A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Saturday, August 22, 2015

AMERICAN LITERACY GREATNESS

Harold Bloom, The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime (New York: Spiegal & Grau, 2015) ("This book is about the dozen creators of the American sublime... [T]hese writers represent our incessant effort to transcend the human without forsaking humanism." Id. at 3. Also, see Cynthia Ozick, 'Shared Visions," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 5/24/2015.).