I can’t quite believe this is happening, but it is:

I love the German title of Lasse Hallström's Chocolat (2000), which presumes that audiences don't know what chocolate is: "Chocolat – Ein kleiner Biss genügt"

Pliny the Elder: now this is what I call writing

“Sein äußeres Leben bestand in einer Reihe von Unfällen, die großentheils hervorgingen aus ungezügelten Leidenschaften.“

I have a big new essay out that argues that Erich Auerbach is the crucial figure for historicist reading in lit studies today + argues that the epistemology of such reading depends on the profoundly humanist criterion "sufficient passion" muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Its interesting that in the late 90s there was a market for reprints of the most obscure and convoluted books by Jack Kerouac—Schwartz’s in Milwaukee would stock them all—and they’ve mostly gone out of print since then, titles like Satori in Paris or Doctor Sax.

Musical and literary amnesia: every one of these genres has medieval roots and was widespread in the early modern era, but there is a tendency in literary studies to credit their invention to Bürger and Goethe and leave it at that.

Yeah, in the next two months I will be

Altamont 1969: descended into violence
Waldeck 1969: descended into discussion

It just does not get any better than this

R.I.P. Béla Tarr. In 2011, I ran into him wandering outside, wearing a black shirt in the blinding sunlight on Hollywood Boulevard, moments before the Turin Horse screened at AFI Fest.

Sociopath who edits an entire book manuscript using the Del and Ins keys

Oh wow I have GOT to read this one

2 hour big budget “In the Penal Colony” adaptation with “Sloop John B” needle drop when the credits roll

When can we get fully AI-generated Google Maps that gives us slightly different street layouts each time?

In the next four years we will see the emergence of premium subscription-based “human GPT”, a personal assistant who will text you back at all hours of the day and pretend to have snappy answers for anything you ask

I am hereby copywriting the novel/story/song title “God Will Never Notice”

My band’s new EP is out on vinyl now

flashlightfaces.bandcamp.com/album/under-...

Interesting/encouraging to see local candidates connecting (a) the surge of energy prices for consumers to (b) the unregulated data center boom, (c) the environmental threat it poses and (d) government divestment from renewable energy

Getting burned out on “literature as utopia,” “literature as a way of imagining things being otherwise,” going back to “literature with really really good visual descriptions”

Lol we have the #1 trending song on Amazing Radio UK

Happy to see music I’ve made get played here and there on internet & FM radio this past month, so here it all is again:

lnk.to/underthehammer

paulbuchholz.bandcamp.com

Private Anarchy - Northwestern University Press European social theorists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries tended to define modernity as a condition of heightened alienation in which tr...

I write about Krasznahorkai in the conclusion of my book:

nupress.northwestern.edu/978081013664...

Song I recorded in London this summer is getting repeat play on the radio in the UK, starts at about 1:49:00 www.mixcloud.com/brian-player...

Evan Evans, Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards (1764)
#Wales #Literature #English #language

This is my band, I wrote & sang the songs, and it was recorded at the best studio in all Atlanta.