Literature
I wrote about the film The End of the Tour for 3:AM Magazine.
I can't tell if the current hype around David Foster Wallace?spurred on by the film and countless reviews and paratextual essays?is a watershed moment, or the end of something.
"The End of Something" is a weird little breakup story by Hemingway that takes place in northern Michigan. As I work on my new book about Michigan, I keep bumping into Hemingway's descriptions of the region, and I'm trying to use this proximity in unexpected ways.
The End of Airports is at the press! I'm eager to hold this book, as it really does feel like the end of an era, the end of my writing about airports (okay, probably not).
Meanwhile, the next six Object Lessons books are about to be published!
I'm very happy with how this particular batch of books turned out, and also excited to teach a class at Loyola this coming semester that considers the intellectual background of the series as well as some of the books themselves. We'll start with Jane Bennett's Vibrant Matter and Ian Bogost's Alien Phenomenology, and go from there...
- Summer Reading
reading a book set in Michigan while in Michigan This is a partial summer reading list, which appeared in slightly different form on Roy Christopher's always excellent Summer Reading post, and with one addition: Alphonso Lingis?s book Trust (University...
- Obligatory Blog Update
summer home Twitter feels more and more useful as a place to write/think/connect, but I still feel the need to update this blog from time to time. So, out of a strange sense of archival obligation, here's what I've been up to lately: I'm back...
- What I Did This Summer: Connections & Reconnections
This summer has been a series of connections and reconnections for me. I've been up in Michigan, where I had planned to work on my book on the region, which I'm tentatively calling Notes from the Sleeping Bear. But instead of writing much on...
- Up In Michigan
I'm up in Michigan again this summer, where I go to write and plan my courses for the coming school year. I grew up here, traipsing around the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. It's a beautiful place, with sand dunes and white pines, foxes...
- T-rex In The Baggage Claim; Flies On Your Body
My good friend Greg Keeler just sent me some pictures that he took in the Bozeman airport, around the baggage claim. This one made me pause: What is that T-Rex doing in the baggage claim? The easy answer: Jack Horner is a local. But on another level,...
Literature
Ends of Things
film equipment for The End of the Tour at the Muskegon Airport in Michigan
I wrote about the film The End of the Tour for 3:AM Magazine.
I can't tell if the current hype around David Foster Wallace?spurred on by the film and countless reviews and paratextual essays?is a watershed moment, or the end of something.
"The End of Something" is a weird little breakup story by Hemingway that takes place in northern Michigan. As I work on my new book about Michigan, I keep bumping into Hemingway's descriptions of the region, and I'm trying to use this proximity in unexpected ways.
The End of Airports is at the press! I'm eager to hold this book, as it really does feel like the end of an era, the end of my writing about airports (okay, probably not).
Meanwhile, the next six Object Lessons books are about to be published!
I'm very happy with how this particular batch of books turned out, and also excited to teach a class at Loyola this coming semester that considers the intellectual background of the series as well as some of the books themselves. We'll start with Jane Bennett's Vibrant Matter and Ian Bogost's Alien Phenomenology, and go from there...
- Summer Reading
reading a book set in Michigan while in Michigan This is a partial summer reading list, which appeared in slightly different form on Roy Christopher's always excellent Summer Reading post, and with one addition: Alphonso Lingis?s book Trust (University...
- Obligatory Blog Update
summer home Twitter feels more and more useful as a place to write/think/connect, but I still feel the need to update this blog from time to time. So, out of a strange sense of archival obligation, here's what I've been up to lately: I'm back...
- What I Did This Summer: Connections & Reconnections
This summer has been a series of connections and reconnections for me. I've been up in Michigan, where I had planned to work on my book on the region, which I'm tentatively calling Notes from the Sleeping Bear. But instead of writing much on...
- Up In Michigan
I'm up in Michigan again this summer, where I go to write and plan my courses for the coming school year. I grew up here, traipsing around the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. It's a beautiful place, with sand dunes and white pines, foxes...
- T-rex In The Baggage Claim; Flies On Your Body
My good friend Greg Keeler just sent me some pictures that he took in the Bozeman airport, around the baggage claim. This one made me pause: What is that T-Rex doing in the baggage claim? The easy answer: Jack Horner is a local. But on another level,...