100 books in 2020, Big Books in 2021
My big picture reading goal in 2020 was to finally crack the 100 books in a year mark which I have been approaching for a few years. I was able to accomplish t...
Tag: Books
The Future of Collected Miscellany
The biggest motivation for me to keep this site going is the realization that social media and other distractions had undermined my ability to concentrate and f...
The Clothing of Books by Jhumpa Lahiri
A lecture turned book(let), it was nevertheless interesting to read an author's thoughts on book covers and to ruminate on their role, impact, etc. It is not s...
2016: My Year In Books
Let's take a quick look back at 2016 as it pertains to books. My year in books as it were. For this post I just want to take a high level look. In a separate...
Video: Books I Want To Read
Wherein I start video blogging and talk about two large books I want to read ...
Jonah Goldberg on writing a book
The problem, you see, is that people who don’t write books don’t know what an unending, unyielding ass-ache they are. I’d compare them to a no...
The lament of literature teachers everywhere
Via You’re All Just Jealous of My Jet Pack
Collected Miscellany at Ten Years
This Blog began ten years ago yesterday . Kinda wild to think about that. It is hard to judge your own writing output over ten years but if I had to offer a ju...