Another Perishing Protocol
Blogger turned off support for FTP publishing last night. Another vanishing technology – serve me right for getting nostalgic about mailboxes.
Everything Unfinished
Everything Unfinished is a literary blog out of San Francisco, by James Warner.
The Magic Darkness of the Mailbox
Paul Auster's The Locked Room brilliantly evokes a writer's relationship with his mailbox.
Susan Palwick’s The Necessary Beggar
The Necessary Beggar makes it clear what Palwick thinks a Christian attitude to homelessness, healthcare, and immigration would be.
Haruki Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase
The novel is filled with such analysis-defying brilliances. “In the aquarium of my memory, it is always late autumn.” What's not to like?
Melancholy Inscription Anecdotes
Anything to do with Disch gets me down nowadays.
Understatement and Overstatement
To Californians, England is a culture of understatement. To the English, California is a culture of overstatement. But from a more global perspective, both cultures are rather on the understated side of things.
Dehaene and Proto-Letters
In Reading in the Brain, Stanislas Dehaene asks “What does a macaque do with the brain areas that we now devote to reading?”
J.M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello
It's exhilarating to find a novel in which such incommensurate world-views as Afrocentrism, veganism, and Catholicism are debated intelligently.
The Everetts and the Pirahã
I just read Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes, a book by Daniel L. Everett about his time with the Pirahã (pronounced pee-da-HAN) tribe in the Brazilian Amazon.
InsideStorytime BREAKDOWN
Events, tax day humor, and more.