Samizdat Blog

It is good, at certain hours of the day and night, to look closely at the world of objects at rest. Wheels that have crossed long, dusty d...

Since returning more-or-less unscathed from the MLA convention in Philadelphia, I've been spending mornings kicking back with a couple o...

For the second year in a row, I’m inspired by Mark Scroggins and Steve Evans to list the books I've read over the past twelve months. I...

A few years ago I found myself running late for dinner with my wife, parents, and friends in Paris. As I came careening gracelessly around ...

The Sunday Poetry Series, run by Okla Eliiott, is predicated on a good idea: re-presenting poems that have already been published. And I...

This guy's good. It takes me 80 minutes to do this in my theory of literature seminar.

“The movement conservatives of our time seem the heirs of the French rather than the American Revolution.” &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp ...

[Warning: this post is much more about me and my life than my usual posts are. I don't blame you if you want to go read something else....