Browsing the blog archives for February, 2007

My 2007 Stanford-Berkeley Proposal

in A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers, Jerry B. Jenkins, Left Behind, Tim F. LaHaye, postirony

I’m posting the abstract that I submitted for this year’s Stanford-Berkeley Conference, which will be held at Stanford. This paper, when I write it, will become part of my third chapter, on Dave Eggers and McSweeney’s.

How to be a Believer: Comparative Ontologies of Tim F. LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins’ Left Behind (1995) [...]

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On Zadie Smith’s "On Beauty"

in On Beauty, Zadie Smith, postirony

I finished reading Zadie Smith’s On Beauty this morning for a reading group that I’m helping to run. I have a sort of mixed reaction to the book. On the one hand, it’s perfect for the argument that I am making in the introduction to my dissertation, which begins with a careful reading [...]

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All Hail the Great Google

in personal, writing

Howdy from dissertation-land, folks. Life is going along quite merrily. I’m writing a draft of my introduction and my trendspotting chapter–both are going well, I think–and I’m doing a bunch of other non-academic things: watching TV (since you’re curious: Battlestar Galactica, 24, Heroes, I Love New York); revising the draft of [...]

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