Today Dom introduced me to a new podcast called Word Nerds. One of the regular features is a rude word of the day. Today’s was “troll.” They explained that “troll” is currently used to describe a person who...
Random House’s official site for Dorothy Dunnett’s Lymond Chronicles, some of my favorite books. Interesting study questions, not that I’m likely to find many people to discuss these books with. My college buddy Claudia introduced...
“Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand.” -Mark Abley
In his article, “God & Bertie Wooster” Joseph Bottum, one of my favorite contemporary poets and commentator on literature, explains why Wodehouse is a necessary antidote to Nietzche and all other ailments fo the modern waste land...
A critique of postmodern literary theory.
Dressing up old ideas in post-modern clothes
Download the mp3s here Surprisingly enough (to me) this was at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Two very good lectures and also a good two-part panel discussion where Pearce’s cockney sounds quite fun next to the other prof’s...
