As I ride the fence between lower and middle class with my all-but-dissertation resume while police pepper-spray protesters and Sylvia Nasar critiques Marx, I realize that I have been reading Dostoevsky's intersections of social strata for two months. Like my dive into Kittler a couple of years ago, my summer reading was compelled by an… Continue reading Dostoevsky Dive
Tag: fiction
Magnum Opus
I did not remember Charlotte's magnum opus, although I learned this word from her when I was a child reading E. B. White's Charlotte's Web. I thought her great work was her love for Wilbur expressed in the words she spun ("RADIANT," "HUMBLE," and others) that protected him from being slaughtered. Today, I aspire to… Continue reading Magnum Opus
Ars Arvole 