Caretaker

Poetry - No Comments » Posted on November 26 at 8:25 pm

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On driving toward my father’s certain death

Poetry - No Comments » Posted on November 26 at 7:52 pm

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Not a metapoem

Poetry - No Comments » Posted on November 20 at 7:59 pm

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A Whale of Two Cities: The New York and London Editions of Moby-Dick

Literary Criticism - No Comments » Posted on November 7 at 9:57 am

I’m far from an expert on this topic; in fact, I’m just barely acquainted with Melville and the state of publishing in the mid 19th century, but I found this example of editing, or censorship, interesting. Warning: you should only read this paper if you really care.

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The Web is like an 8-track tape

Features - No Comments » Posted on November 7 at 9:37 am

I found this in my archive and just had to post it here. It’s a review of Internet World ’97 for the February 1998 issue of IEEE Spectrum Magazine, where I briefly contributed to a column called Websights. As I post it now almost 10 years later, I think oh my, how young and naive we were.

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