A bit shocked to see The New Yorker (yes, The New Yorker) use “titular” to mean what some of us still call “eponymous.”
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A bit shocked to see The New Yorker (yes, The New Yorker) use “titular” to mean what some of us still call “eponymous.”
I started in on “The Waste Land” last April on my morning walk and stopped close to the end of “The Burial of the Dead.” Keep going?
The application deadline for this Assistant Teaching Professor job in our Creative Writing program at Arizona State is December 5! Please apply, if you're interested, and please feel free to pass it along to anyone who might be a great fit.
How can I not have known about, not have read, Walter Benjamin's essay "Unpacking My Library" before now? Exquisitely resonant as I sit amidst stacks of books on a rainy afternoon.
On Friday December I'm doing two events in NYC: Conversation about the Iliad with Brooke Holmes and Emily Greenwood, Remarque Institute, 12.30-2, and talk/ q&a at the Greek Consultate/ Theodore's books, 4pm. All welcome.
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Sunday morning
Thrilled to see that the Iliad, in my iambic pentameter translation, is a Time Book of the Year, along with 99 other tempting books. I hope Homer is happy about it too.
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