Anecdotal Evidence

A blog about the intersection of books and life.

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

'A Wild Sostenuto of the Heart'

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At the center of the screen is an acute triangle with a rounded bottom. Its shape resembles the pattern left by wipers on a dirty windshield...
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Monday, August 17, 2026

'Conserved in Treasure, Finally'

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Rare is the poet who can simultaneously think and sing. C.H. Sisson once quoted the French critic Charles Maurras saying, “Reason may convi...
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Sunday, August 16, 2026

'A Very Deadly Sort of Slave Feeling'

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Regardless of her putative subject, Stevie Smith always seems to get around to death. That sounds like a prescription for adolescent morbidi...
Saturday, August 15, 2026

'Thine Unsuspecting Gratitude and Love'

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We’ve had a damp spring and summer in Houston – thirty-nine inches of rain since the start of the year. No major storms but frequent brief s...
Friday, August 14, 2026

'My Poems Sing of Life'

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The new century -- no longer new -- has been insatiably consuming good writers. In the early years of the twenty-first we endured a rough pa...
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Thursday, August 13, 2026

'My Unreliable Retrieval System'

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Welcome news is so rare in our withered literary culture, we are obligated to celebrate good new work when we encounter it. The summer 2026 ...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2026

'What Are You Selling There – Despair?'

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The Night of the Murdered Poets took place on August 12, 1952. Thirteen literary and intellectual figures were murdered on Stalin’s orders i...
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