Anecdotal Evidence

A blog about the intersection of books and life.

Wednesday, July 09, 2025

'Without Any Hope of Fame or Money'

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Friends and relatives, people whose judgment I actually trust, have urged me to move Anecdotal Evidence from Blogger to Substack and I don’t...
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Tuesday, July 08, 2025

'It Is Always Summer, Always the Golden Hour'

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I fight the urge to wallow in nostalgia but it seeps back in like moisture in an unfinished basement. I take that image from my childhood ho...
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Monday, July 07, 2025

"Some of His Work Was Gold'

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From a dusty, thoroughly disorganized Houston bookstore I bought a copy of Turnstile One: A Literary Miscellany (Turnstile Press, 1948), ed...
Sunday, July 06, 2025

'Absolute Anthology'

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T he American poet Len Krisak asks a question common to all serious readers, one that, if posed privately, serves as an honest way to reve...
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Saturday, July 05, 2025

'I Should Never Mention It'

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Spoken by a man after my own heart:   “You must grant me a dispensation for saying any thing, whether it be sense or nonsense, upon the su...
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Friday, July 04, 2025

'A Great Euthanasia'

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I can’t think of another poet who wrote so often or so amusingly about death as Thomas Disch. I once tried tallying his death-themed poems a...
Thursday, July 03, 2025

'Lord, Make Me Not Too Rich. Nor Make Me Poor'

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“In spite of the Deconstructionists who say that communication is not really possible, we most of us manage to honor stop signs, and we all ...
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