In an effort to educate myself, I am reading The Oxford Book of Essays, chosen and edited by John Gross. [copies for sale here] There’s 142 of the blighters, so it will take me all year. To make this “stick” I am going to blog each essay. This essay is online Who was the author: ... Continue Reading →
Essays; “Good Manners and Good Breeding” by Jonathan Swift (18/142)
In an effort to educate myself, I am reading The Oxford Book of Essays, chosen and edited by John Gross. [copies for sale here] There’s 142 of the blighters, so it will take me all year. To make this “stick” I am going to blog each essay. This essay is online Who was the author: ... Continue Reading →
Essays; “Chaucer” by John Dryden (17/142)
In an effort to educate myself, I am reading The Oxford Book of Essays, chosen and edited by John Gross. [copies for sale here] There’s 142 of the blighters, so it will take me all year. To make this “stick” I am going to blog each essay. This essay is online, Who was the author: ... Continue Reading →
Essays; “Of Avarice” by Abraham Cowley (16/142)
In an effort to educate myself, I am reading The Oxford Book of Essays, chosen and edited by John Gross. [copies for sale here] There’s 142 of the blighters, so it will take me all year. To make this “stick” I am going to blog each essay. This essay is online Who was the author: ... Continue Reading →
Essays; “Of Charity, or the Love of God” by Jeremy Taylor (15/142)
In an effort to educate myself, I am reading The Oxford Book of Essays, chosen and edited by John Gross. [copies for sale here] There’s 142 of the blighters, so it will take me all year. To make this “stick” I am going to blog each essay. This essay is online Who was the author: ... Continue Reading →
Essays; “A Degenerate Noble” by Samuel Butler (14/142). MANY sick burns abt failsons here…
In an effort to educate myself, I am reading The Oxford Book of Essays, chosen and edited by John Gross. [copies for sale here] There’s 142 of the blighters, so it will take me all year. To make this “stick” I am going to blog each essay. This essay is online Who was the author: ... Continue Reading →
Essays; “Of Anger” by Thomas Fuller (13/142)
In an effort to educate myself, I am reading The Oxford Book of Essays, chosen and edited by John Gross. [copies for sale here] There’s 142 of the blighters, so it will take me all year. To make this “stick” I am going to blog each essay. This essay is online Who was the author: ... Continue Reading →
Essays; “On Dreams” by Thomas Browne (12/142)
In an effort to educate myself, I am reading The Oxford Book of Essays, chosen and edited by John Gross. [copies for sale here] There’s 142 of the blighters, so it will take me all year. To make this “stick” I am going to blog each essay. This essay is online Who was the author: ... Continue Reading →
Useful dystopian fiction about US breakdown – ideas? (I have three)
UPDATE - three suggestions by a whip-smart friend... Well, fiction can help us make maps of the way the world is/might be going (1). Given the long-gestating but finally arriving proper shitshow in the USA (2), it seems like a good idea to get together a fiction reading list. Without further adieu (3) they are... Continue Reading →
Sherlock Holmes short story: The Adventure of the Copper Beeches – aka “A Case of Identity” meets Jane Eyre 12/56
In 2026 I plan to read all the Conan Doyle “Sherlock Holmes” works - 56 short stories and 4 novels (here’s why and how). If you haven’t already read it, Michael Green’s “undiscovered letter” from John Watson is fricking hilarious. In January I am reading the 12 stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes collection.... Continue Reading →
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