tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171487865623213768.post1658626133687252355..comments2024-03-29T05:15:20.833-04:00Comments on The Storialist: Bookmarks List/Bedside TableHannah Stephensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15792203070774504501noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171487865623213768.post-29310014438618297312012-11-02T19:14:31.987-04:002012-11-02T19:14:31.987-04:00I expropriated an idea from the interview with Dar...I <a href="http://billsigler.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-medievalists.html" rel="nofollow">expropriated an idea</a> from the interview with Darling here, but I especially liked the John Ron Campbell essay. Anyone who can weave in Orpheus, Thoreau, Walter Benjamin and Arthur Waley seamlessly into a “scrawny” essay – and still sound like a dispatch from modern-day America – deserves my respect. I loved the insight about McMansions emulating mall architecture, and what are we to do now about that now-outdated ostentation. Campbell seems a good heir as essayist to David Foster Wallace, but I can’t say the same for Mr. Sullivan, who is more consciously mimicking Wallace’s style. I found his piece ghastly, with every wrong-headed cliché about massage, alternative healing and men’s callousness toward same all wrapped up into the standard NY Times prose style of equal parts arrogance and stupidity. A good reminder of why I stopped reading newspapers, if nothing else.WAShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10403669322174979974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171487865623213768.post-6533362925602397882012-11-02T11:28:12.892-04:002012-11-02T11:28:12.892-04:00That Times article is clever and fun. So many grea...That Times article is clever and fun. So many great lines, like this one:<br /><br />"Faux-wise passive-aggressive hippie maxims always seem true and wounding in the moment." : ) <br /><br />Always great to see what snags your interest, Hannah. Thanks for the links. drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06509808686782374652noreply@blogger.com