Epistemographer

No, literally. David Foster Wallace met George Saunders tonight at the Public Theater for a several-hour discussion of fiction, writing and teaching sponsored by HousingWorks.1
I decided to go (and convinced Jenny to come with me) based on my appreciation for Wallace’s prose – he’s one of my favorite writers, and reading A Supposedly Fun Thing [...]

First things first – if anybody in Ithaca is looking for a bed, futon, or any number of other miscellaneous things, I’m selling some stuff in preparation for the move to DC. Let the shopping begin!

Been back in the country for about a week and a half, and haven’t managed to fire up Movable Type and start blogging again…I think that while I was away, I got out of the mindset of blogging, and it took the better part of two weeks for me to start to get that urge [...]

Well, my half-composed post on the various commencement speeches I’ve heard in the past two weeks will have to wait, because I’ve spent the past 24 hours in a frenzy of packing and apartment logistics. The good news is that I’ve got a backpack packed that’ll last me for the next two weeks, a camera [...]

Massive amounts of work. Then, Jenny’s graduation. Then, more massive amounts of work. Finally, this past weekend, my own commencement at Cornell:

Not that I’ve actually defended, of course, but it’s close enough that Cornell let me walk in the commencement ceremony this year rather than wait until the next one. All told, I had one [...]