Issue four of n+1 arrived this morning. I am among those guilty for its door-stop size, since I contributed to the symposium, "American Writing Today" (not online).
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- An Introduction to "A Game of Hide-and-Seek," 14 February 2012
- "Fair and Balanced," The Nation, 6 February 2012
- "Lost in the Meritocracy," New York Times Book Review, 1 May 2011
- "Tea and Antipathy," The New Yorker, 20/27 December 2010
- "The Early Literature of New York's Moneyed Class," The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York, 2010
- "Beer Buddies," Bookforum, February/March 2010
- "Terms of Infringement," The National (Abu Dhabi), 21 January 2010
- "Semantic Time Travel," New York Times Magazine, 10 January 2010
- "Against Camel Case," New York Times Magazine, 29 November 2009
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About
- This blog is written by Caleb Crain. There's an email address for me at the top of my bio page. For older posts on this blog, please check the online archives. A selection of the blog's posts, spanning six years, has also been collected as a book, titled The Wreck of the Henry Clay.
Can you elaborate on this?
What is n + 1?
What was your essay about?
Posted by: Mitchell Santine Gould | Thursday, 04 May 2006 at 08:55 PM
n+1 is a new journal about culture and politics. They see themselves, rather self-consciously, as continuing the tradition of Partisan Review. Back in the day, PR used to do these occasional round-ups in which worthies weighed in on the "State of American Writing," and that's what I'm guilty of participating in. Wesley Yang wrote a profile of them for the New York Observer, and A. O. Scott wrote one for the New York Times Magazine.
Posted by: Caleb Crain | Tuesday, 09 May 2006 at 08:57 PM
As I decided whether I'm bold enough to drop you a line and tell you that I wrote critical review of your contribution to "American Writing Today," I looked through my logs and saw a link to this post. I searched the page for it, but couldn't (and can't) find it, so I can only imagine that the Internet itself wanted me to do so. Who am I to decline?
For the record, yes, I should've turned down the snark, but I was genuinely baffled by your contribution...and had been dissertating all day, and therefore prone to annoyance. (But I'm still somewhat baffled by your contribution.)
Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Saturday, 13 May 2006 at 06:31 PM
Thanks for the feedback, Scott. I left a comment at your post on the Valve's blog.
Posted by: Caleb Crain | Monday, 15 May 2006 at 07:36 AM
Although I'm largely in sympathy with you (as noted at the Valve), I wish you'd mentioned some of the academics who do have that fannish energy. They exist -- why not grab the chance to give them a little shove into the n+1 spotlight? It's not like anyone else is gonna do it.
Posted by: Ray Davis | Monday, 15 May 2006 at 08:11 PM
After thinking about the space you had to work with, I withdraw my kibitz. Any such effort would've likely come across as disruptive namedropping. "Some Reflections on the State of Things" is a frame friendlier to diagnoses than to celebrations.
Posted by: Ray Davis | Tuesday, 16 May 2006 at 01:08 AM
Yeah, I did make a strategic decision not to name names, in praise or censure. But I can see your point. The other thing to admit, here: in my head, it wasn't an essay about academic criticism per se; it was an essay about criticism, and where it happens in our culture, and what's become of it. The essay didn't altogether come out that way, I realize.
Posted by: Caleb Crain | Tuesday, 16 May 2006 at 07:30 AM