I was recently accepted to a PhD program I applied to at the end of last year, and as part of my acceptance, I’ve been awarded a teaching fellowship. At first I will be given only freshman composition courses, but as I gain more experience I will have the opportunity in subsequent years to oversee ...
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This week I began reading Other Colors, the collection of essays, speeches, and other non-fiction writing by the Nobel Prize winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk. It’s a fine book, not really exceptional but enjoyable enough that I continued reading past the first page. However, the good-but-not-great quality of Pamuk’s writing in this instance drew my attention ...
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What is it about Modernist Literature that makes it superior to most contemporary novels? The material. True, I find much to dislike in the stylistic trends of Post-Modernists—the derivative experimentalism, the ironic pose assumed in narration, the weird character names—but none of this is quite so offensive as the lack of depth, both in the ...
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I’m what I like to call a petty genius: I exhibit the idiosyncrasies of a great mind, without, as of yet, a brilliant body of work to justify the unqualified title. It is said that Einstein functioned on such a different mental level that he had difficulty with simple mathematics. Well, I crank out 2,000 ...
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