Kurt Vonnegut: “A Man Without a Country”
Vonnegut’s sardonic charm and open-handed critical wit are turned all the way up in this brief collection of short essays and observations, personal curiosities and writing advice. Worth the stay!
From Chevy to Ford
“Okay. Well, I’m just gonna say that your popular media inspired me to a new level of decadence. I mean, I’m like a Darkseid MMA version of the WWE. You know the word ‘turpitude?’”
Edith Wharton: “Summer”
Wharton’s hotter take on Ethan Frome is also far more nuanced, with a resolution worthy of much debate.
William Covino: “Magic, Rhetoric, and Literacy”
Covino’s thoughtful overview of the history of rhetoric does more than merely parallel empiricism’s relationship with magical thinking; it reveals blind spots in the awareness of each.
You- A Shadorma
More poetic forms that did not appear in Unwoven. Here is a brief shadorma, an older poem from Spain, here transplanted to a Michigan September.
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