February Digest!

Fun stuff

One for all the Ed Heads out there

Listen now (55 min) | I thought I would break things up a little and talk about a book I like. More than — or maybe just along with — being a really funny novel that everyone from high schoolers on up read and enjoy, “A Confederacy of Dunces” says more about…

St Patrick’s Day!

I got a twitter

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Listen now (29 min) | The first Chieftain request!

A Monstrous Digest of Prose!

Hi everyone. It’s a relatively short review this week, just the one (long) review. I’ve actually been thinking about changing my schedule here. I know I just introduced some changes last January. But I’m thinking about how best to write. I’d like to write…

Listen now (43 min) | Hello all! In this episode of Reading in the Time of Monsters, we are joined by Quinn Slobodian, professor of the history of ideas at Wellesley College and author most recently of “Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of…

Hello! I’m still figuring out some formatting stuff, how many reviews I’m going to do going forward as I try to do more long-form writing, etc. Here’s some notes on what I’ve been reading! Maybe I’ll include some in future on what I’ve been writing… also…

Hello all! I am still working out my work processes. I am reading, and thinking about how to go forward with writing. I’m doing some rethinking about the structure of my main fiction project, a novel about people living in a society created by the upheavals…

Cinco de mayo?!

Lots of talk about novels

Wanna know what I think about JKR? Step right up

Hello! Pretty good review- an election, some reading notes, and my essay this time is about my fiction work in progress. I can’t serialize the story, because I might try to publish it. But I can talk about what I’m doing. Hopefully it’s of some interest!

Hello! Welcome to this week’s Melendy Avenue Review. I don’t have a ton of critical stuff today, because I’ve been doing a lot of fiction writing, and I include some discussion of what’s going on there. New readers might want to look at the previous installment

Hello readers! I’ve been plugging along. Reading, writing. Some of the stuff I’ve been reading are series that I want to write essays on once I finish, some are stuff for podcasts or other projects that you’ll hear about in time. Fiction is plugging along.…

Listen now (57 min) | Great book, lousy ending

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