Hate the River-Rat!
Illiterate, suspicious, intensely clannish- blond, and usually ugly, river-rats make ideal bootleggers.
Category: Literature
How to Write for Surfer Dudes
I've learned how to write for the online public. I feel cheap and used, but it's kinda funny.
Carting Away Hobbits
Gardeners came by arrangement, and removed in wheel-barrows those that had inadvertently remained behind
Faulkner, Foote, Percy, Percy, and Kauffman, P.C.
A snapshot of the southern literary tradition in the early 20th century
Solzhenitsyn Saw Cancel Culture
Robert Wagner at The New Criterion, writing about Solzhenitsyn's The Red Wheel.
How to be a Good Agrarian
Agrarian advice from Michael Jordan.
The Tolkien Companion
St. Martin Press released a Tolkien dictionary . . . a year before The Silmarillion came out. Ouch.
George MacDonald: Grandfather of Middle Earth?
No George MacDonald, no Tolkien, no Narnia, no Thursday (and no Harry Potter?).
Who is This Ennui Guy Anyway?
Reinhard Kuhn (the author of The Demon of Noontide: Ennui in Western Literature) defined ennui as “the state of emptiness that the soul feels when it is deprived of …
Do You Want to Be a Writer?
Revisiting a 1938 classic about the art of writing. It's a bit artsy, but edifying and even spiritual.
Dostoyevsky’s Mock Execution
The whole thing was orchestrated, but the radicals fell for it. One, says Gary Morson, “had his hair turn white; a second went mad and never recovered his sanity; …
Chesterton: Journalist?
He landed that weekly column gig in 1905 and would do it for over thirty years, publishing over 1,600 columns. They paid him 350 pounds annually (which would equal …