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Tag Archives: James Bader
GUEST POST: Jame’s Bader on Beauty In a One-Inch Box
People in my generation don’t often receive physical mail. I get the occasional bill, sometimes a letter from my former school seeking money, and lots of junk mail. In this age of email and texting and online bill payments, I also never send physical mail. This is not the case for printmaker George A. Walker and his wife Michelle. They send around 300 custom printed holiday cards every year, and this year, created custom postage stamps to go along with them. Continue reading
GUEST POST: James Bader Recommends Books About Books
Writing about literature is not a new idea by any means. By the time Ovid was writing (between 43 BCE and 17-18 AD), referential literature and what we might call “meta works” were already in existence. Ovid (of Metamorphoses fame) … Continue reading
PQ Weekly Roundup: 22 Apr 2022
Every Friday, the PQ Weekly Roundup collects the most shared links in our social media network—bookish articles, reviews, quizzes, recommendations and more—in convenient digest form. Continue reading
GUEST POST: James Bader on the Intersection of Nature and Art in Casting into Mystery
The main lesson I took away from my reading is that Reid and Wesley both view fly fishing as a gateway to many aspects of the world. Whether it be books, music, philosophy, religion or love, everything can be related back to the hours they spend standing hip deep in the river. Continue reading
GUEST POST: James Bader on Innovating a Classical Trope in The Essential John Glassco
There is only one poet I know who shares Glassco’s brilliance at transforming dark subject matter: Ovid. Continue reading
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