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Wet Spaghetti
At the Harman Writer-in-Residence lecture at Baruch College on March 24, George Packer, who became well known through his reporting for the New Yorker on the invasion of Iraq, spoke of turning his...
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Oh the Humanities!
Students at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964. The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today’s vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They’ve got to...
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If there’s not enough time, I could just cut to the chase: the scene is at risk without context. *** As I write this segment of my blog entry, I’m on a train returning to New York City from a...
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On Haunting and Inhabiting
The Docks, Port-au-Prince, Haiti (1921), NYPL Digital Collections The past is present on the internet. Specters of the past, particularly those that are marginalized or ignored in traditional...
View ArticleOn Disorganizing and Reorganizing
(Or, “8 Things That Listicles Tell Us About Process”) If I begin with a list, I’m about to start a project— maybe tonight’s dinner, tomorrow’s trip, a draft, or a revision. “This is what I need to do,”...
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On gravitating and levitating (part one)
I’ll begin with a passage from James Joyce’s “The Dead” to illustrate reading as an embodied experience in movement: “Her voice strong and clear in tone attacked with great spirit that runs which...
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On the matter of numbers
Mindful of other deadlines, I finally applied pressure to my felt-tipped pen while in transit, on a quiet Sunday morning subway-car. I felt unsuited, ill-prepared, to start writing. No notes to work...
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