Tag: literature
Dos giros en el capítulo IV que me han gustado: Uno relacionado a la historia misma, empieza con el cambio de una sola letra (algo que primero interpreté como un error) y se resuelve avanzando unas pocas páginas. Y otro que juega con la redacción del texto, haciendo un cambio en la manera de narrar...
Writers Who Burned All Their Words feat. Bix Frankonis
I am a compulsive archivist, terrified of losing my words, but many of history's greatest writers asked for theirs to be burned. Kafka, Dickinson, Plath, Virgil all had their reasons. A meditation on self-erasure, ego, and the difference between the writing and the written thing, with an interview with Bix Frankonis, a contemporary writer who one day decided he needed to be smaller online, not bigger.
STORYTELLING Part One: The Neurology of Narrative
How do our brains physically process stories? The neurology of narrative transportation, brain synchrony between storytellers and listeners, biocultural theory, and Indigenous storytelling traditions that collapse Western narrative structures.
REVIEW: To be Un Poeta (2025, dir. Simón Mesa Soto)
A devastating character study of a washed-up Colombian poet who discovers a gifted teenage student, exploring the toxic dynamics of artistic mentorship, racial exploitation in the literary world, and the difference between dedication and self-destruction in the name of art.
Write Weird Shit
Dogfooding my freewriting; an experiment on why writers need to embrace the weird, unfiltered, and unconventional rather than fearing AI detection.
We’ve Known About Thomas King for Over Ten Years.
How do we reckon with Canada’s Pretendian problem?
In Defence of Rupi Kaur
The Necessary, Complicated Legacy of Canada’s Best-selling Poet
When We Get Blackheart
An Essay on Potatoes, Figs, Men, and the Truth.
THE BANANA MYSTERY
A Literary Question Across Centuries in the East
Piranesi
This was the first book I read by Susanna Clarke. I heard about it at a friend's birthday party, after someone gifted this book to the birthday person. After seeing how gorgeous the cover was, and hearing a little bit about the story, I decided to buy it!
The Island of Missing Trees
I started reading this book in June and, even though I was enjoying it, life happened and I started reading very infrequently. I feel like this is a cycle that happens every year: in the beginning of the year I read a lot, during winter, and spring. Then summer comes and I stop reading.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories
When I bought this book, I didn't notice it had "other stories" in the title. Not only does the book contain 7 other stories from Robert Louis Stevenson, but it also includes biographical and bibliographical information about the author.
O ano da morte de Ricardo Reis
Today, I finished reading "O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis" (The Year of The Death of Ricardo Reis in English) by José Saramago, while on a train from Den Haag to Eindhoven, after visiting the Portuguese embassy.
Elementary, My Dear Soundtrack
It’s no mystery that the numerous Sherlock Holmes-inspired shows and films have theme songs. We decided to investigate how good they are.
Straight Flush
The story of Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader, the greatest book series of all time that targets a uniquely captive audience. The series turns 30 this year.
The Great Gnome Fad
Roughly 40 years ago, an illustrated Dutch book about gnomes took the U.S. book market by storm—and, curiously, quickly faded out of view.
The methodology of literary taxonomy: HARKing and p-hacking
Burn After Reading
Controversial literature that lives at the very edge of the First Amendment plays an important societal role: It tests exactly what we can say.
'He doesn’t talk politics any more': Politics and Postmodernism; Morality and Metafiction; Nihilism and the Novel?
Some diagrams of Jennifer Egan novels
Publication: Review of 1Q84 in 1001 Books to Read Before You Die (London: Cassell Illustrated, 2012)
My thoughts on DT Max's biography of DFW
Weird Council: The first international conference on the works of China Miéville #mieville2012 (storify)
Conference Panel: Pynchon Now (Contemporary Fiction Research Seminar)
Keeping up with Research (in response to @PlashingVole)
"Karl Marx, that sly old racist"
Conference on China Miéville: Weird Council
Day 2 of Twenty-First-Century Literature Conference at Birkbeck
Thinking Feeling Conference at the University of Sussex
The Ontological Problems of Contemporary Fiction Studies are Actually its Ontological Prerequsites
Day 1 of Twenty-First-Century Literature Conference at Birkbeck
Contemporary Fiction Research Seminar Write-Up: Martin Amis' Money (2012-04-28)
Teaching Post-Millennial Literature: A HEA and University of Brighton Symposium
Die, Hollywood, die!
Paul Graham's Y-Combinator request for startups that will kill Hollywood has opened up a can of exploding radioactive mega-worms - and this time, they're angry. In the wake of the Internet industry's fight against SOPA and PIPA, he posed the problem: The main reason we want to fund such startups is not to protect the world from more SOPAs, but because SOPA brought it to our attention that Hollywood is dying. They must be dying if they're resorting to such tactics. [...] How do you kill the movi