Books Read:
James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (read chapters 1-3, still reading)
William York Tindall; A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake (still reading)
Edmund Lloyd Epstein; A Guide Through Finnegans Wake (still reading)
Jo Walton, Farthing
Andrew Bacevich, The Age of Illusions
Richard Powers, The Overstory (still reading)
Philip Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth (still reading)
Lewis Trondheim, Dominique Bertail, ZEP; Infinity 8 Volume 1: Love and Mummies (graphic novel)
Gwen De Bonneval & Fabien Vehlmann; Last Days of an Immortal (graphic novel, still reading)
Barbara Maria Stafford; Visual Analogy: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting (still reading)
Project News:
I finished and submitted a 1500 word essay for the journal Jesus the Imagination. The essay is a tribute to Harold Bloom.
The large project I spent all of last year conceptualizing is moving ahead. I had several false starts as I've experimented with the layout of the drawings (mostly concerning how large each panel should be). The story continues to evolve, but it is reassuringly similar to my original conception, albeit in a round about way. I plan to do scans of that original conception and may post them relatively soon. I think it would make an interesting contrast to observe where the project began and where it has ended up.
I have a few writing projects I hope to tackle this year. The first is an essay on economics and utopia. I've been mulling over this essay for a long time. It may end up being divided into at least two parts. The first part being an essay on economics and literature, which will be based on the readings I did for the Amimetobios course, Imagining Money.
I also plan on writing several commentaries on Finnegans Wake. I'm already considering an essay on the figure of "the cad."
