My father in Christ really knows how to put the spiritual pressure on.
I am unusually sensitive to loud and abrasive sounds, so I am particularly interested to see how sound design can contribute to calm environments (or, more often, contribute to my misery).
The great John Fuller writes about Auden’s Shield of Achilles. He’s not quite persuaded by my argument about the organization of the book, but he’s not dismissive either. The main point here is how good the poems are.
I wrote about what a bad writer Freeman Wills Crofts is, but basically I just wanted the chance to use the phrase “Fang Apparatus.”
In the new Hedgehog Review I write about the best book — by miles — yet written on Terrence Malick. 🎥
David Thomson: “This is the great American film about the highest artistic dreams leading you to madness.” 🎥
Finished reading: Lonely Magdalen by Henry Wade. A remarkable Golden Age detective novel that starts as a police procedural, then around halfway through turns into a social novel about events from twenty years earlier — then becomes a procedural again. It reminds me in several ways of Ian McEwan’s Atonement. 📚