A journal, commonplace book, and Wunderkammer.
Your host is Alan Jacobs.
My blog is called Text Patterns. Text Patterns has a Twitter feed.
I used to write for The American Scene, and I still love those guys.
I tweet.
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Original Sin: a Cultural History
Looking Before and After: Testimony and the Christian Life
The Narnian: the Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis
Shaming the Devil: Essays in Truthtelling
A Theology of Reading: the Hermeneutics of Love
A Visit to Vanity Fair: Moral Essays on the Present Age
What Became of Wystan: Change and Continuity in Auden’s Poetry
A cabinet by James Krenov, who just died at the age of 88. “Mr. Krenov liked to keep shavings of Lebanon cedar and sandalwood in a box beneath his bed so he could savor their fragrance, his daughter Katya said. When he died, she said, he was holding a piece of sandalwood that he had shaped and smoothed.”
