Themes & Projects

Mysteries, December 2008–January 2009

Maritime literature, January–March 2009

Melville read-through, part I, TypeeWhite-Jacket, December 2009–January 2010

Whirlwind tour of Russian literature, February–May 2010

Epistolary literature, July 2009–June 2010

Melville read-through, part II, Moby-DickBilly Budd, July–September 2010

The Unstructured Clarel Readalong, August–September 2010

The Art of the Novella Challenge, August 2011

The bibliographing Reading Challenge, January 2011–present



Authors

Revisiting: The Dead and The Hound of the Baskervilles

Today I’ve chosen two more titles to revisit somewhat at random. I wanted to do the two Melville novellas, but I’ve been extremely busy and wanted to devote more time to them, so instead you get two (or at least 1.5) Irish writers.

Dubliners is the only James Joyce I’ve read, and while [...]

Netherland by Joseph O’Neill

In The New York Times Book Review, Dwight Garner described Netherland as “the wittiest, angriest, most exacting, and most desolate work of fiction we’ve yet had about life in New York and London after the World Trade Center fell.” And since reading it myself, I’ve been wondering what I could add to that assessment.

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