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You often hear it said in the business world “This meeting could have been an email.” Which is to say, the content of this communication was not fitting to the medium. I sometimes think, along similar lines, “This poem could have been an essay.” I

I think Chesterton is having a little fun at his own expense here.

I loved this essay about P.G. Wodehouse from Dan Brooks. Particularly this very Wodehousian line towards the beginning: Wodehouse writes like a

I think I was like 30 before I realized “The first Noel / The angels did say” meant “The very first Christmas greeting the angels gave” rather than “‘The first Noel!’, the angels said”. Q: Ok, but what did you think that “to certain poo

I posted a while back about the title of Persuasion. It seemed out of place to me. Today I happened to be looking at the Persuasion Wikipedia entry and found this helpful note:

Maurice Sendak’s work has influenced countless other writers and artists, but who influenced him? [I struggle with Sendak. Little Bear is charming, as are a few of his other works, but Where the Wild Things Are h

I just read a very nice blog post about showing vs. telling in writing. Read it first. He’s a real writer, I’m a dabbler in posting. I won’t say anything he hasn’t

The 1 1/2 year old has learned how to say his name. So now he walks around the house calling it out, like he’s searching for himself. Aren’t we all, baby. Aren’t we all.

I finished Memento Mori over my long disconnected weekend up north. Really wonderfully writing, the characters were mostly awful but in such memorable ways. I have a half baked theory that Spark is telling us each characters eterna

Shakespeare’s sonnet 30 contains the phrase “remembrance of things past”, which I assumed must have been alluded to by the title of Proust’s novel, which often goes by that name in English. But Proust originally titled it À la recherche du tem