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Stuff from the books & long-from articles I read.

Close Reading & Psychoanalytic Listening

Close Reading & Psychoanalytic Listening

In the article Close Reading Is For Everyone, Dan Sinykin writes, So what is close reading? As my co-editor and I write in our book, “Close reading is the practice of paying attention to a passage of text to account for at least one aspect of its meaning and to

Reading so far in 2025

Reading so far in 2025

Here is a list of books I've read so far this year: * The Night in Gethsemane: On Solitude and Betrayal, by Massimo Recalcati * Red Team Blues, by Cory Doctorow (Book 1 of 3 in a series) * The Bezzle, by Cory Doctorow (Book 2 of 3 in a series)

Repetition, return, & connections becoming clear

A paragraph I enjoyed a lot from Craig Mod's TBOT. Had you told us back then, that the key to it all lay and deliberate repetition, we would have never believed you. But it's true. It's through re-walking that I've come to

TBOT: Good Sentences

Today, my copy of Things Become Other Things (TBOT for short), by Craig Mod arrived. I just read the preface, and found these sentences that I really liked: Folks here harbored their own sense of decay. The world all goin' sideways, she said, and don't know if

The Dems as HR department

I've been reading a lot about the election and why the results were what they were. Many of the articles say the same thing. Today, I read this article by Mike Pesca in The Atlantic, and I think it had a very well-put observation. I’ve been thinking

Good Text in Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

I'm reading Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. I'm enjoying it a lot. Here are some bits from the text that I like: “Always remember, mine Sadie: life is very long, unless it is not.” Sadie knew this to be a tautology, but it

Anne Carson on links & lapses

From Immaculate Imperfection Anne Carson’s Unruly Art of Renewal, which is a review of Carson’s latest book, Wrong Norma, Jennifer Krasinski quotes Carson as saying the following regarding links (i.e., associations). “The things you think of to link are not in your control,” Carson told the Paris