January 30, 2017
La La Land, Swing Time, and Nostalgia in 2017
Perhaps now is not the best time to discuss artistic nostalgia. We have just witnessed the inauguration of a president whose campaign routinely masked bigotry with invocations of longing for […]
September 7, 2014
Nostalgia, Sentimentality, and Robin Williams. Part 1
In my office the other day, prepping for an Intro Creative Writing course, I found myself ruffling through cabinets and drawers in search of a set of notes I made […]
May 14, 2010
Things You Only See Through Other Things
Things you only see through other things (so begins at least a thousand words, over several posts, to get at the reason my girlfriend loves Cordwainer Smith). For example: Magritte, […]