by Michael Lesiuk | Aug 16, 2012 | Random Convolutes
Fonts control our minds. Everyone knows that. I feel like Roland Barthes’ Mythologies really needs a chapter on The New Yorker’s font and its connotations/myth. Did I read The New Yorker? This question had a dangerous urgency. It wasn’t any...
by Michael Lesiuk | Aug 13, 2012 | Writing Convolutes
What does literary criticism say about the critic? This is the story of my life—that is what must always be heard when someone speaks of someone else, cites or praises him or her. — Jacques Derrida, Aporias p. 2 Dickens was no hero; he was a powerful,...
by Michael Lesiuk | Aug 10, 2012 | Writing Convolutes
I’m tempted to say this is true of any vocation. If you don’t work at whatever it is you work at… That is to say, when I don’t write, there is a very strange moment when I go to sleep. When I have a nap and I fall asleep. At that moment, in a...