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There's still time to get tickets to part 3 of my @interintellect.bsky.social reading group on Virginia Woolf's MRS DALLOWAY, which will meet tomorrow 9/24/25 at 7pm EST. Sign up here: interintellect.com/salons/book-....
Book Club: Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, Part 3
Our reading selections are based on the page numbers in the recent New York Review of Books edition. The entire text can also be found online at Project Gutenberg. Because the novel does not use chapt...
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September 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Still some spots available for my @interintellect_
reading group on Virginia Woolf's MRS DALLOWAY, starting this Weds 9/10 at 7pm EST online. interintellect.com/salons/book-...
Book Club: Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway: Part 1
"Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself."Our reading selections are based on the page numbers in the recent New York Review of Books edition. The entire text can also be found online at P...
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September 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Join my @interintellect.bsky.social reading group on Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, starting 9/10 online and access a 25% discount on the 100th anniversary editoin, thanks to the fine people at @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social! Tickets here: interintellect.com/salons/book-...
Book Club: Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway: Part 1
"Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself."Our reading selections are based on the page numbers in the recent New York Review of Books edition. The entire text can also be found online at P...
interintellect.com
August 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Join my @interintellect.bsky.social reading group on Virginia Woolf's MRS DALLOWAY and access a 25% discount on the 100th anniversary edition thanks to the fine people at @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. Tix below interintellect.com/salons/book-...
Book Club: Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway: Part 1
"Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself."Our reading selections are based on the page numbers in the recent New York Review of Books edition. The entire text can also be found online at P...
interintellect.com
August 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Join my @interintellect.bsky.social reading group on Virginia Woolf's MRS DALLOWAY and access a 25% discount on the 100th anniversary edition thanks to the fine people at @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. Tix below interintellect.com/salons/book-...
Book Club: Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway: Part 1
"Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself."Our reading selections are based on the page numbers in the recent New York Review of Books edition. The entire text can also be found online at P...
interintellect.com
August 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Join my @interintellect.bsky.social reading group on Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, starting 9/10 online and access a 25% discount on the 100th anniversary editoin, thanks to the fine people at @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social! Tickets here: interintellect.com/salons/book-...
Book Club: Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway: Part 1
"Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself."Our reading selections are based on the page numbers in the recent New York Review of Books edition. The entire text can also be found online at P...
interintellect.com
August 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I will be reading poems live online for @interintellect.bsky.social on March 30 at 7pm EST. Information on how to obtain your free tickets below! interintellect.com/salons/shore...
Shorelines: A Poetry Reading
Join Paul Franz live for a reading from his poetry collection in progress, followed by a brief Q&A on the craft of poetry and his process. Please enter the coupon code 34MAGcEW to waive the bookin...
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March 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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P.S. if any of you think this work is worth $5/$6 dollars a month (and can afford that), you can help support my work by subscribing as a paid subscriber to the substack. I appreciate anyone who reads what I write, and also appreciate any financial support!
February 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Summary of the Musil-Mann Relationship:
genesegrill.substack.com/p/mann-and-m...
Mann and Musil, Continued
The Great Man of Letters and his Worthy Rival
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February 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Note also that subscriptions are currently 50% off--forever--until the end of Feb.
February 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
On Substack, a new translation of the Choral Ode to Eros and Aphrodite from Sophocles' Antigone. ashesandsparks.substack.com/p/eros-and-a...
Eros and Aphrodite
Choral ode from Sophocles' Antigone
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February 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
On Substack, I wrote about the English WWII poet Keith Douglas. ashesandsparks.substack.com/p/an-instrum...
An instrument forged in semi-darkness
The war poetry of Keith Douglas
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November 13, 2024 at 12:34 PM
What did Rachel Cusk learn from D. H. Lawrence? Find out in my recently published scholarly article. Also features an interlude on the unexpected Lawrentianism of Beauvoir's The Second Sex, an important mediator (I suggest) for Cusk's reading of DHL. www.academia.edu/111131611/Th...
The Persistence of the Archaic: Rachel Cusk as Reader of D. H. Lawrence
Adopting an intellectual-historical approach, this paper examines Rachel Cusk's career-long interest in the writings of D. H. Lawrence. Focusing on Lawrentian themes in the memoirs A Life's Wo...
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December 20, 2023 at 1:21 PM
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My new piece on Osamu Dazai in The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
The Ironist and the Exhibitionist: On Osamu Dazai
The Japanese novelist’s dark-hearted comedies are at once unhinged and brilliant.
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October 24, 2023 at 6:47 PM
My new piece on Osamu Dazai in The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
The Ironist and the Exhibitionist: On Osamu Dazai
The Japanese novelist’s dark-hearted comedies are at once unhinged and brilliant.
www.thenation.com
October 24, 2023 at 6:47 PM
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September 28, 2023 at 9:11 PM
Stray thoughts on Ellul, on the history and philosophy of science as a scholarly discipline, and the authentic early links between scientific universalism and empire--as seen by Christopher Marlowe's Dr Faustus.
October 1, 2023 at 1:17 PM
September 28, 2023 at 9:11 PM
What are the rest of you waiting for? Subscribe now at ashesandsparks.substack.com.
September 27, 2023 at 8:02 PM