katie kadue
@kukukadoo
foremost zucchini fritter on twitter | “endlessly quotable” | author of DOMESTIC GEORGIC @ uchicago press
i reviewed jonathan kramnick’s criticism and truth, which i take to be arguing, among other things, that close reading isn’t just for girls. unpaywalled link below
are novels written by their narrators or by the person who wrote the book? it is impossible to say and no one really knows
the concept of carl schmitt tweeting “the concept of the political”
(inviting you to an evening of discussion of quentin skinner’s works of intellectual history) bro let’s get skinnered
Far from being an aggressive reaction, irony is above all a way of questioning.
in a way all of literary history is the disavowed reheating of nachos (suddenly worried i’m reheating harold bloom’s nachos) but in a way it’s not that at all
you can’t even write 366 love poems these days without being accused of laura farming
Goethe once asked Hegel what the 'dialectic' is, and he responded very beautifully, almost therapeutically, "[it] is basically nothing but the regulated and methodically cultivated spirit of contradiction which is innate in every human being."
has any great writer been as wrong about another as virginia woolf was about milton?
some of you who pride yourselves on detecting AI writing need to admit that a lot of human writing is also formulaic, cliche-ridden, and reliant on tripartite structure—and some of it even uses em-dashes
Nothing is more important than our misunderstandings.
he actually has no conscious feelings about sonnets. he returns to the form over and over out of repetition compulsion, not love. he is entirely in the grips of the death drive
this one
Summer always makes me feel like Fritz Lang in Contempt
Summer always makes me feel like Fritz Lang in Contempt
the best cure for writer’s block is to read something that makes you really mad