Literature

On the corner of Easy Street and Poverty Lane

In Economics, Literature, Mapping, Transportation on 17 October 2008 with no comments

My friend Kirbie recently discovered that the corner of Easy Street and Poverty Lane is in Salem, South Carolina. Really.
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While I wanted to credit the optimism of whoever named the roads (Poverty Lane is a deadend, Easy Street links two major roads), I just realized that Easy Street is the only way to [...]

A (slightly edited) passage from Lindsay Bremner’s draft for “Citiness as Literariness”

In Events, Literature, PDF, Philadelphia, Philosophy, Urbanism on 30 October 2007 with no comments

A (slightly edited) passage from Lindsay Bremner’s draft for “Citiness as Literariness” [PDF]. Found via Networked_Performance.
The city asserts its otherness in a number of ways.
Firstly, it exposes us to an excessive presence of others, of strangers, who call into question our ownership of the world.
Second…the city annihilates authorship. It is most certainly a made artifact, [...]

I have a thing for overanalyses of words per sentence

In Literature, Statistics on 22 October 2007 with no comments

Steven Berlin Johnson scatter charts his words-per-sentence and word complexity, comparing himself to his literary peers and heroes; he draws some interesting conclusions.