archives for Monday 1 December 2008
semantic depletion
Monday 1 December 2008 | 7 cookies in the jar
Wallace thought more deeply about questions of audience and address than any other American writer of his generation. All that “insane” detail, and the formal strategies he borrowed from postmodernism (authorial intrusions, digressions, footnotes, flash-cutting between scenes and so on), were meant in fact to serve the rather traditional end of saying something about “what [...]
want to blog…can’t blog…
Monday 1 December 2008 | 10 cookies in the jar
About our glamorous 24 hours in Puerto Peñasco! About the indigo sunset, the turquoise sunrise, the tide pools, the fresh corn tortillas, the flounder tacos, the drunken shrieking undergraduates, the fireworks, and the titty bars. And the two-hour border crossing back into the US, which felt like our just punishment for being horrible gabachos, as [...]
