[Note: As of the writing of this article, the author has not yet seen Breaking Bad’s Season 5 premiere. The episode aired Sunday, July 15, 2012] I am going to begin from the critical consensus-based assumption that we do care about Breaking Bad. To cite just one example, last year Chuck Klosterman began his article …
When I was in graduate school in Rochester, NY, I briefly taught at the Eastman School of Music. To get to my classroom, I had to walk through the world famous Kodak Hall at Eastman Theater. In the dead of Rochester’s suffocating winter, I’d pass through the walkway behind top row of seats in the …
I think it better at times like these We poets keep our mouths shut, for in truth We have no gift to set a statesman right. . . —William Butler Yeats, 1915 When Yeats responded to Shelley’s famous claim that “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world,” one wonders whether they were in fact …