Much of my critical work is at corleymiller.substack.com, where I blogged brief notes on my PhD reading list.
Some highlights:
The Third Year // Angel Food
…for a while we thought we’d been chosen for something else, something that was easier or more fun, or at least that didn’t hurt as much…
Donut As Evidence // Pigeon Pages
on a saucer in the fridge, forlorn
the way that having is forlorn
when want has gone…
Compensation // n+1
The mother decided that she wanted to install new cabinets in her kitchen, though the old cabinets — black, with silver handles — were perfectly adequate.
Sea Ranch // n+1
I had been meaning to let Smitty convince me about one of his schemes for a long time and now it had happened. We were going to go up to Sea Ranch together, for about two weeks, and we were going to build a house out of Death. We had a lot of things to get done.