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Scourged and Sweet
On the baroque symbolism of native wildflowers
Aug 29
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Matthew Spencer
5
The Beautiful Dinkus
Some undisciplined thoughts about personal health, Lafcadio Hearn, and obscure typographical marks
Aug 22
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Matthew Spencer
6
Emergency Books, Emergency Movies
Sometimes it's alright to just schlep things around like a big security blanket.
Aug 15
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Matthew Spencer
12
5
I Came as I Was
Some Dispatches from the Pacific Northwest
Aug 8
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Matthew Spencer
8
Strange Tales from the Ancient Capital: Biloquism, or a Spurious Footnote to Early American Literature (1793)
From an ongoing series of historical weird fiction
Aug 1
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Matthew Spencer
8
July 2025
Did I Exist?
On Kiyoshi Kurosawa's License to Live
Jul 25
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Matthew Spencer
10
Translators Shouldn't Use AI
A limited refutation of something I just wrote
Jul 18
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Matthew Spencer
8
Should Translators Use AI?
A limited defense
Jul 11
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Matthew Spencer
8
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June 2025
Surf's Up
On the Romantic art of Brian Wilson
Jun 27
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Matthew Spencer
10
Forget the Pedantry. Read Heaney's Beowulf
Translators should have more artistic freedom, not less.
Jun 20
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Matthew Spencer
14
From the Shoproom Floor
On being absentminded and maintaining a business
Jun 13
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Matthew Spencer
7
May 2025
Who Will Review the Books?
Me along with some people from Ohio, apparently
May 29
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Matthew Spencer
16
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