I drew a picture of a man with a hat.

Virgil Has Departed, Do Not Weep Yet

(I put together a little academic-ish essay in order to be systematic with my McCarthy habit. I tried to keep it under 2000 words, which means it’s not as thorough as it could be, but it should hold water.) An Analysis of Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree As It Regards Dante’s Use of Allegory by Seth Wieck […]

A poem I wrote wound up in the liner of an album.

The Holiness of Hobbitry

Bernthal’s monograph demonstrates that the growing attention to religion in Tolkien studies has not only rectified misreadings of his work but also promoted deeper understanding of it. Discerning the holiness of hobbitry discloses that Tolkien’s Catholic sacramentalism shaped fundamental convictions about language, society, and human responsibilities toward one another and their fellow creatures. Belief that […]

Lena Dunham’s Inviolable Self by Alan Jacobs | Articles | First Things

I wait, with all the patience I can muster, for another Jane Austen. Lena Dunham’s Inviolable Self by Alan Jacobs | Articles | First Things

If art, even popular art—especially popular art—were simply a repository of an era’s wishes, to be matched beat for beat with its time’s psyche, it would not be art. It would be, well, a Comment, or an op-ed piece, with all the necessary fatuities of its kind. Adam Gopnik http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/four-kinds-of-opinion-pieces-i-will-not-read?mbid=social_twitter

Robert Crawford, “Thread”

wesleyhill: My faithHangs by a thread.It always has.No pointSpending longGoing over itWorrying,Will it snap?Will it go?Is it the wrongKind of faith?Better just to take itAnd sew.

…In a really basic way the words “God” and “Tree,” at different times in my life, became suddenly insufficient. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to see those things as two of my antecedents. I became desperate for a more meaningful encounter with both of them, which for me typically means new language. I wanted […]

[spotify id=”spotify%3Aalbum%3A3nT6KSqGMRP9JxPx60uRbm&view=coverart” width=”500″ height=”580″ /] At some point in the near future I’ll stop posting stuff about Ryan Culwell’s album “Flatlands”. But in the mean time, you should listen to it here. Listen like a 1000 times, so he’ll draw a royalty check. Or buy it here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/flatlands/id964081806 Rolling Stone says: …startling moments — the places […]

Ryan Culwell’s Flatlands

Ryan Culwell’s “Flatlands” turns five years old next week.