Metafictions

Imagine an infinite anti-library of partial, unfinished, and discarded manuscripts by the masters of the written word.

Lessons from literary studies

Transitioning to a post-academic life

My own great resignation from academia

Moods, meds, and agency

On reading Borges’s “The Garden of Forking Paths”

Metafiction and the endless “meta” of my meta-notebooks

Sight vs. aural reading

The supernatural at the service of ideological horrors

How he gained, rather than sold, his soul

On the monsters and landscapes of ‘Stranger Things’

And other thoughts while watching ‘The Sandman’

The opening scene metafictionally frames Mike Flanagan’s TV adaptation of Christopher Pike’s 90s YA novel, The Midnight Club. Ilonka…

Is the film’s sociopolitical message too deliberately played?