So I caught another free show this past weekend, thanks to the River to River Festival. This time it was a double bill at the South Street Seaport, with Black Moth Super Rainbow (a band name I’m perpetually embarrassed to say out loud) and Fujiya & Miyagi, the British electro-folk trio.
Before getting [...]
Archive for July, 2007
River to River Festival, Part Deux (Doo)
Posted in Music on July 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Pedantic? No, Pornographic!
Posted in Music on July 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Well, I’ve posted my first long, horribly boring essay (on Ibsen no less!), so I thought I’d write about something maybe more fun, like the New Pornographers show I saw this past weekend.
The New Pornographers are probably my favorite band as of late. If you don’t know them, they’re a Canadian indie-supergroup comprised of [...]
…and now some thoughts
Posted in Ibsen, Vanity Fair, Victorian on July 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
So as I described in a previous post, I’ve been neck-deep in Victorian era literature as of late, and I decided to reread that mainstay of high school English curricula, A Doll’s House, by the 19th Century Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen. Ibsen is often referred to as the originator of realist drama, and is [...]
A disclaimer…
Posted in Uncategorized on July 6, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I recently had a discussion with a friend of mine about the acceptable behavior of a writer. We agreed that a “real writer,” i.e. a writer with talent, would never say, “Yes, I’m a writer, and a fine one at that.” It seems to me that along with literary talent comes an almost [...]
What’s on deck?
Posted in Uncategorized on July 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Well, now that I know I have at least one reader (big up Celine), I feel obligated to give some idea of what’s on the agenda for the coming weeks so you can plan your vacations and other activities around checking Enfield:
1)I am currently reading “Vanity Fair” in order to complete the reading for my [...]
As if another blog were necessary…
Posted in Introductory Remarks, Uncategorized on July 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Hello all (and by all, I think I mean the abstract possibility of future readership),
Welcome to the Enfield Book Review! My name is Jed Cohen and I will be your sole (for the time being) book reviewer and trusty guide through the morass of language dubbed (perhaps incorrectly) literature. Rather than follow the [...]
