Things Noted Here and There

Really Medi-evil Stuff: Herr Professor Doktor Boethius P. von Kornckrake does Kalamazoo: Part I, Part II, Part III.

Homoeroticism or Fear of Giving Birth to a Monster? Germaine Greer,"Yes, Frankenstein really was written by Mary Shelley. Its obvious because the book is so bad," Guardian, 9 April, reviews John Lauritsen's The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein. John Lauritsen replies to Greer. Miriam Burstein gets her chuckle on.

Fun and Games with Ayn Rand: At Walking in the Berkshires, Tim Abbott writes about his Uncle Archie Ogden, who was Ayn Rand's editor at Bobbs-Merrill.

Literature and Social Purpose: Miriam Burstein and Scott Eric Kaufmann lead off in The Valve's book event on Amanda Claybaugh's The Novel of Purpose: Literature and Social Reform in the Anglo-American World. There's much more of it to follow.

Gramsci: International Socialism: A Quarterly Journal of Socialist Opinion, #114, features Chris Bambery, Adrian Budd, Chris Harman, and Megan Trudell on the 70th anniversary of the death of Antonio Gramsci. Hat tip.

The Party Line: Pravda explains why Don Imus had to go. Who knew?