From Elisa Gabbert’s Title TK: Another quality I dislike in titles: a rhythmic sing-songiness, as in Then We Came to the End. All the Light We Cannot See. I Know This Much Is True. (Wally Lamb used the exact same three-foot iamb pattern twice: The Hour I First Believed.) These titles are suspiciously regular in …
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Another quality I dislike in titles: a rhythmic sing-songiness, as in Then We Came to the End. All the Light We Cannot See. I Know This Much Is True. (Wally Lamb used the exact same three-foot iamb pattern twice: The Hour I First Believed.) These titles are suspiciously regular in their meter. I distrust them. …
(via Writing in Cafés: A Personal History – The Los Angeles Review of Books) Source: lareviewofbooks.org
(via The ‘Product of Its Time’ Defense: No Excuse for Sexism and Racism – The Atlantic) Source: The Atlantic
The British technology journalist Ian Betteridge is credited with the adage “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.” I want to make a similar claim: Any question at the end of an essay can be answered with the word yes. (Same goes, most likely, for poems, short …
Around the time of QUANTULUMCUMQUE, he summed it up to me thus: ‘Francis Bacon the painter said, “What I really want very, very much to do is the thing that Paul Valéry said, ‘To give the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance.’” And I think that’s why the things I do are usually so …
Ted Cruz accuses Mitch McConnell of ‘flat-out lie’ in rare Senate floor attack (via Margery Allingham: ‘A thriller is as precise as a sonnet’ | Books | The Guardian) Source: theguardian.com
What we’ve been watching (and reading)
In response to Michael’s post of recommended films, here’s my list of the various media we’ve been ingesting (movies, TV, books, performances) the last several months. Not all are enthusiastically recommended. But maybe you will get a sense of what I like and don’t like, and can then judge whether to trust my appraisals. This is one …
(via Two Cheers for the Middle Ages! by Eric Christiansen | The New York Review of Books) Source: nybooks.com
(via (no title)) Source: flipbookshow.wordpress.com
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