Version 6.0ish. Digital Humanities. Running. Linux.

1. Laurie Halse Anderson-Fever 1793
2. Paul Auster-Travels In The Scriptorium
3. John Barth-Further Fridays: Essays, Lectures, and Other Nonfiction, 1984 – 1994
4. John Barth-On With The Story: Stories
5. A.C. Bradley-Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth
6. Judith Butler-Gender Trouble
7. Italo Calvino-The Baron In The Trees
8. Italo Calvino-Difficult Loves
9. Italo Calvino-Numbers In The Dark & Other Stories
10. Italo Calvino-T Zero
11. Albert Camus-The Myth Of Sisyphus & Other Essays
12. Junot Diaz-The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao
13. Junot Diaz-Drown
14. Terry Eagleton-Literary Theory
15. Umberto Eco-The Name Of The Rose
16. Michel Foucault-History Of Sexuality: Volume One
17. Gary Gutting-Foucault: A Very Short Introduction
18. Homer-Iliad
19. David Hume-Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion & The Posthumous Essays
20. George Landow-Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization
21. Milorad Pavic-Dictionary Of The Khazars
22. Plato-The Symposium
23. Michael Pollan-The Omnivore’s Dilemma
24. Susan Sontag-Illness As Metaphor & Aids and Its Metaphors
25. Gilbert Sorrentino-Aberration Of Starlight
26. Robert Louis Stevenson-Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (read by TOM BAKER)
27. Bram Stoker-Dracula
28. Virginia Woolf-The Second Common Reader
29. Virginia Woolf-Three Guineas
30. Epic of Gilgamesh

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Recently read: The Uses Of Literature by Italo Calvino

This book collects a number of essays by Calvino and interviews with him about literature. Highlights include Cybernetics and Ghosts, a fascinating essay about literature, man, and the machine, the previously enjoyed The Odysseys Within The Odyssey, and a lovely tribute to Roland Barthes upon his death in 1980. References to Lewis Carroll throughout essays on fantasy and the role of philosophy and ethics in literature are pushing me towards giving him another careful examination soon.

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• Due to some monetary constraints I was unable to attend ELO 08, but Scott Rettberg posted his presentation over at Grand Text Auto. More on that soon.

• Barrett Hathcock’s essay on the Internet from The Quarterly Conversation.

• Catching up on fiction from The New Yorker: Bolano, Diaz, Eugenides, and a previously untranslated story by Nabokov.

• Seamus Heaney’s 1985 review of Mr. Palomar from the New York Times.

• Daniel Green’s review of the intriguing Lost Books Of The Odyssey.

• The New Yorker had a big piece last week on Keith Olbermann.

Meanwhile, on Twitter…

• The New Republic pays tribute to de Beauvoir.

• Terra Nova covers a promising MMO called Lila Dreams.

• Greg Palast on the preemptive theft of the 2008 election. Speaking of, maybe I should just sleep in anyway.

• My new desktop background (Kind of big and exciting casting spoilers for the finale of Doctor Who)

• Kristin Hersh has a new website.

And…

• won a big literary award in Spain.

• A member of the old New York hardcore band Ultra Violence gets a mention in The New Yorker too.

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Recently read: Why Read The Classics? by Italo Calvino.

This is a collection of brief essays by Calvino about a variety of authors and works of literature ranging from Homer to Crusoe to Hemingway to Borges. The Crusoe essay is wonderful, but my favorite is The Odysseys Within The Odyssey, which I used in a paper I wrote last year for a graduate course.

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Recently read-The Rage Of Achilles.

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Here is a short paper from a few years ago where I compare to The Odyssey.

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Project Gutenberg has archived a Nietzsche lecture from 1869. Nietzsche lectures on Homer and classical philology. Among the things the lecture focuses on is just who, or whom, Homer was:

They conceived the Iliad and the Odyssey as the creations of one single Homer; they declared it to be psychologically possible for two such different works to have sprung from the brain of one genius, in contradiction to the Chorizontes, who represented the extreme limit of the scepticism of a few detached individuals of antiquity rather than antiquity itself considered as a whole.

Nietzsche also wonders how much of Homer was actually left in The Odyssey by the time it was written down:

The name of Homer, from the very beginning, has no connection either with the conception of Asthetic perfection or yet with the Iliad and the Odyssey. Homer as the composer of the Iliad and the Odyssey is not a historical tradition, but an Asthetic judgment.

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