10/18/2019 0 Comments apaceIf I haven't written anything here in awhile, it's because I've finally returned to a practice of writing, one that is personal and professional, and so marries the two impulses in a less self-segregating way than the blog facilitates.
But I am at work on projects-- --an essay on Yvonne Vera's unpublished novel Obedience, rememory, lynching, and the trauma of/and/in the archives --an essay on Doris Lessing's theatrical work, all those 'dead ducks' that she was somewhat embarrassed to have written --an essay on Doris Lessing's mescaline trip in 1962, which is wonderfully preserved in the journal she wrote during the experience, with a UK scholar of psychedelia --an essay on immigrant care labour in Doris Lessing, Brian Chikwava, and Zadie Smith --an essay on Zadie Smith's reading of George Eliot's reading of Spinoza, for a collected edition on Smith's more recent works, and for which I'm excitedly reading her new collection, Union Street --and, more, a book (or two?) collecting and organizing my Doris Lessing research And I've worked toward, and embraced, the rhythm of regular writing. Finally. Again.
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AuthorJames Arnett is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. Archives
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