Brian K Goodman
@briankgoodman.bsky.social
Teaching lit at ASU, just wrote this: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674983373
(w/ Lukács plinth in the entryway!)
January 28, 2026 at 7:15 AM
(w/ Lukács plinth in the entryway!)
Also, “the cult of specificity is a drug you take in a cheap arcade” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
Andrew O’Hagan · Issues for His Prose Style: Hemingway
The cult of specificity in Hemingway is a drug you take in a cheap arcade: lights flash on the old machines and a piano...
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December 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Also, “the cult of specificity is a drug you take in a cheap arcade” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
I kind of love the ‘69 translation. Also, Michelle Woods is great on this stuff.
November 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I kind of love the ‘69 translation. Also, Michelle Woods is great on this stuff.
I write a lot about what Balint calls the "curatorial Roth and his public literary citizenship" in my book:
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
The Nonconformists — Harvard University Press
How risky encounters between American and Czech writers behind the Iron Curtain shaped the art and politics of the Cold War and helped define an era of dissent.“In some indescribable way, we are each ...
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October 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I write a lot about what Balint calls the "curatorial Roth and his public literary citizenship" in my book:
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...