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Joseph VonWriting on literature, books, beauty, and life. Personal essays with a scholars touch.
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Too Much Hope
John Margiole, “Rawhide City billboard, I-94, Mandan, North Dakota” (1980) Library of Congress
In the latest issue of The New Yorker I came across an interesting piece in their Talk of the Town section that made me consider somethin...
Gang-stalking Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed he was being followed and conspired against for most of his life. In reading his last book, perhaps we actually are posthumously gang-stalking Rousseau. In this review of Reveries of The Solitary Walker (origi...
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If you’re wondering who I am, it’s still Joe from Von’s Bookshelf, I retired the name and moved into a new “era” of my online presence. While you’re here, if you’re new, drop a subscription. It is free, and always will be.
In the grand tra...
What a dull world if we knew everything about geese!
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“One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring.”1 Aldo Leopold wrote it better than anyone else could have.
The baby-blue sky is wispy with clouds and the world is awak...
Notes of Note #3
Just when I think I’ve got time on my side, she slips away…
I am starting to understand why folks call a PhD. a “terminal degree.” Self-diagnosed case of burn-out and time-suck. Do not let me convince you of anything, however, I love what...
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I'm an author, poet, scholar, and PhD in the making. I write fiction, essays, and reviews here and contribute at Pig Iron and elsewhere. Working on a novel. PA based. Relatively interesting. I am a myth in the making, soon to be lost in time.
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