If I still lived in northern Illinois I would surely cheer for ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ against ๐ฒ๐ฝ โ but here in central Texas I think the power of neighborliness will shift my allegiance. Sunday will tell. Gonna be FUN.
Iโve updated my home page with a link to OUPโs page for my biography of Dorothy L. Sayers, now scheduled for publication on 28 November. Iโll add other options for pre-order as they become available. I had a lot of fun writing this and I think youโll enjoy it also. Iโm pleased that, in a series whose books average about sixty bucks each, OUP priced this one for a broader readership.ย
In which I write about the greatness of Baird Whitlock and the power of the movies.ย
There will be a series of these in the coming weeks (during which Iโll have little time to write): posts adapted from a book proposal that neither my agent nor any editor I talked to was interested in. Maybe I should use my big blog exclusively to post rejected book proposals. I have several. It looks like Iโll be going to my grave not having written any of the books I had most hoped to write โ because if I want to do it, the rest of the world is indifferent to it. This is the unbreakable rule.ย
Here’s a post on why an argument about how humanists’ defenses of the humanities are bad is itself a worse argument than the ones it critiques. I’m gonna have to write a follow-up to this but … not soon.
Substackโs decision to turn itself into a social network has been successful in at least one sense: With a few exceptions (Austin Kleon for instance), Substackers only link and respond to other Substackers. For people deeply invested in that platform, Substack is the internet. Theyโre living in a tightly constrained world that they think is vast and open.ย
