Review: Freud’s Wizard: Ernest Jones and the Transformation of...
In this month’s Bookslut, I review Brenda Maddox’s new biography of Ernest Jones: Three of Brenda Maddox’s splendid biographies center on famous modernist marriages: D. H. & Frieda Lawrence, W. B....
View ArticleReview: Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated, by Carson Cistulli
In this month’s Bookslut, I review Carson Cistulli’s Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated: One of the book’s strongest features is its implicit commentary on American masculinity, especially in its...
View ArticleCollex
At the Academic Commons today, I have a post introducing Collex, a search- and tagging- tool that allows researchers to move seamlessly among most of the major 19th-century digital collections. Collex...
View ArticleRequiescat: Sterling E. Lanier
As I noted just now on PopMatters, Sterling E. Lanier died two weeks ago. If you’ve not read his Hiero novels, and you are, or have been, a fan of sf+fantasy, then doing so would make a lovely tribute...
View ArticleReview: Otherwise Normal People: Inside the Thorny World of Competitive Rose...
This morning PopMatters posted my review of Aurelia C. Scott’s Otherwise Normal People: This book delivers almost exactly what the title offers: A sympathetic, perhaps even sentimental, look at the...
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RBOC: Friday edition
Yesterday’s post at Blog of a Bookslut was later than usual, but did make it up. I’m excited about a mini-interview with Angus McLaren (author of Impotence: A Cultural History) that I’ll be posting...
View ArticleReview/Interview: Angus McLaren’s Impotence
Over at PopMatters’s Re:Print, I’ve begun what I hope will be a series of reviews and interviews highlighting work from university presses that might interest general readers. The first such post,...
View ArticlePoetry links
My weekly post is up at Bookslut. Topics include Darrell Grayson, “poetry therapy,” mathematical poems, an astronomer’s complaints about Whitman, and more. I think some interviews are likely to go up...
View ArticlePsychoSlut
Look what’s new at Bookslut this month: This month we introduce two new columns: Culinaria Bookslut, which is pretty much what it sounds like; and PsychoSlut, which hopefully is not. . . . And in...
View ArticleLand of the Lost: in which I suffer for the sake of knowledge
This weekend at GeekDad I have a “10 things parents should know” post up about Land of the Lost, which was almost no fun at all. That said, there’s always a silver lining: 10. Well, is there at least...
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