I’d thought about titling today’s post “Zenyatta! Zenyatta! Zenyatta!” in a craven attempt to boost my blog’s Google rankings, but, well, I lost my nerve. I’ve now used Zenyatta’s name four times in my opening two sentences, however, so we’ll see what happens. For those of you unacquainted, Zenyatta is this year’s horse racing phenom: [...]
[The second of a three-part posting, republishing an essay that first appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education last September.--KD] Neil Young’s 1975 album Tonight’s the Night is the middle of three albums known as “the ditch trilogy,” made when Young drove himself into a deep, dark emotional ditch after the huge commercial success of [...]
Monday brought the news that the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin has acquired the papers, and a selection of the library, belonging to the late David Foster Wallace. David was on the faculty of Pomona College, where I teach, from 2002 until his death in the fall of [...]