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A Breather
So, last Saturday, I was sitting on a street corner at 3rd and Jackson, typing some notes into my MacBook while I waited for some friends to arrive; the cafe I had been working in had just closed, so I...
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Latent Productions, incorporated
Even though I’m vigorously pounding out The Dissertation these days — which will be subtitled “Maureen O’Sullivan totally pwns Joseph Conrad” — a bunch of stuff that I did or worked on before The Great...
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“It has been fully contained, but it is not yet extinguished”
“Residents in Richmond. North Richmond and San Pablo. Are advised to shelter in place. Go inside. Close All windows and doors. Turn off all heaters. Air conditioners and fans. If not using the...
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Tarzan’s White Flights: Terrorism and Fantasy before and after the Airplane
In honor of Gilad Sharon’s statement, yesterday, that the point of attacking Gaza is a barbaric display of dominance, ”A Tarzan-like cry that lets the entire jungle know in no uncertain terms just who...
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Published Elsewhere!
Last week, Jacobin ran my review essay of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, entitled Lincoln Against the Radicals. And today, Inside Higher Education ran my article critiquing Clay Shirky’s advocacy of...
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I can’t be bothered to demand that MLA abolish itself
I like the MLA and I enjoy job interviews; I like seeing old friends, and meeting new ones, and I enjoy talking about job interviews with them. Complaining about the MLA is always a good bonding...
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Everything is Different Now, maybe, or not
I asked twitter what counts as “post-9/11″ American literature, with or without the “American.” This is what they and I came up with: Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent (1906) Don DeLillo, The Names...
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2012
I’ve been posting most of my online writing to the New Inquiry these days–with a handful of exceptions–but since people still hitch me to the post of ye old wordpress web-log, I’m re-posting my ZZ’s...
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New Stories
(This is a rough version of the introductory talk I’m going to give to my first class today; I’ve written it out as a kind of mental rehearsal of what I want to talk about, though in the class itself,...
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Kofi Awoonor’s “Had Death Not Had Me in Tears”
Had death not had me in tears I would have seen the barges on life’s stream sail. I would have heard sorrow songs in groves where the road was lost long where men foot prints mix with other men foot...
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Sunday Reading
Kitabet: Maps of the End of the World “The earthquake that swallowed up the Sodom of the West Indies, and an aftershock that regurgitated one lucky merchant” Ebola in (Anthropological) Perspective...
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