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.
Please consider supporting this tumblelog by buying some of my books. I will thank you, my family will thank you, and the internet — surely — will thank you.
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
“Depp’s Sweeney comes across as one more mournful Burton wacko. His singing gives off the Cockney yowl of someone who has listened to too much early Bowie, and his ivory-pale face is crowned by a stiff black mane with a white blaze in it. If you had sat Susan Sontag down and broken the news that not everyone in New York reads Hegel, you would have got the same effect.”
— Anthony Lane on Sweeney Todd
