My blog is still taking a working vacation (meaning I'm so busy writing comments on student manuscripts that I don't have time to post right now). BUT check out the following upcoming event, organized by the Lambda Literary Foundation. BETTER READ THAN … [Read more...]

My father, who died last week, was a beekeeper. A real twentieth century do-it-yourselfer, he studied up on beekeeping and may have kept a hive or two as a young man, though not after I reached the age of memory. (I vaguely remember the punch line from a story my … [Read more...]

Baby Einsten, Etcetera Finally, and this is the second reason why phobia does not disappear but slides beneath language, the phobic object is a proto-writing and, conversely, any practice of speech, inasmuch as it involves writing, is a language of fear….Not a … [Read more...]

July 9, 2006 It occurred to me today that perhaps there can be a Calvinist Darwinism. X apparently likes to believe that “it’s all in the genes”—is this necessarily so different from believing that God has set everything out beforehand? Ostensibly, at least the … [Read more...]

6/1/06 Spoke with J.—her feeling that death is all around. S.S. died. the place of poetry is the place of death— a thought in the BBG—something confused, but—don’t we feel guilty towards the dead—for suddenly “othering” them? We drive them out of our … [Read more...]