Jan Mieszkowski

I taught this about 10 years ago. I think it went over quite well, as I recall.

Pleased to have a piece in this new volume.

"He thought that he had learned patience, but he had only lost impatience."
–Maurice Blanchot, Awaiting Oblivion

Spent most of the day in an online symposium – 6 excellent papers and a cool roundtable discussion of texts by Hemingway and Hans Christian Andersen.

Exactly. I tell them: "Overreading? We aren't even close to getting out of the realm of underreading!"

What are students taught in high school such that they worry that the most basic exegetical move may constitute "overreading"?

(There's a newer version in Crises of the Sentence, but this should probably do.)

Don’t you know that "No" is the wildest word we consign to Language?
–Emily Dickinson

I dwell in Possibility -
A fairer House than Prose -
More numerous of Windows -
Superior - for Doors -

Book Botany

#Mood

I was going to try to guess what sort of software it might be, but then you gave it away.

Sigh.

Furcht vor der Nacht, Furcht vor der Nicht-Nacht
-Franz Kafka, 18 Okt. 1917

The Ruins of Nostalgia – Wesleyan University Press New work from one of the most compelling and transformative writers of the contemporary prose poemWhat is it to feel nostalgia, to be skeptical of it yet cle...

Recommended!

It’s a genre?

“Sound film as the limit for Kafka’s and Chaplin’s worlds.”
–Walter Benjamin

Read Jan Mieszkowski's "Uncommon Senses, Uncommunal Retractions: The Give and Take of Language in Franz Kafka's Der Proceß" in @mlnjournal.bsky.social on @projectmuse.bsky.social!

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TFW you realize that the bookstore categories have passed you by.

Required seminar wear.

Reading between the lines.

Sure, I'd like to be added.

I just bought the Virtual Sentence and I literally can’t wait for it to arrive!

Nice to see that someone got up early to poster campus.

Has anyone said L'Avventura?

You Could Use the Exercise In the face of AI, the time is right to practice our writing techniques for invention and surprise.

A review of The Virtual Sentence, eight writing exercises by Kyle Booten, D. Graham Burnett, Brian Dillon, Jeff Dolven, Jan Mieszkowski, Sally O’Reilly, Mónica de la Torre, and Elena Vogman.

One of my favorite spots anywhere.

Google's default description of WB is great.