Recent Posts

• Things Need to Be What They Are
• The War on the Humanities: Humanists are the Weak Flank
• The Traditional Defenses of The Humanities are Dead, and Everybody Knows it. A Humble Suggestion in Support of Humanities Education (Part 2)
• The Traditional Defenses of The Humanities are Dead, and Everybody Knows it (Part 1)
• There’s a War on Science, Too
• Recommended Article: Scott Samuelson’s “Why I Teach Plato to Plumbers”
• Manhattan is Losing its Bookstores, But Not its Sense of Delusion
• Mainstream Publishing Industry “Products” Are About to Get Even More Awful
• Yes, of course writers should be paid for their work. Here’s why that’s not going to happen.
• Risingshadow.net Guest Post
• Why I Plan to Read a Book about Capitalist Fiction
• About Leda
• My last post concerned a crime against the humanities; this one concerns the expected demise of Barnes & Noble
• A Keen and Crankish Rant on a Crime Most Foul Against the Humanities
• Is Writing a Dying Profession?
• The War on the Humanities has Three Fronts (Part 3: Artists Themselves)
• The War on the Humanities has Three Fronts (Part 2: Higher Education)
• The War on the Humanities has Three Fronts (Part 1: The Right Wing)
• Hey, Karen – whatever happened to Point Of Ares?
• Easter Morning
• What Was the First English Word?
• Why We Read Strangers
• And the winner is . . .
• The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey; and A Most Pleasant and Diverting Contest
• The Groundhog’s Epiphany
• A Spell to Attract Attention
• Intimations of Immortality (via my dog)
• Why do writers stop writing?
• What the moon told me the serpent told Eve when she fell to earth.
• Don’t read this blog post. Read this: Linds Redding. “A Short Lesson in Perspective.”
• Only Another Writer Will Get This (and, yes, that is a pun)
• The Dream of the Rood: This is a joke, right?
• Do you sport a fake British accent? If so, why?
• Make Yourself Holy
• Why I Haven’t Posted in Over Three Months; Writers and Time; and Some Useful Advice
• Well, yes, as a matter of fact, it is the MFA programs
• I’m shocked! Shocked! Serious novels lack cultural relevance!
• Buy books. Refuse to read them. Impress your friends.
• Something like this really happened.
• Triad
• Sic transit gloria mundi.