The latest issue of Extrapolation just came out, and it contains a great set of reviews -- not only my review of CORRODING THE NOW, but also several reviews by several folks whose opinions I'm always keen to listen to! Definitely check it out: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/epdf/10.38…

As I research Lester del Rey's biography, I'm seeing a lot about his uncle, Dr. George L. Knapp. He was actually quite a prominent public figure during his day ... and a pretty fair novelist, too. Here's his first novel, THE SCALES OF JUSTICE (1910). stratofanatic.blogspot.com/2025/07/lester…

Well hey, I sent in a reader's report to an editor last night, and today they wrote to me, "... most fun I have had reading a review - ever." I'm glad I could entertain!

Whoa. This looks like an amazing new dataset from the folks over at post .

I'll give this for Google AI: I'm currently prepping my ENGL 380: Literary Analysis class, and I asked, "What's the worst poem in the English language?" Google AI didn't even have to think. "William McGonagall's 'The Tay Bridge Disaster'", it said. One point to AI!

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This is such an issue. And what gets me aren't the academics who feel the pressure to reduce standards and cave, but the teacher who attempt to make easy A's and miniscule workloads a virtue.

Angry humanities profs be like, "Every word of my academic prose is a delicately nurtured tulip, an artistic masterpiece, and any deviation from that artful perfection will fail to convey the full brilliance of my argument."

In my class on close reading, I'm spending one day walking my students thru FINNEGANS WAKE. Super beginner stuff, of course (I myself haven't read more than 50 pages), but man.... I've been studying some supplemental materials, and I'm only now realize how hilarious Joyce is.

Looked through the responses, and NOBODY said, "Because Norse and Old English literature borrowed from the early Christian era's demonization of drakon (GR)/draco (LAT)." What do they teach kids in schools today?

Finally took the plunge: I'm beginning an "absolutely no electronics" policy in my classroom this semester. Just too much evidence out there about the negative impact it has on peoples' attentions. Just converted ALL my course links to pdfs, that students can print & bring.

Since my current open call for submissions for Forgotten Ground Regained is for (English) poems in Norse and Icelandic forms, due October 1st, I figure this is a good to tell people about some of those forms! Read this thread for a quick introduction.

Oh, easy! Um .... the 18th-century.