Browsing the blog archives for January, 2010
(Crossposted at my new blog at Arcade.)
Amir Eshel has been composing a series of fascinating posts on his Arcade blog, which I presume are related to his current book project, on life after the End of History, the return of liberalism as an object of scholarly interest, and recent trends in contemporary literature. I [...]
I haven’t had a chance to write up the MLA panel I helped organize, “The Legacy of David Foster Wallace.” It was very well attended — especially for an 8:30 a.m. panel on the last day of the convention — and the talks were all terrific. Fortunately for me, Kathleen Fitzpatrick has written up [...]
My 2010 resolutions: (i) to separate myself from this diabolical device known as the Internet, which sucks up my time, distracts me from what I would at some second-order level of intelligence prefer to be doing, and doesn’t really lead to lasting learning and/or self-improvement; (ii) to turn this Web site into a real [...]
Lee Konstantinou is a novelist and postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University.
He is the author of the novel Pop Apocalypse.
He is working on a second novel and a study of irony in postwar fiction called Countercultural Capital: The Problem of Irony in Postwar American Literature
Lee Konstantinou