America’s Virgil
Follow At this point, just about everyone has at least heard of Ta-Nehisi Coates. His second book, Between the World and Me, won the 2015 National Book Award. W...
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Welcome Tallahassee Democrat Readers
Follow Maybe you’re here because you just read that fine article by Doug Blackburn in the October 18 Tallahassee Democrat. Welcome to the humble blog! If ...
Zero K
Follow Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. We’ve been on a rol...
Validation is Not Just a River in Egypt
Follow Validation. Some people crave it. Some could care less. Most of us probably fall in the muddy middle, swinging willy nilly between craving and caring les...
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Jobz Are Us: The Ethical Dilemmata of the Humble Scrivener
Follow Toiling away here in the bloggy vineyard, Your Narrator finds himself in near-constant search of gainful, remunerative scribbling. Oh sure, regaling the ...
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Infinite Quest
Follow Sept 12 – David Foster Wallace died 7 years ago today. Maybe died isn’t the right word, though it’s at least partly true. He killed him...
My Favorite World #24
Follow It’s book week at MFW! Two great reads under my belt in the past few days – Walter Mosley’s Debbie Doesn’t Do It Anymore and Haru...
My Favorite World #18
Follow When I was a lad, I decided I should go ahead and plan on accomplishing three simple tasks: Read every great book ever written. Listen to every great pie...
Such a Lovely Word
Follow Everyone has a set of favorite words. Even if you’ve never thought about it, you have a go-to collection that would represent pretty nicely in a wo...
My Favorite World #8
Follow I Like Big Books and I Cannot Lie The astute follower of this blog1The use if the definite article is pessimistically intentional. will have noticed that...