To my right,
In a field of sunlight between two pines,
The droppings of last year’s horses
Blaze up into golden stones.
—James Wright, “Lying in a Hammock at James Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota”
Further Reading
On the Internet, that is.
- Language Log: Force of linguistic enlightenment, daily source of education, astounding demonstration of how academics might enter into the public sphere.
- Three-Toed Sloth (Cosma Shalizi): Enlightenment again, from a very literary statistician and former physicist.
- Piled Higher and Deeper: Has never successfully introduced a humanities character (cf. this strip), yet still the best running representation of academic life currently out there.
- International Cognition and Culture Institute Blog: Fascinating dispatches from a research group working on cognitive approaches to culture.
- Arcade: A digital humanities venture combining blogs, podcasts, tools for online collaboration, and open-access journals. If there is hope for digital publication in literary studies, it probably lies with enterprises like this. I blog there, too; whether this adds to or detracts from the hope is a separate issue.