Samizdat Blog

A Short and Easy Commonplace Book So there I was, gently noodling my way around the internet in search of nothing in particular, when I ran ...

Rejoice, people! The latest installment of Zach Barocas' journal The Cultural Society is up online, featuring Joel Bettridge, Norman F...

What's that you say? You're a poet, you're under 40 years of age, you haven't had a book published yet, you'd like some...

I'm packing my stack of Peavy amps and Stratocasters for a world tour that is now double the size previously projected, having grown to ...

"A Scribe Turned into a Scribe," , my review of Norman Finkelstein's latest book, Scribe , is up and running at The Offending ...

Joshua Clover's 1989 has finally been given some well-deserved ink in the New York Times , where it gets about a 300-word treatment fro...

Laureates and Heretics , my new book of literary criticism, is officially out and order-able on Amazon.com. Here's the publisher's p...

It’s been just over a year since I became a father, and I can’t count the number of times I’ve been waylaid by people who want to admire the...

What’s that you say? What? You’ll have to speak up: I’m trying to set the Samizdat temporal distortion teletype to the 1860s, and I keep o...

During the months I was carting myself around in a wheelchair after my little car-vs.-bike accident last year, I turned down just about ever...

Lately I've been spending my Fridays in the dull duty of an editor, working on an edition on the uncollected English works of the late, ...

Good news! The second issue of The Cambridge Literary Review is out. This is my kind of production: essays on Hume and Hegel rubbing shou...