More notes about or against the lyric essay; in which your plucky correspondent is asked questions about his reservations on a certain made-up literary form. (via We Who Are About To Die.)

I wrote this up really quick a couple days ago, and I’d be remiss not to link to it over here.

Last week, a college student named Jordan Baum sent me some questions about my thoughts on the lyric essay. She’s working on a long thesis about it, and had noticed some of the things I had written online as well as the literary prank calls. I had a lot of coffee and typed up the answers. Since everything I do I do for this website and for you, my dear readers, I asked if I could publish my answers here and she gave the go-ahead to do that. Hope … Read More

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