BoredReading

'The Following Pages Are Frankly Bookish'

2 months ago

from Anecdotal Evidence in literature

If you're familiar with Andrew Lang (1844-1912) at all, it’s likely as a collector of folk and fairy tales. I remember as a kid reading some of his...

The Twins Join The Linguistic-Symbolic Order

3 months ago

from Astral Codex Ten in literature

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'The Bolt of Inspiration Strikes Invariably'

3 months ago

from Anecdotal Evidence in literature

“Inspiration is perhaps merely the joy of writing: it does not precede writing.” A student and aspiring fiction writer wonders why I seldom refer to...

The Shipping News

3 months ago

from The American Scholar in literature

Ian Kumekawa tells the story of the global economy in one barge The post The Shipping News appeared first on The American Scholar.

What I Read in April 2025 – Have we cherished expectations?

3 months ago

from Wuthering Expectations in literature

I should make that the new official slogan of the blog. It is from p. 614 of Finnegans Wake, one of the books I recently read. FICTION The Sword in...

Barbara “Nuggie” Schuetz-Hamid

3 months ago

from Naz Hamid in literature

Rest in peace little one. I never would have guessed that a 4-lb Chihuahua would come into our lives, let alone be the animal to steal my heart before...

Let's read Moral Ambition together

3 months ago

from The Elysian in literature

Rutger Bregman's new book is the subject of our next literary salon.

Highlights From The Comments On AI Geoguessr

3 months ago

from Astral Codex Ten in literature

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'Among Those Who Read There is Great Variety'

3 months ago

from Anecdotal Evidence in literature

Writing is famously the most narcissistic of professions, even worse than acting or being a politician. We’re forever carrying on about ourselves and...

Hidden Open Thread 380.5

3 months ago

from Astral Codex Ten in literature

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Ocean Vuong on Anger

3 months ago

from The Marginalian in literature

“To be an artist is a guarantee to your fellow humans that the wear and tear of living will not let you become a murderer,” Louise Bourgeois wrote in...

Moldbug Sold Out

3 months ago

from Astral Codex Ten in literature

"At long last, I've created the populist strongman from my classic 11,000 blog post series 'Don't Create The Populist Strongman'"

'He Lies Until the Trauma Trots Away'

3 months ago

from Anecdotal Evidence in literature

At age fourteen, our dog, if human, would be eligible for Social Security. Luke sleeps more than he did when a pup. His rear end aches and he takes...

Star Trek: Discovery

3 months ago

from The American Scholar in literature

The post <em>Star Trek: Discovery</em> appeared first on The American Scholar.

'But No One Style, I Think, is Recommended'

3 months ago

from Anecdotal Evidence in literature

A reader tells me of her disgust with most insects and reptiles, the small creatures, almost domestic, that surround us. She resents the “nature...

“Piano Fire” by Claudia Emerson

3 months ago

from The American Scholar in literature

Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Piano Fire” by Claudia Emerson appeared first on The American Scholar.

We’ve raised $50,000—now I’m writing a book!

3 months ago

from The Elysian in literature

My vision for the future of capitalism has been greenlit. Now let’s make it a reality.

Open Thread 380

3 months ago

from Astral Codex Ten in literature

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'This Is My Time and Theme'

3 months ago

from Anecdotal Evidence in literature

“I delight sensually in Time, in its stuff and spread, in the fall of its folds, in the very impalpability of its grayish gauze, in the coolness of...

Lorena Diosdado

3 months ago

from The American Scholar in literature

Multifaceted Latinx identities The post Lorena Diosdado appeared first on The American Scholar.

Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, and with Fangs: The Alchemy of Unrequited Love and the Story Behind Emily Dickinson’s Most Famous Poem

3 months ago

from The Marginalian in literature

This essay is adapted from the nineteenth chapter of my book Figuring. In the first autumn of her thirties, Emily Dickinson wrote to her confidante...

'Death, Indeed, Continually Hovers About Us'

3 months ago

from Anecdotal Evidence in literature

A high-school friend writes to ask what I remember of May 4, 1970. We would graduate in a month and go to university in the fall. The fear and...

Stalactite & Stalagmite: A Brief Illustrated History of Earth and One Great Truth about Love

3 months ago

from The Marginalian in literature

We are always either drawing closer or drifting apart — there is no stasis in relationships. The direction of movement may change over the course of a...

'It Was a Good Moment of Remembrance'

3 months ago

from Anecdotal Evidence in literature

Out of the aether after twenty-six years came an email from Mikhail Iossel: “Greetings -- and apologies for writing out of that metaphoric nowhere.”...

States of Possession: Erich Neumann on Creativity, the Unconscious, and the Psychology of Transformation

3 months ago

from The Marginalian in literature

There are things in life that come over you sudden as a flash flood, total as an eclipse — the great loves, the great creative passions, the great...

Testing AI's GeoGuessr Genius

3 months ago

from Astral Codex Ten in literature

Seeing a world in a grain of sand

'A Glass Filled With a Supersaturate Solution'

3 months ago

from Anecdotal Evidence in literature

“[S]he is one of the few truly compelling stylists now at work. Her voice is authoritative, confident, unfussy, exacting. She is never overtly...

Languages and literature - Finnegans Wake becomes unbeurrable from age

3 months ago

from Wuthering Expectations in literature

More keys. As Anna Livia Plurabelle says or thinks or dreams at the very end of Finnegans Wake, “The keys to.” She is falling asleep so...

The Abstraction Gap

3 months ago

from Naz Hamid in literature

Bridging the design-development gap as AI rises. There’s a frustrating gap in how development projects present themselves. What looks straightforward...

You Can Keep Having An Opinion Even When The Government Also Has It

3 months ago

from Astral Codex Ten in literature

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Drift

3 months ago

from Escaping Flatland in literature

Right now it is April 18 and I am walking along the steep coast at the peninsula on the Northeastern corner of our island.

'Poor Naked Wretches, Whereso’er You Are'

3 months ago

from Anecdotal Evidence in literature

Aleksander Wat (1900-67) was a Polish poet and one-time Communist hounded and imprisoned by Nazis and Soviets alike. In 1964 while visiting...

Some of the difficulties of Finnegans Wake - Two dreamyums in one dromium? Yes and no error.

3 months ago

from Wuthering Expectations in literature

I am too tired to write about Finnegans Wake which is a good state for writing about this dream novel where characters keep falling asleep. “Dream”...

Hidden Open Thread 379.5

3 months ago

from Astral Codex Ten in literature

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Related to Grief & Sadness & Supremacy

3 months ago

from Josh Thompson in literature

Introduction this post is very drafty, but has been sitting around getting longer for a few weeks now, so I’m simply posting now and will do some more...

The Populist Right Must Own Tariffs

3 months ago

from Astral Codex Ten in literature

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'Frivolous Subjects?'

3 months ago

from Anecdotal Evidence in literature

“Frivolous subjects? Well, and thank God for it, not everybody can be writing about big, so-called important issues: population, genes, semantics,...

Another You

3 months ago

from The American Scholar in literature

The post Another You appeared first on The American Scholar.

The key to Finnegans Wake - there is a limit to all things so this will never do

3 months ago

from Wuthering Expectations in literature

Over the last month I read Finnegans Wake (1939). I first read some bits of it in college, in a Norton Anthology of British Literature, and...

Chance, Choice, and How to Claim Your Life

3 months ago

from The Marginalian in literature

Only a fool or an egomaniac would deny that chance shapes the vast majority of life. The time, place, culture, family, body, brain, and biochemistry...

How we’re profit sharing on Metalabel

3 months ago

from The Elysian in literature

A financial analysis of our first cooperative media project + where we could go from here.

'Every Word Is a World'

3 months ago

from Anecdotal Evidence in literature

When someone had eaten his fill and couldn’t take another bite, my maternal grandmother, born the same year as T.S. Eliot, would say, “His sufficiency...

“Pin Pricks of Loneliness” by Etheridge Knight

3 months ago

from The American Scholar in literature

Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Pin Pricks of Loneliness” by Etheridge Knight appeared first on The American Scholar.

Two novels titled Attila - Maximal words striving to breach an angel

3 months ago

from Wuthering Expectations in literature

I will write about two newly published translations of Spanish novels that comprise an amusing stunt by Open Letter Books. They are Attila by Aliocha...

Open Thread 379

3 months ago

from Astral Codex Ten in literature

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'Opsimath That I Am in So Many Matters'

3 months ago

from Anecdotal Evidence in literature

I was a lazy student who worked hard when the task interested me and coasted the rest of the time. I dropped out of Latin prematurely because I...

AMA With AI Futures Project Team

3 months ago

from Astral Codex Ten in literature

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The Art of Befriending Time and Change: Debbie Millman’s Illustrated Love Letter to Gardening as a Portal to Self-discovery

3 months ago

from The Marginalian in literature

You may or may not find the meaning of life while pacing a flower bed, but each time you plunge your bare hands into the hummus of the Earth and run...

'A Soliloquy for Two'

3 months ago

from Anecdotal Evidence in literature

The ideally named English neurologist Russell Brain died in 1966 but his textbook, Brain’s Diseases of the Nervous System (1933), remains in print....

Coming Home

3 months ago

from The American Scholar in literature

Craig Thompson digs up memories of farm labor and the history of ginseng The post Coming Home appeared first on The American Scholar.