Kempton Mooney Less Profundity, More Secundity

I saw the movie Drive this past week and was struck, as many have been, by the theme music. Here are three pieces I put together this weekend with that opening sequence moving through my head.

Following E.M. Forster’s ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL, this past week I read James Wood’s HOW FICTION WORKS, a poetic analysis of the novel illuminating parts not touched by Lubbock and Forster. Wood draws on examples from through out literature’s history, giving particular attention to Flaubert as the one who changed everything.
HOW FICTION WOKRS [...]

Last year I read Percy Lubbock’s THE CRAFT OF FICTION, which was insightful and entertaining in a slightly dated way. Reading it made me realize how few books have been devoted to the structure of the novel, and I believe this is one reason E.M. Forster’s ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL receives so much praise. Forster [...]

You know you spend too much time in Excel when it starts sending you invitations.
Because everybody loves a graph. No, really, let me show you with this chart. This axis represents the appreciation of visualized data…

Over the weekend I went on a roadtrip to New England with these guys:

in this car:

to here:

and here:

Mostly we did this:

If you would like to see more photos, they are here.