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Notes on "Darkness On the Edge of Town"
Author’s note: I missed the 45th anniversary of Darkness on the Edge of Town. I’d been kicking around a couple of vague ideas about that album for a…
Dec 27, 2023
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P.W. Coulson
August 2023
Stray Thoughts, 8/23/23
the product of a fragmented mind
Aug 23, 2023
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P.W. Coulson
More Stories Are the Answer
responding to the limitations of individual works of art
Aug 1, 2023
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P.W. Coulson
June 2023
Doomer Op-Eds and the Decline of Man
some speculation on why this stuff keeps getting published
Jun 21, 2023
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P.W. Coulson
February 2023
Knowing and Knowing Of
personal history re: cultural community
Feb 3, 2023
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P.W. Coulson
January 2023
Minimal Selfhood, 1984–present
topics include Christopher Lasch, psychoanalysis, 100 gecs, Steve Bannon, bad social media documentaries, and the Hat Man
Jan 12, 2023
December 2022
Macherey and Literary Analysis: Further Reading
I promised in a footnote to “The Replacement-Level Novel” that I would say a few words about Pierre Macherey. He has had a long and multi-faceted…
Dec 18, 2022
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P.W. Coulson
The Replacement-Level Novel: Notes Towards an Investigation
Revised June 24, 2023 for phrasing, coherence, and citation accuracy; revised June 27, 2023 to clarify a point about Great Books programs. I’ve often…
Dec 11, 2022
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P.W. Coulson
Some quick agenda items
housekeeping post, feel free to ignore
Dec 11, 2022
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P.W. Coulson
November 2022
La recette ne fait pas le chef
this is written in English, I promise
Nov 30, 2022
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P.W. Coulson
August 2022
Grammar, Usage, Mechanics, and Style
a hill I will die on—sorry, "a hill on which I will die"
Aug 13, 2022
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P.W. Coulson
July 2022
Quick Fixes for Academic (and Other Formal) Writing
mostly relevant to the humanities, FYI
Jul 24, 2022
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P.W. Coulson
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