(whispering to my date when the tempest starts at the beginning of The Tempest) that’s the tempest

for Bookforum Magazine i reviewed a novel by lucas rijneveld, the vladimir nabokov of having grown up on a farm in the dutch countryside bookforum.com/print/3004/luc…

harry berger jr. knew how to title an academic book

he didn’t like witty observations about online culture
and i was the fucking renata adler of looking at your phone a lot

We’re posting a few new Bookforum Magazine pieces online today. The samizdat is cool though . . .

not sure about this king lear adaptation’s choice to turn it into a PSA about not looking at the sun during an eclipse

found totality in a tulip

The eclipse is a warning from god that literary studies has abandoned its proper method.

shakespeare eclipsed (by jen bervin)

ben jonson complaining about people who just toss off thoughtless opinions based on whatever they’re reading whether or not anyone wants to hear it. imagine confronting such a slurry of raw and undigested folly from random people every day

not sure i’ve ever seen the word “wrong” used this many times (12) in an academic book review

hey man they’re calling your academic monograph a “slim volume”

real excellent foppery hours on here today

academic journal articles… why don’t they have titles like this anymore?

people on twitter: what a brazen-faced varlet art thou to deny thou knowest me? i’ll make a sop o’the moonshine of you. draw, you rogue. draw, you whoreson cullionly barber-monger! draw!

people in real life: hey man how’s it going

poisson d’avril is only one letter away from poison d’avril. not so funny now is it

not again

seems insane that william shakespeare looked like this