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Anchored in the bay where all men ride?
A response to Daniel Oppenheimer, Blake Smith, and John Pistelli on Dave Hickey's The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty and Other Matters, edited by…
Apr 23
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December 2023
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An interesting observation by one of my parents—why do babies have trouble falling asleep, whereas non-human animals do not seem to have this…
Dec 29, 2023
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October 2023
Invite your friends to read ashes and sparks
Thank you for reading ashes and sparks — your support allows me to keep doing this work. If you enjoy ashes and sparks, I would be immensely grateful if…
Oct 3, 2023
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In a recent Writer’s Diary, Matthew Gasda writes: Modernity convinces us that there’s a means to control everything in our lives; that there are…
Oct 3, 2023
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September 2023
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The Technological Society, Ellul’s major book, is tedious, but its vision is not without power. Of particular force in it is his resolute emphasis on…
Sep 30, 2023
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Style, which often portrays itself as the most sophisticated level of literary production is in fact the most instinctual, the most connected with…
Sep 28, 2023
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In soft September, at slow, sad Michaelmas
Sep 11, 2023
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Paul Franz
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August 2023
A vindication of writing that shears it of its idealisms
On Louise Glück’s Marigold and Rose
Aug 31, 2023
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Paul Franz
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Strange light. Hot, but no haze. You could see for blocks and blocks. No haze, but clouds. It was bright, but also dark, like before a storm. Everything…
Aug 29, 2023
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Whitman’s line, that he “receiv’d identity by my body,” seems to me very true. What else can explain our sharpening sense of our son, of his personality…
Aug 21, 2023
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Haze looking down toward Keele and Bloor from the little hillock of the park—a brown haze. Melancholy intersection, late at night, swaddled in fuzz…
Aug 18, 2023
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(A postscript to the foregoing.) It is to be understood that, in reclaiming the letter as genre, I assert the right occasionally to be jejune.ashes and…
Aug 15, 2023
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