Samizdat Blog

You know me, people: I like to hole up in my study and paw through the pages of obscure texts in solitude as much as the next soft-handed, g...

Bewildered by what happened on Wall Street? Furrow that brow no more. The Samizdat Blog financial research team has figured it all out. I...

No, the late Robert Duncan hasn't risen to walk among us (although it sort of looks like he's thinking about it in the photo above, ...

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...