Handing someone a copy of Moby-Dick hidden in my big overcoat
Finally got some reading glasses in my 40s
A Hegelian reading of “Before you came into my life, I missed you so bad”
🧵 1/x
Robbie Moore
tldr:
* it's a bottle episode in novel form
* resolutely earthbound prose (but looking at the stars)
* lowkey existential meltdowns
* strong family resemblance to The Labyrinth
I reviewed Amanda Lohrey's Capture theconversation.com/amanda-lohre...
I reviewed Amanda Lohrey's Capture theconversation.com/amanda-lohre...
the word coward and the word coda have the same etymological root in the word “coe” or tail, and it’s for this reason that if your book has a coda instead of a proper ending then you’re a big wimp and you’ve bottled it
I'm delighted to have a chapter in this wonderful new book with Edinburgh University Press
Telepoetics: Writing the Phone in Literature, Culture and Theory (Eds Sarah Jackson, Philip Leonard, Annabel Williams)
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-telepoe...
Open access: www.jstor.org/content/oa_c...
Robbie Moore
Robbie Moore
Amanda Lohrey’s Capture takes place in weird shiny rooms, where humans are studied with curiosity and partial incomprehension.