Author: Alex Irvine
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If This Gets Out, I Won’t Have a Job
The semester starts in ten days, and I’ll be back in the classroom teaching Writing Fiction and a great-books-style class called Homer to the Renaissance. As always, the project of the creative writing class is a little curious to me, and here’s Katharine Anne Porter, musing on one of the central problems: “Writing, in any…
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More Kafka
So a trove (maybe) of Kafka’s papers are currently being held by the 74-year-old cat-lady daughter of Max Brod in Tel Aviv. She holds onto them while everyone argues about how Jewish Kafka was and how this affects where his papers should go. I mean, of course. Nothing related to Kafka’s legacy can be normal,…
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For Me, It’s All About Lynda Carter
But there’s also a comic, and Topless Robot has a loving, exasperated list of 10 Reasons No One Cares About Wonder Woman. Me, I care.
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A Question for the Technologically Savvy
Can anyone tell me why this blog looks so weird in IE and so normal in every other browser?
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Not Your Grandfather’s Kafka
Apparently the time has come for Franz Kafka to be posthumously reinvented as an erotically supercharged bon vivant instead of the monastic depressive we all assumed we knew. What with this Times piece about scholarly interest in his pornography collection, and this (very fine) Telegraph-by-way-of-NYRB essay by Zadie Smith about what really happens if you…
Crooked House Fictions 