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• Edmond Rostand and the Fantasticks
  A link on Terry Teachout’s blog to a super-rare full-length kinescope recording of The Fantasticks from 1964 brought back lots of memories for me, and not just ancient ones, because I’ve seen this great Off-Broadway musical at least eight times, most recently only a few years ago with my kids. It’s a musical comedy about …
• Revolt on Mount Parnassus: An Allegory in Copy/Paste
  Introduction PARIS – AUGUST, 1870 – An incorrigible, horrible genius. A fifteen year-old! disembarks at Rue de Maubeuge. A concussion of uncombed hair infested with a plague of lice. Soiled clothing. A homicidal cupid with the enormous hands of a strangler. A smarmy smirk, perfect skin, a beautiful terror with cherub lips and a pernicious …
• A Reader’s Manifesto
  I was recently watching a movie where, yet again, the dorkiest and most ineffectual character in the story is also the only one seen reading a book. This character is an all-too familiar type. I’m not even going to tell you what movie I’m talking about, because I can think of 20 others to take …
• Cruelty, Revolution, and Deviance: Rimbaud and Artaud as Ideology Critique
  “We have faith in poison. We will give our lives completely every day. FOR THIS IS THE ASSASINS’ HOUR.” — Arthur Rimbaud, “Drunken Morning” “The revolution was in his poetry from the beginning and to the end: as a preoccupation of a technical order, namely to translate the world into a new language.” — Herbert …
• Glimpses
  It’s a new year and a new universe (because, let’s face it, the universe is always changing, and always new) … and I’m now writing with a new name. So I thought I’d reach for something familiar and easy and tell you briefly about what I’ve been reading and enjoying lately. Here are three things …
• Unto this Last: John Ruskin’s Economic and Political Writings
  John Ruskin was deeply concerned about the plight of the working class of his time, which suffered under the harsh conditions of the Industrial Revolution.
• Hervey Allen, Edgar Allan Poe and the Creepy Scribblings of Bernhart Hobbins
  (Please welcome a debut Litkicks piece by Michelle Glauser, who runs her own blog and describes herself as “a Mormon chocolate-lover who studied English at the University of Utah and American Studies at the University of Leipzig in Germany, where I focused on women’s autobiographical writing and wrote a master’s thesis on mommy blogging”. — …
• From Contradiction to Cartoon: Reflections of Napoleon Bonaparte
  In about four months we’re going to hear a few news blips about the 200th anniversary of Napoleon Bonaparte’s final defeat at Waterloo, which went down on June 18, 1815. It’s a good guess that the tone of these news blips will be apathetic and comical, that few attempts will be made at serious understanding …