Eric's Hangout

I should walk back (but only slightly) what I wrote in the last post about M. Vinteuil. Proust does not write that he wrote in code, but ra...

I don't think it's any surprise to semi-regular readers of this blog that I am not enjoying my slog through Proust's Remembrance...

While this could be quite a list, I guess I'll just start with a recent conversation I heard on the 22 bus.  It doesn't quite have e...

For readers who enjoyed Michael Crummey's Galore , Hard Light is the closest equivalent in his poetic output.  He has written quite a f...

Just to give myself a bit of a prod, I am listing all the posts I hope to get to in the next couple of months.  I'll cross them off as I...

I haven't thought a whole lot about the term "intelligentsia" in a while.  Stoppard puts the word in Turgenev's mouth in T...

It wasn't until I was fixing up some internal links that I realized I had actually reviewed Galore by Michael Crummey.  I guess he is ...