Henry Darger much?

I read this article in the Star-Ledger.

I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but I have a bias towards local papers. I think people who live in New Jersey but who read the New York Times instead of the New Jersey paper are super-lame. I also think it's super-lame that Swarthmore distributes the New York Times instead of ( Read more... )

I've been reading a lot for my classes but unfortunately not writing enough ( Read more... )

Well, today was a monumental day for my personal reading history ( Read more... )

Friday: I returned a total of 23 books to the library. The person behind the Circulation Desk said "It must feel really good to return all of those ( Read more... )

I am almost done with Lord Elgin and the Marbles for my Orientalism paper. I read it in bed for about an hour, then took a nap, then ran around doing interviews for the Daily Gazette (I talked to Professor Kuharski for over an hour), then translated a riddle for Old English, then skimmed some articles on J-Stor about said riddle, then felt guilty ( Read more... )

If you want to hear about a willful misreading that puts Menocchio to shame, you should contact me sometime. Just provide a punching bag ( Read more... )

Yesterday the only substantial reading I did was a ten-page segment of Mein Kampf for my German Studies class.

Then I went out and beat up some Jews.

Just kidding. But it strikes me that Mein Kampf is an interesting book to discuss both in terms of its potential persuasive power and in terms of its iconographic power over time. Our professor ( Read more... )

Dear Regulars ( Read more... )