Anthony Domestico
@tonydomestico.bsky.social
Critic and associate professor of literature at Purchase College, SUNY
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Ever Inward | Anthony Domestico
A biography of the poet Amy Clampitt shows how poetry germinated throughout her life and blossomed in a late-career flourishing.
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I wrote on Amy Clampitt’s life and work for the new issue of @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
"He laughed, but, as usual, seemed quite candid, and really to mean what he said."
- "Bleak House"
- "Bleak House"
November 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"He laughed, but, as usual, seemed quite candid, and really to mean what he said."
- "Bleak House"
- "Bleak House"
Reposted by Anthony Domestico
My piece on the late flowering of Amy Clampitt’s poetry for @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Ever Inward | Anthony Domestico
A biography of the poet Amy Clampitt shows how poetry germinated throughout her life and blossomed in a late-career flourishing.
www.nybooks.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
My piece on the late flowering of Amy Clampitt’s poetry for @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
My piece on the late flowering of Amy Clampitt’s poetry for @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Ever Inward | Anthony Domestico
A biography of the poet Amy Clampitt shows how poetry germinated throughout her life and blossomed in a late-career flourishing.
www.nybooks.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
My piece on the late flowering of Amy Clampitt’s poetry for @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
"Daily the restless men who have no occupation in life, present the appearance of being rather busy."
- "Bleak House"
- "Bleak House"
November 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
"Daily the restless men who have no occupation in life, present the appearance of being rather busy."
- "Bleak House"
- "Bleak House"
Reposted by Anthony Domestico
For the haters who say Big Fiction over-relies on allegory, my most explicit, spirited defense of allegorical interpretation. "Sociology and Allegory," published as part of a series on the sociology of literature in IASL. Lemme know if you want a PDF
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www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Sociology and Allegory
The question of the relationship between internal and external analysis of literature remains open across disciplinary inquiries. Although Pierre Bourdieu claims to offer a definitive answer to the qu...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
For the haters who say Big Fiction over-relies on allegory, my most explicit, spirited defense of allegorical interpretation. "Sociology and Allegory," published as part of a series on the sociology of literature in IASL. Lemme know if you want a PDF
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Reposted by Anthony Domestico
Reposted by Anthony Domestico
Reposted by Anthony Domestico
Utterly delightful piece by Dan Barry about catching up with a sharply dressed William Kennedy, now a spry 97 years old, at a fundraising event in Albany! He remembers his mother's excitement when FDR won the presidential election in '36. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/a...
William Kennedy, Albany’s Bard, Reads a Story With Legs
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November 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Utterly delightful piece by Dan Barry about catching up with a sharply dressed William Kennedy, now a spry 97 years old, at a fundraising event in Albany! He remembers his mother's excitement when FDR won the presidential election in '36. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/a...
Reposted by Anthony Domestico
I wrote on Amy Clampitt’s life and work for the new issue of @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Ever Inward | Anthony Domestico
A biography of the poet Amy Clampitt shows how poetry germinated throughout her life and blossomed in a late-career flourishing.
www.nybooks.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I wrote on Amy Clampitt’s life and work for the new issue of @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
I wrote on Amy Clampitt’s life and work for the new issue of @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Ever Inward | Anthony Domestico
A biography of the poet Amy Clampitt shows how poetry germinated throughout her life and blossomed in a late-career flourishing.
www.nybooks.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I wrote on Amy Clampitt’s life and work for the new issue of @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
"'Sir,' returns Vholes, always looking at the client as if he were making a lingering meal of him with his eyes as well as with his professional appetite."
- "Bleak House"
- "Bleak House"
November 13, 2025 at 11:51 AM
"'Sir,' returns Vholes, always looking at the client as if he were making a lingering meal of him with his eyes as well as with his professional appetite."
- "Bleak House"
- "Bleak House"
@paulbmoses.bsky.social on Paul Elie's latest for @commonweal.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
@paulbmoses.bsky.social on Paul Elie's latest for @commonweal.bsky.social
"Guv'ner," says Phil with exceeding gravity, "he's a leech in his dispositions, he's a screw and a wice in his actions, a snake in his twistings, and a lobster in his claws."
- "Bleak House"
- "Bleak House"
November 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
"Guv'ner," says Phil with exceeding gravity, "he's a leech in his dispositions, he's a screw and a wice in his actions, a snake in his twistings, and a lobster in his claws."
- "Bleak House"
- "Bleak House"
Reposted by Anthony Domestico
What better way to start a Friday than by listening to Joel and I talk about Mason & Dixon? on.soundcloud.com/dhLTLsFPABxW...
Episode Twenty-Eight: Mason & Dixon (November 2025)
Reading too widely and talking too seriously.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
What better way to start a Friday than by listening to Joel and I talk about Mason & Dixon? on.soundcloud.com/dhLTLsFPABxW...
Reposted by Anthony Domestico
It's been a James Schuyler day. The Manhattan sublime, from his Payne Whitney poems.
November 7, 2025 at 2:50 AM
It's been a James Schuyler day. The Manhattan sublime, from his Payne Whitney poems.
Reposted by Anthony Domestico
"I was seeing men styling, wallowing, and self-pitying, but I wasn’t seeing them reading or writing or thinking." Steve Donoghue on the vacuous, anti-intellectual world that men's magazines present to the young men who read them. open.substack.com/pub/stevedon...
Go Read, Young Man
Why Esquire needs a Books editor
stevedonoghue.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"I was seeing men styling, wallowing, and self-pitying, but I wasn’t seeing them reading or writing or thinking." Steve Donoghue on the vacuous, anti-intellectual world that men's magazines present to the young men who read them. open.substack.com/pub/stevedon...
My conversation with Brandon Taylor for @commonweal.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
My conversation with Brandon Taylor for @commonweal.bsky.social
In case you missed it ...
My October column for @commonweal.bsky.social on Hester Kaplan's "Twice Born" and a new genre: the critic's daughter's memoir.
www.commonwealmagazine.org/domestico-cr...
www.commonwealmagazine.org/domestico-cr...
Do Critics Make Good Parents?
How does the life of the critic, which demands both vulnerability and authority, translate into the life of the father?
www.commonwealmagazine.org
November 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
In case you missed it ...
My October column for @commonweal.bsky.social on Hester Kaplan's "Twice Born" and a new genre: the critic's daughter's memoir.
www.commonwealmagazine.org/domestico-cr...
www.commonwealmagazine.org/domestico-cr...
Do Critics Make Good Parents?
How does the life of the critic, which demands both vulnerability and authority, translate into the life of the father?
www.commonwealmagazine.org
October 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
My October column for @commonweal.bsky.social on Hester Kaplan's "Twice Born" and a new genre: the critic's daughter's memoir.
www.commonwealmagazine.org/domestico-cr...
www.commonwealmagazine.org/domestico-cr...
A conversation with Brandon Taylor about his new novel, "Minor Black Figures," and lots of Catholic stuff for @commonweal.bsky.social
www.commonwealmagazine.org/learning-zola
www.commonwealmagazine.org/learning-zola
Learning from Zola
Brandon Taylor's latest novel, 'Minor Black Figures,' examines why we make art and what it means to be 'real.'
www.commonwealmagazine.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
A conversation with Brandon Taylor about his new novel, "Minor Black Figures," and lots of Catholic stuff for @commonweal.bsky.social
www.commonwealmagazine.org/learning-zola
www.commonwealmagazine.org/learning-zola
"In the matter of gravy he is adamant."
- "Bleak House"
- "Bleak House"
October 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
"In the matter of gravy he is adamant."
- "Bleak House"
- "Bleak House"
"For," says he, "it's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains."
- "Bleak House"
- "Bleak House"
October 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
"For," says he, "it's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains."
- "Bleak House"
- "Bleak House"
Wonderful to spend time rereading Spark this summer/fall.
I wrote on Muriel Spark, perfection, and Frances Wilson's excellent new biography for @bookpostusa.bsky.social
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Review: Anthony Domestico on Muriel Spark
A disordered perfectionist
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October 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Wonderful to spend time rereading Spark this summer/fall.
I wrote on Muriel Spark, perfection, and Frances Wilson's excellent new biography for @bookpostusa.bsky.social
books.substack.com/p/review-ant...
books.substack.com/p/review-ant...
Review: Anthony Domestico on Muriel Spark
A disordered perfectionist
books.substack.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I wrote on Muriel Spark, perfection, and Frances Wilson's excellent new biography for @bookpostusa.bsky.social
books.substack.com/p/review-ant...
books.substack.com/p/review-ant...
"To the very last, and even afterwards, her frown remained unsoftened."
- "Bleak House"
- "Bleak House"
October 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"To the very last, and even afterwards, her frown remained unsoftened."
- "Bleak House"
- "Bleak House"