“I have never heard directly from a librarian who has found bacon in a book:” Jennifer Scheussler is hot on the trail of a salty sweet urban legend.
“It’s like the mesmeric spell of Time Code, ticking away the movie’s life, and yours:” David Bordwell on the ancient and mysterious prehistory of bugs.
“My wife and I [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 8, 2009
The Squared Circle
January 5, 2009
Eminence Grise
I attended three large scholarly conferences this past season: The American Studies Association meeting in Albuquerque (by invitation), The Modern Language Association meeting in San Francisco (by accident), and the American Historical Society’s meeting in New York (by misadventure).
There were extraordinary insights and nervous candidates, “spirited disputes” and nodding heads, plenary sessions a-plenty and ill-considered [...]
