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Poor Little Nell! Poor Little Paul!
Now reading: Dombey and Son. Here’s a nice 21st-century take on Dickens: Dickens the Assassin with a Heart of Gold. In his outline for this book, in his notes for the very first part, Dickens w… more →
The Ambiguities
Poor Little Nell! Poor Little Paul!
willhansen2 wrote 1 week ago: Now reading: Dombey and Son. Here’s a nice 21st-century take on Dickens: Dickens the Assassin … more →
Good Country People?
willhansen2 wrote 8 months ago: Just finished: The Bible Salesman. The first Flannery O’Connor story I ever read was “A … more →
DeLillo, DFW, and Places of Mortal Drama
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willhansen2 wrote 1 year ago: I’m in Austin, Texas right now, attending a symposium at the Harry Ransom Center entitled … more →
The Great White Shark of Pain
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willhansen2 wrote 1 year ago: Now reading: Infinite Jest. Remember The Raw Shark Texts, that book I told you to read a couple of m … more →
The Murakami Book and What to Call It
willhansen2 wrote 1 year ago: Now reading: The Raw Shark Texts. A cat is one of the three main characters in this book. The main c … more →
Archives, Libraries, Epistemes, and Eccentric Organization
willhansen2 wrote 1 year ago: Just read a terrific issue of the Believer, no. 50 (behind, I’m always behind). Three essays, … more →
Odin's Revenge
willhansen2 wrote 1 year ago: Just finished: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. One last brief note on Gibbon’s book. … more →
Western Devils, Eastern Devils
willhansen2 wrote 1 year ago: Just finished: The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. One of the more interesting sections of Mandevill … more →
Nabokov's Games
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willhansen2 wrote 1 year ago: Now reading: Invitation to a Beheading, by Vladimir Nabokov. Okay, that’s a lie: I finished th … more →
