A Note on Chekhov
Reading a friend’s draft introduction to his book on Chekhov, I made this note: Once Garth St. Omer and I were comparing favorite writers and discovered that we both were keen on the Russians and Faulkner. I was surprised. He said, “It’s understandable because we also come from a pre-industrial society moving quickly and late…
From the Notebooks
One of the tasks I have is to “narrate my work” with posts or tweets of about 100 words. I’m kind of working this out here and probably overthinking all of it as usual. I did manage to scribble down some notes about each day in physical notebooks. I write in notebooks a lot, and…
Priorities
I was an undergraduate at UCSB’s College of Creative Studies, a student of Marvin Mudrick, when I realized that the study of literature was something you did for a lifetime and that the study of literature was reading, talking about it with other readers, and writing. Reading what? Everything. In grad school I began to…
Halfway Tree 