I wrote about why writing on Substack, though cool in many ways, is not going “indie.”
Why do so many songs present the phrase “caught in the middle” in exactly the same (musical) way? Adam Neely has a brilliant answer.
Thomas Merton somewhere talks about being thankful in a situation but not for the situation. That applies to us because my beloved has broken her upper arm and shoulder and is in much pain (and will be spending a great deal of time with doctors in the coming weeks). I have some posts queued up on the big blog, but otherwise I’ll be quiet for a while.
With Advent approaching, ’tis the season to read Auden’s Christmas Oratorio For the Time Being — ideally in this lovely edition, edited by, um, me. I’ve added a long introduction and many notes, but the poem’s the thing. I also wrote a bit about the poem in this post.
This has been a three-Blackwing job and it’s not done yet.
Excellent maps of the Divine Comedy — I wish I had come across these years ago, to use in class. (But the ones in the Sayers Penguin translation are great, even if the translation itself really isn’t.)
I never read people’s Holiday Gift Guides … except for Robin Sloan’s.