Index

• Homecoming
• facing the darkness of ignorance with aplomb
• Lila by Marilynne Robinson. Or saving an angry, bitter soul.
• Ars Poetica For The Ones Like Us
• The Dark Side of Sympathy
• where i’m writing from
• on the dangers of reading too often
• Ghost in Search of a Machine
• Literary Cage Fight
• why dialogue fails miserably
• apple’s “your verse?”
• The Nutritional Profile of Reading Books
• “with my best thoughts”
• wherein a disagree with rohan — 2 of 2
• wherein i disagree with rohan — 1 of 2
• why mr. interpolations blogs at all
• the music in the shrubbery
• Gone With The Dream
• Solving for X without a Why
• almost wordless wednesday
• wherein scarlett o’hara quibbles over 3K
• first one thing, then the other, and then one more thing
• “You there, varlet! Why so blithe?”
• The Nora Ephron Experiment
• a snapshot of alienation in marx
• life isn’t measured in years
• wherein life trembles like a tuning fork
• flight before the fall
• walking swiftly with intense direction like a bird flying home
• Resilience
• our nada who art in nada
• a word with you, please
• How to Dispose of a Novelist’s Body
• a brown stain on white snow by hemingway
• the pleasures and solitudes of trains
• on the power and glory of my mortal enemy
• the heart of the matter in under…
• mr. interpolations says hello to pykk
• sunday, 7/14
• a snapshot of molloy
• me & molloy, or molloy & me
• 4 reasons why burlap-covered crates are superior to refrigerators
• The Killer Angels
• totally alloyed molloy
• one thousand words by noon, drunk by 3:00
• a pony went to sea
• mister tavares’ neighborhood
• the magician behind the baron
• escargot in ombrosa, or no wonder cosimo bolts for the trees
• The Sharon in the Trees
• taking stock then plunging ahead
• wherein ishmael wrestles with invisibilities in moby dick
• Why Ishmael is all cracked up
• moby dick’s willy gets whacked
• it’s friday and i feel it in my gut
• sandy hook elementary school in newtown, connecticut
• “a whale is a spouting fish with a horizontal tale”
• wherein ishmael and queequeg affectionately say i do
• “a long, limber, portentous, black mass of something”
• Rorschach Test & Country Schoolmaster
• Loomings. Or in the beginning. Or Mr. Interpolations is reading Moby Dick again, slowly.
• The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
• Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison
• an affair with an angel
• “my tone is not meant to be obnoxious”
• Be Near Me by Andrew O’Hagan
• summiting mt. conness
• last rites in the middle of the road
• blisters on the soles of her feet
• wherein i grapple with caskets, bears and chicken hawks
• Mr. Interpolation’s original contribution to scholarship
• Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
• on incessant business prattle … oh, and disfigurement
• awash in shades of Great Gatsbyan green
• the continuous kiss of cartilaginous lips
• what can brown do for you?
• Jim Harrison, or did you know?
• a boy of summer gets curiously aroused
• what casaubon would write on middlemarch?
• wherein middlemarch is slammed shut
• why dialogue is scalped in legends of the fall
• the last great challenge of literary prose
• a girl named george
• “the moon shone clear and sweet on his face and chest”
• the vulture in the sky keeps on turning
• Harrison smells a lot like London
• Hemingway out-simples Keller on simplicity
• my hemingway is bigger than yours
• hemingway and stein gab about homosexuality
• why gottfried keller paints such excellent books
• meloy wants her simplicity and eats her complexity too
• Tinker, tinker. Tin, tin, tin. Tintinnabulation.
• True North by Jim Harrison
• 2011, A Reader’s Year in Review
• miracle on ice, glowing hands, devouring lawns
• Farmer by Jim Harrison
• why english teachers have all the fun
• Embers by Sándor Márai
• a diary bound in yellow velvet is thrown in the fire
• sweet thursday by john steinbeck
• the best opening line in cormac mccarthy
• seeing the world aright, or why schopenhauer has a magnificent head of hair
• #1 one sentence, three words, a holy trinity
• #2 colorless green ideas meaning furiously
• #3 wherein ray bradbuy, ben harper, and freud smoke a doobie (or a are-you-just-happy-to-see-me)
• #4 it was the best of sentences, it was the worst of sentences”
• mr. interpolation’s top five favorite opening sentences of all time
• “If Rawdon Crawley’s blow were not delivered, Vanity Fair would cease to be a work of art.”
• the vanity of thackeray’s fair
• wherein i greet my self from the past and am not disappointed
• masters of atlantis by c. portis
• advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket
• even c. dickens don’t always talk pretty
• why read?
• do the dewey, or did you know?
• a nasty brew of heavily steeped oleander
• wherein bellow is compared to spinoza but not joyce
• the prognostications of c. mccarthy
• visions of geniuses become the canned goods of intellectuals
• black widows hovering in space
• monday and saturday reign supreme
• stealing snatches of herzog
• while i’ve been gone
• 20 Most Useless Degrees
• When Ten Lakes Hatch
• A good entendre is easy to find
• 8 lbs 2 oz and sweet as can be
• A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Flannery O’Connor
• crazy-ass search terms
• dreams, sorrow, and bitter regret
• Foe by J.M. Coetzee
• on yates’ prose, or how to get from here to there
• Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
• wherein i say a few words about how difficult it will be for me to read books i love and say something worthwile about them
• The Easter Parade, by Richard Yates
• Reading at a Window by a Radiator
• March 17, 2010
• awakening from the uneasy dream of suburbia
• Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates
• don’t feed on me, quoth the spectre in the book
• Edith Freud & Sigmund Wharton
• a nesting doll of marks and words
• what’s it like to be a corpse?
• Song of Myself, by Walt Whitman
• a man divided has no choice but stand
• multiplying and dying, endlessly
• The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
• The Plight of Minerva
• shooting the gap between chauvinism and folly (3 of 3)
• godless chants in a divine world (2 of 3)
• Starting from Paumanok, by Walt Whitman (1 of 3)
• “Man delights not me—no, nor woman neither…”
• Little, Big, by John Crowley (2 of 2)
• Little, Big, by John Crowley (1 of 2)
• Happy Birthday, St. Thomas Aquinas
• How to lose a fond memory in 10 pages
• wherein I politely ask you for lots of gifts
• Of gods & heroes, and how to hit a Homer
• A shotgun blast of the disagreeably tedious and the amusingly pleasant
• The Mezzanine, by Nicholson Baker
• In Praise of Wharton’s Prose
• A vision of wine under the influence of a dream (2 of 2)
• Tortilla Flat, by John Steinbeck (1 of 2)
• A curious incident of mercury poisoning in a story
• November 28, 1694
• Do do, that that, and how my literary mistress botched it bad
• Found Poetry, by J. Londoneilson
• To Build a Fire, by Jack London
• An Undine by Any Other Name?
• The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton
• Ward No. 6, by Anton Chekhov (2 of 2)
• Ward No. 6, by Anton Chekhov (1 of 2)
• Solzhenitsyn’s literary bait & switch
• Haunted by the ghost of PJ present
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• So you want to get a Ph.D. in the Humanities
• Prophesying a brilliant future for a busted violin
• Gooseberries, by Anton Chekhov (2 of 2)
• Dragooning Camus through the Morass of Reason (1 of 2)
• Three windows looking on the court on the first floor
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Out Stealing Horses (3), or All the Pretty Paintings
• Out Stealing Horses, by Per Petterson (2)
• Out Stealing Horses, by Per Petterson
• A River of Dust Runs Through It
• Ethan Frome (3), or a New England Winter in Chico
• Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton (2)
• Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton
• The House of Mirth (7), or The Bed
• The House of Mirth (6)
• The House of Mirth (5), or I Love Lily?
• The House of Mirth (4), or On Four Classes of Tropes
• The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton (3)
• The House of Mirth (2)
• The House of Mirth
• In the Heart of the Country, or What’s Good for the Wood is Good for the Gander (2 of 2)
• Would that Wood were (1 of 2)
• Blood Meridian
• Crime and Punishment (2 of 2)
• Crime and Punishment (1 of 2)
• A Note about Sequels or Companion Pieces
• The Song of the Red Ruby
• Never Let Me Go, or Ain’t Got No Soul
• The Pastures of Heaven
• David Mitchell’s Master-Slave Dialectic
• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
• Netherland (8)
• Netherland (7)
• Netherland (6)
• Netherland (5)
• Netherland (4)
• Netherland (3)
• Netherland (2)
• Netherland
• The Color of Roth, or a Boy’s Mischief
• Lasso Round the Moon (3)
• Lasso Round the Moon (2)
• Lasso Round the Moon
• Quixote (2)
• Quixote
• Atonement (2)
• Atonement
• A Zoo Story
• In Search of Lost Time: A Reading Map
• Proust’s Way
• Lost Time?
• Child of God
• Riffs on P. Roth
• Black Swan Green (2)
• Black Swan Green
• Dual-Use Technology
• A Simple Soul (2)
• A Simple Soul
• The Road
• The Immaculate Conception
• A Pleasure All Its Own
• Clouds, Twisting and Twining (5 of 5)
• Clouds, Twisting and Twining (4 of 5)
• Clouds, Twisting and Twining (3 of 5)
• Clouds, Twisting and Twining (2 of 5)
• Clouds, Twisting and Twining (1 of 5)
• Gilead
• Home
• Loop’de Loop
• Tiger, Tiger Burning White
• We Grotesques (2)
• We Grotesques
• Winesburg, Ohio
• Kodak of Cloud Atlas