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

I gotta level with you

Hello! I’m still working on that project. Have a podcast and an election! ELECTION Which work of Serious Nonfiction should I read next? Farrell Dobbs, “Teamster Power” (1973) - Legendary Trotskyist teamster organizer Farrell Dobbs continues his story of the…

Lucky numbers

Listen now | This is a big one! One my literary heroes, John Dolan aka Gary Brecher aka The War Nerd comes onto RITTOM to discuss Rick Emerson’s “Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries” and the broader…

Happy Bastille Day!

Sorry folks

Listen now (85 min) | On this episode of RITTOM, we talk with Russian historian Kevin Murphy about his Deutscher Prize-winning book, “Revolution and Counterrevolution: Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory.” Since the Russian Revolution and its descent…

Hello! Busy times in the Petersphere. I have much to contemplate! But I do have “content.” CONTENTS Reading Election: Graves vs Pynchon vs Rizal Reading Essay: The Decadents and Me ELECTION Hey! Vote for which fancy literary novel I should read first! You…

Prose time!