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Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
Joshua Corey
Author of THE LAST WORDS OF JACK RUBY, a novel, and other things. Editor-in-Chief of The Fortnightly Review. Professor of English at Lake Forest College.
The Fortnightly Review
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Joshua Corey
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The Jethro Tull of literature is Jethro Tull.
Clancy Steadwell
14h
Is there an author kind of like the Miles Davis or Jethro Tull of literature who kind of did literary/genre but at a high level across numerous genres and eras?
Just asking here to avoid any kind of A.I. trying to give me some dumbass answer I trust you all more.
Joshua Corey
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Every now and then someone mentions Hannah Arendt and someone else mentions Martin Heidegger and then I feel duty-bound to remind the world that Hannah and the Master, my poetic masque about their relationship and its implications for their century and ours, exists.
Hannah and the Master — Joshua Corey
A poetic masque on Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger — their love, their politics, their catastrophic century, and ours.
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“Utopias of violence” is an arresting phrase, as it its personalized version, “utopians of violence.” Snyder applies it to our ghastly leaders—Trump, Vance, and especially Hegseth—but it’s an old American impulse given new life by the total victory achieved in WWII, which left us with the permanent illusion that we could shape the world …