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blogocentrism

Assaying Essays

Notes on Nostromo

About me

Location	Hamden, CT, United States
Introduction	In the early 1980s I lived in Philadelphia, operated Gypsy Press and edited Poetry News; in the mid 1980s I studied at the University of Delaware, graduating in 1989 as a Dean’s Scholar in Art History and Comparative Literature; in the early 90s, I studied Comparative Literature at Princeton on a Mellon Fellowship, earning my doctorate in 1994 with a dissertation on "supreme fiction” as an aspect of the novels of Joyce, Proust and Pynchon; in mid-90s I was a post-doc and instructor at Yale; in the early 2000s into teens, I continued teaching at Yale, including composition courses, Forms of Narrative, seminars on Ulysses, and on Gravity’s Rainbow in Context, and published some academic essays (notably on the Fausto Maijstral chapter in Pynchon’s V.); in 2006, I began blogocentrism, in 2009, reviewing and a film column for the New Haven Advocate, published “The Use of Ulysses” in the New Haven Review, 2011, where I edited nonfiction until 2019 and review CT theater, especially Yale Cabaret from 2010-20; in 2014 I published a critical study of the career of Bob Dylan: American Troubadour; in 2019, I returned to easel painting after a layoff of 20 years.

Location

Hamden, CT, United States

Introduction

In the early 1980s I lived in Philadelphia, operated Gypsy Press and edited Poetry News; in the mid 1980s I studied at the University of Delaware, graduating in 1989 as a Dean’s Scholar in Art History and Comparative Literature; in the early 90s, I studied Comparative Literature at Princeton on a Mellon Fellowship, earning my doctorate in 1994 with a dissertation on "supreme fiction” as an aspect of the novels of Joyce, Proust and Pynchon; in mid-90s I was a post-doc and instructor at Yale; in the early 2000s into teens, I continued teaching at Yale, including composition courses, Forms of Narrative, seminars on Ulysses, and on Gravity’s Rainbow in Context, and published some academic essays (notably on the Fausto Maijstral chapter in Pynchon’s V.); in 2006, I began blogocentrism, in 2009, reviewing and a film column for the New Haven Advocate, published “The Use of Ulysses” in the New Haven Review, 2011, where I edited nonfiction until 2019 and review CT theater, especially Yale Cabaret from 2010-20; in 2014 I published a critical study of the career of Bob Dylan: American Troubadour; in 2019, I returned to easel painting after a layoff of 20 years.