Unsplintering
September 12, 2024
Seeking to corral some of the scattered parts of myself, I’ve decided to consolidate various locations for my writing and bring everything together here at
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For older writings, see the archive of my blog The Mumpsimus (2003-2023)
This page also includes posts originally published at my academic and pedagogy-focused blog, Finite Eyes (2018-2024)
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Happy (Belated) Birthday, Robert Aickman
July 27, 2024
June 27 was Robert Aickman’s birthday, but I missed it. I was busy somehow. I’m often late to people’s birthdays. I don’t think Aickman minds
Commonalities
July 11, 2024
Though best known as a novelist, Virginia Woolf wrote more words of nonfiction than fiction. Her nonfiction oeuvre spans six dense volumes of collected essays,
Woolf’s Offenses
July 9, 2024
In June 2019, I traveled to Cincinnati, Ohio for the International Virginia Woolf Conference, which that year had a theme of Woolf and social justice.
Pride and Fall: Joel Lane, The Blue Mask, and Healing Imagination
June 18, 2024
Late in Joel Lane’s 2003 novel The Blue Mask, a character discusses his favorite books by Jean Genet: “I often think his scenarios are built
Queerly Covered
June 6, 2024
On Facebook, the wonderful writer Marlon James made a quick post about the difference between American and British book covers, noting, “As my British publisher once
Contemplating Pride
June 3, 2024
Pride Month feels more important than ever because attacks on queer people in the United States and around the world feel more virulent than ever.
New Interview on Open Access Publishing
May 29, 2024
A new interview with me has just been published by the Open Book Collective (which I just typed as Open Book Coolective — also true!). My
Blackwood’s Greenwood: “The Man Whom the Trees Loved”
May 17, 2024
Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) is best known today for two short stories, “The Wendigo” and “The Willows”, both considered among the best works of horror, supernatural, or weird
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