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Back from Austin, covered in glory. Or maybe that's barbecue sauce. Be that as it may, I bring you the following observations about th...

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"What," you eagerly inquire, "was your favorite moment from the 20th Century Literature Conference in Louisville, Archambeau?...

Back (earlier than planned) from the Louisville conference, to which I've been going for a decade or more. Distilled from those many ye...

I'm escaping from Chicago and heading south, first to get my literary groove on in Louisville at the 20th Century Lit Conference , and t...

Back when I was an obnoxious, dismissive, egomanaical dipshit of a grad student, I used to love hanging out in the O'Shaughnessy Hall co...

Having seen this very blog and the old Samizdat site singled out for praise, I wish to state that while I am not worthy, I'm not turn...

You remember the theremin, right? The musical instrument developed by electronic music pioneer Léon Theremin in the 1920s? Most of us kno...

Since I'm planning on heading down to Myopic Books for Gabriel Gudding's reading on the 12th, I thought I'd have a look at his...

The latest issue of the Notre Dame Review has made landfall in the nearby harbor, and from the hold of that mighty vessel come poems and pr...

Even after all these years, the beginning of a new semester always smacks me upside the head a little more than I expect it will, and I'...

Since I've been getting a lot of hits from subscribers to Crain's Chicago Business , which mentions this old entry, I'm repostin...