Archive - Dream of a Rarebit Fiend

The Hardly Boys

A short story, out loud

Apr 3 •

6:39

I Hope to Understand in a Few Days

A belated essay on Lars von Trier's 2003 film The Five Obstructions

Apr 1 •

March 2024

Learning from Louisville

Poetry, sandwiches, and societies

Mar 9 •

February 2024

Grains of the voice

Rooney, Ashbery, and the literary predicament of Generation X. Richard Hugo and John Keats stop by.

Feb 4 •

January 2024

Maestro e Commendatore

Michael Mann's lonely men. A review of Ferrari, with reference as usual to the Aubrey-Maturin series of Patrick O'Brian.

Jan 8 •

Patrick O'Brian: A Life Revealed

Masculinity as narrative gap

Jan 2 •

December 2023

Digression and story in Patrick O'Brian's fiction, starring everyone's favorite cross-grained bastard of a servant, Preserved Killick.

Dec 6, 2023 •

November 2023

The Hardly Boys

Nov 11, 2023 •

The trouble and desire of Generation X

Nov 4, 2023 •

October 2023

Dialogue tags in Tolkien and O'Brian

Oct 22, 2023 •

Life During Wartime

Stop Making Sense, then and now

Oct 17, 2023 •

Return to the Ring: The Next Day

Goddamn, boxing is hard

Oct 2, 2023 •

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