The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory, which includes my awesome weblog definition, has been published, but is unfortunately rather expensive. The silver lining is that that means people who want to cite my definition don’t buy the book, instead they end up […]

For the first time in months, all my doors and windows are wide open to tempt in the warm sunny air. Children have swarmed outdoors today, finally, after a long winter. The sun slants in across my desk and it’s still 20˚. […]

Today is Shyrin and Kirsti’s funeral. I wrote a long post but deleted it. Quiet.

Searching Technorati for useful phrases (“narrative trajectory” or “that David Lodge novel with the conference with one paper a day and the rest was coffee breaks”) doesn’t necessarily get you what you think you want, but you do tend to end up […]

Another interesting blog post, with several threads of good-looking conversations to follow, that I don’t have time to read now: Chutry writes about how blogs are a kind of writing to the moment (like epistolary novels) and how that might work in […]

An interesting post, at Pish Tosh, about blogging as a form of literature of domestic chaos. Housework, she notes that Shapiro writes in a history of housewifery in the 50s, housework “evaporates and leaves no trace” – unless you write about it. […]

“Criticism is as natural as breathing.” (T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1922)

Most people who read this blog don’t follow any of the links. MyBlogLog shows me that: on most days, less than five percent of the readers will have followed any individual link. Until yesterday, that is, when nearly 50% of the readers […]

The Interaction Design Seminar is today! Susanna designed the way-cool website, and yesterday I met the three speakers I’d not met before. I’m really looking forward to hearing them speak – they’re all lively, interesting people with lots of ideas. It’s going […]

There’s an interview with me about our department on the university website. So in the photo I don’t tilt my head, I tilt my body. I wonder what that body language means.