“artist’s” “rendering” of dear old Teddy
Normally, one would start a book review by giving a brief synopsis of the book being reviewed. The problem with reviewing Ross Barkan’s new novel Colossus is that any synopsis that avoids spoilers w...
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