Tumblr (3.0; @leakybarrel)http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/My essay in the new issue of Open Letters Monthly is on The Mill on the Floss and spoilers: Yet as...http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/42067445215http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/42067445215Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:24:00 -0500George EliotOpen Letters MonthlyWhat a beautiful, delicate melancholy Gaskell conveys in this scene from Cranford of Miss Matty and...http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/40250849831http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/40250849831Fri, 11 Jan 2013 07:45:02 -0500Elizabeth GaskellAnne's tumblr: Draft footnote of the day: Trollope?!: fernham: so-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;...http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/40176642614http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/40176642614Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:18:43 -0500More Books and Bicycles: “There are choices we can make as consumers and as members of a...:...http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/40047901304http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/40047901304Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:50:37 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/78d98c29ff805394c8b6b2734ea4ab1e/tumblr_mg4dl47bTl1qced37o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://theparisreview.tumblr.com/post/39682001031/when-he-visits-russia-he-tells-me-he-is-swarmed">theparisreview</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>“When he visits Russia, he tells me, he is swarmed by the locals. ‘Crowds of people assemble and fight for a chance to touch me,’ he says. The last surviving male in the long family line, this Alexander Pushkin, seventy three, a retired ITT engineer, will take the name with him when he goes, and the Russians know it. He is a virtual saint to them. Why? Because his great-grandfather Alexander was the fountainhead of Russian letters and lives on today as a near-sacred cultural icon in his homeland.”</p> <p><em>Open Letters Monthly</em> on <a href="http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/tea-with-the-pushkins-in-brussels/">the rising interest in the poet Alexander Pushkin</a> outside Russia.</p> </blockquote>http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/39762165693http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/39762165693Sat, 05 Jan 2013 13:58:07 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me0zafn6681qhzwlzo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://onemorepagebooks.tumblr.com/post/36482907564">onemorepagebooks</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>President Obama & his daughters visited One More Page for Small Business Saturday!</p> </blockquote>http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/36663955355http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/36663955355Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:47:54 -0500&#8220;Every year, in the deep midwinter, there descends upon this world a terrible fortnight. A...http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/35245003427http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/35245003427Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:23:00 -0500Rose MacaulayRound I &#8220;Here,&#8221; he said, and passed her the Literary Supplement. &#8220;My first review....http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/34833751033http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/34833751033Fri, 02 Nov 2012 11:56:00 -0400Rose Macaulay&#8220;There is &#8230; very little demand for genuine criticism of the novel. Expert advice in this...http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/34593709570http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/34593709570Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:17:03 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc0m38XPkY1rj8amio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://bindersfullofwomen.tumblr.com/post/33750544241/nobody-puts-baby-in-a-binder">bindersfullofwomen</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Nobody puts baby in a binder.</p> </blockquote> <p>My favourite (so far) in this particular meme.</p>http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/33784934675http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/33784934675Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:14:06 -0400For a prospective undergraduate reading this Q. and A., how would you answer the question, Why study...http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/30111953188http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/30111953188Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:53:00 -0400literaturethe-how-to: by Diana Holquist 1. Skip to bestseller lists.2. Note how most books/authors there are...http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/29585400247http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/29585400247Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:20:15 -0400&#8220;Criticism is far too clever; that is what will be the death of it. It never judges...http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/29517359719http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/29517359719Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:46:07 -0400criticismWalking in Point Pleasant Park today, I couldn&#8217;t help but reflect that, pretty as the scene...http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/29148969870http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/29148969870Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:56:59 -0400george eliota somewhat tongue-in-cheek contribution to the How-To Issue Tumblr First of all, don’t listen to...http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/28861988914http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/28861988914Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:06:00 -0400Victorian novel&#8220;I am just and honest, not because I expect to live in another world, but because, having felt...http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/26841472028http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/26841472028Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:41:00 -0400george eliotethical criticism&#8220;These are the moments of revelation which compensate for the chaos, the discomfort, the toil...http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/26634063753http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/26634063753Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:17:00 -0400virginia woolfWinifred Holtby&#8220;When the robbery was talked of at the Rainbow and elsewhere, in good company, the balance...http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/26495458008http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/26495458008Wed, 04 Jul 2012 11:53:17 -0400george eliotatheismreligionSilas Marner&#8220;What to say to such a review other than: don&#8217;t! Please don&#8217;t! The libraries of...http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/26363481777http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/26363481777Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:32:01 -0400truth&#8220;But directly we say that the business of the artist is to provide us with a vivid and...http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/26311647637http://leakybarrel.tumblr.com/post/26311647637Sun, 01 Jul 2012 20:54:18 -0400virginia woolfWinifred Holtbyethical criticism