been a long time

I woke up this morning with an overwhelming sense of incompetence. I haven’t really managed to do anything I have recently set out to do: write a scholarly paper, quit smoking, clear up my library’s archives, do some job applications, keep up with this blog. It’s not like I have scads of readers out there [...]

i love philip roth

Reacting to the fact that my most recent reading choices have been profoundly unchallenging and weakly plotted, I picked up I Married a Communist at the library yesterday. I’m barely into it, but I love it already. I encounter plenty of people who don’t like Roth’s un-abashedly masculine prose. But his clean tense style reflecting [...]