…  Eight Poets Recommend New and Recent Titles | On the Seawall: A Literary Website by Ron Slate (GD) . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…   Letters to Isobel: an unpublished Larkin correspondence | Catherine Butler - Academia.edu . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it ...

…   Siris: Scotus Day . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Poet and selfie pioneer: Philip Larkin's photographs offer 'a new perspective' - BBC News . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) The pictur...

…  Jenny Diski interview: 'The mediocrity of fiction is really to do with feeling cosy’ | Books | The Guardian . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) ...

…  A Cowboy Life in Poetry - The American Interest . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

... Mary Gaitskill and the Life Unseen

...And the persistence of Stoner  (a great book, by the way)

... How Proust's 'madeleine moment' changed the world forever

…  Female student pens scathing review of 'rape culture' for college course | Washington Examiner . Read the whole thing . As St...

…  What defines good writing? | OUPblog . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I liken good writing to fluent speech, i.e., the kind of ordinary speech th...

…  Even Worse Than We Thought by Julian Barnes | The New York Review of Books . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) At Jedwabne, the death toll is imposs...

The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love. — Julian of Norwich , born on this da...

…  Yale Student Shrieks At Prof For Denying Her 'Safe Space' | The Daily Caller . (Hat tip, Ed Champion.)

…  The Novels of John Fowles: A Reassessment by Ted Gioia . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Fowles best works still dazzle. And they seem just as ...

…  A Poetic Morality Tale That Still Haunts - WSJ . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…   Bryan Appleyard — Mary Versus Marcus . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I think you get out of a book only as much as you bring to it. I first r...

…  The Simple Art of Murder: Albert Camus (crime writer?) born on this date in 1913 . I remember quite well when the news came over the ra...

…  Bryan Appleyard on Twitter: "I now feel that this poem by Les Murray is one of the best arguments for Christian belief I have ever r...

A person’s task is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover through the detours of art, and the ways of the soul, and the thoughts...

…  Zealotry of Guerin: The Banquet (Magritte), Sonnet #269 .

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in who...

… When Naïve Realism Collides with Postmodernism - Cross-Check - Scientific American Blog Network . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) If superstring th...

Hello,  M y name is Carolyn Nelson and I am searching for Editorial Assistant or other related positions in the Philadelphia area. I am a...

…  The Need To Believe: Where Does It Come From? : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the ...

…  A Humument, Victoriana Reimagined | Quadrapheme . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Phillips has said that “serendipity is my best collaborator”, an...

…  Video: Forgotten Dylan Thomas poem - 'A Dream Of Winter' in full - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

…  The Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith, review: 'unstoppable individuality' . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden. )

…   La Casa de Colores: A Project from Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera (The Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress) . (Ha...

…   Breaking Up Isn’t That Hard To Do | BREVITY's Nonfiction Blog . Are we to presume that the phrases with lines through them indicat...

…  Was poet Francis Thompson the real Jack the Ripper? | Daily Mail Online . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Come on, folks. Whoever it was, got awa...

...and the liberal arts. From The Bowdoin Orient .

MAKING POEMS THAT LAST –  November-December 2015 A POETRY WORKSHOP WITH LEONARD GONTAREK While there’s no guarantee you’ll become the next R...

…  A plea for clemency| PEN American Center . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

…  Frieda Hughes:'I was 14 when I discovered my mother committed suicide' . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.) When the journalist called, she ...

…  The Simple Art of Murder: Cold Wind by C. J. Box (Putnam, 2011 ) .

…  First Listen: Bob Dylan, 'The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12' : NPR . ( Hat tip, Dave Lull.) The end results...

…  Bob Dylan, Christian Anarchist | The American Conservative . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Nonetheless, they detect a Minnesota accent and anarc...

…   Christopher Ricks on TS Eliot’s greatness—and his “ugly touches” | Prospect Magazine . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…   Paul Davis On Crime: Secret Agents, From Babylonian Tablets To James Bond: How Ian Fleming’s Series Reflects The Real Spy World .

…   Guy Fawkes, Call Your Office . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) So there we have it: the drive for a Catholic confessional state that would have m...

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. — Will Durant , born on...

... My 2.5 Star Trip to Amazon's Bizarre New Bookstore

…  No Planning Necessary - WSJ . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) “Far more than we like to admit, the world is to a remarkable extent a self-organizi...

…  Stanford professor and eminent French theorist René Girard dies at 91 . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  The Simple Art of Murder: True Crime -- 4 November 1928 .

…   GLOBAL COOLING: Decade long ice age predicted as sun 'hibernates' | Science | News | Daily Express . When can we start laughin...

…   The TLS blog: Translation and the case for pragmatism . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) …  C handler noted in particular how a collaboration betw...

…  Relativity v quantum mechanics – the battle for the universe | News | The Guardian . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) What emerges from the dust-...

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world. — Michael Crichton , who died on this date in 2008

... The transformation of David Brooks

…  Devoted American pilgrims move Jeeves, Bertie Wooster and Blandings Castle to Seattle | Books | The Guardian . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Few...

…  The Man Who Brought Zombies to America —  LRB blog . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Episode 141 – Francoise Mouly .

Recall the Gospel of Matthew: when Jesus was arrested in the garden of Gethsemane, Judas Iscariot had to point him out because the soldie...

A brown oak leaf drops In his lap, and he wonders If it's an omen.

Start thy writing!

…   Eating Nonfiction in Flagstaff | BREVITY's Nonfiction Blog .

…  The State of Criticism . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I write about books of poetry that I think I are worth bringing to people's attentio...

…  The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2015 Winner | Samuel Johnson Prize . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by hi...

... Celebrating 20 years of brilliant women’s fiction

... Amazon opening a brick-and-mortar bookstore

…  Wittgenstein’s forgotten lesson | Prospect Magazine . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Bacon causes cancer? When pigs fly! | New York Post . Dr. Elizabeth Lund, a widely quoted expert in nutrition (she is a former research ...

Leaves all yellow now,  And so many have fallen. He sees his future.

…  Bill Keith obituary | Music | The Guardian . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I keep hearing about a supposed “hate speech” exception to the First Amendment, or statements such as, “This isn’t free speech, it’s hate s...

NOAA ignores Congressional subpoenas for data underlying newly reconstructed data set claiming global warming. Above is from The Hill; for...

…  ‘His Joy, His Life’ by Stacy Schiff | The New York Review of Books . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces no...

…  Right Man, Wrong Time - WSJ . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Warhol:  Someone said that Brecht wanted everybody to think alike. I want everybody to think alike. But Brecht wanted to do it through Comm...

…  Instapundit  —  BRAVEST MAN ON THE PLANET? Canon Andrew White: ‘Vicar of Baghdad’ on leading a church in Iraq .

In Africa, Swahili has  mama  and  baba . In the Philippines, Tagalog has  nanay  and  tatay . Fijian has  nana  and  tata . Mandarin, so i...

…  Leonard Pitts Jr.'s 'Grant Park': A page-turner that reflects on race, history . … I review a book I have mentioned a few t...

…  Sorry, kids, the 1st Amendment does protect 'hate speech' - LA Times . When the editor-in-chief of the student newspaper at Will...

…  Letter to the Catholic Academy - NYTimes.com . …  we come to the third argument, which makes an appearance in your letter:  You don’t un...

…  Light's Battered Edge: Poems: Diane Sahms-Guarnieri, Anna Faktorovich: Amazon . Yes, I have committed a blurb.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Scholem Asch , born on this date in 1880

…  Paul Davis On Crime: On This Day In History: The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes Was Published .

…  Two Iranian poets jailed and sentenced to 99 lashes for shaking hands with the opposite sex | National Post . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

…  A Lot from a Little: Demystifying the Aphoristic Poem | The Critical Flame . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

…  Taking a trip on Michael Rosen's bear hunt . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.) “We think that if our two-year-olds aren’t doing phonics, they’r...

 … A white paper drawn up by the Société de Calcul Mathématique SA: The Battle Against Global Warming . The translation refers to IPPC, wh...

My stepdaughter Gwen is visiting from Massachusetts, and will be here shortly. Little blogging until much later.

 (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Obama is right: novels show us who we are, and how others see us | Linda Grant | Comment is free | The Guardian . Like I need him to ...

…  The Education of Myself, from When Found, Make a Verse Of, by Helen Bevington (1961) - The Neglected Books Page . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…   Zealotry of Guerin: The Storm (Munch), Sonnet #268 .

…  The Myth of Basic Science - WSJ . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.) This linear model of how science drives innovation and prosperity goes rig...

…  Paul Davis On Crime: Bada Bing: Goodfellas Staging Shakespeare . I've long thought that Julius Caesar was the Shakespeare best-suit...

Feeling like you're an expert can make you closed-minded

GIANT PUMPKIN TERRORIZES PEORIA

…  John Timpane: Here Comes Everything!: WONDERS IN THE STACKS: A BOOKS BLOG: #3 .

…  At U.S. colleges, a failing grade in free speech - LA Times .

…   Mortal Remains | National Review Online . Isaiah asked why he should even bother, then? “Ah,” the Lord said, “you do not get the po...