Archive - Smith's Notes

Reading William S. Burroughs in the Age of A.I.

Jan 29 •

Benjamin J. Smith

A Requiem for David Lynch

Jan 17 •

Benjamin J. Smith

July 2024

Emersonian Bible #4: Harrison, Knausgaard, Qiu

News, archive, quotes, and recommendations.

Jul 4, 2024

March 2024

Ceci n'est pas un Proust

Or, Notes on Reading in Time

Mar 31, 2024 •

Benjamin J. Smith

Terlingua Ghost Town: Poems

Love, horror, and Leonard Cohen in Far West Texas.

Mar 13, 2024 •

Benjamin J. Smith

December 2023

Should've Been Me

A song by Mitski

Dec 18, 2023 •

Benjamin J. Smith

A song by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

Dec 8, 2023 •

Benjamin J. Smith

Picasso / Warhol: Whose Era?

Or, Genius and the Individual Brand

Dec 5, 2023 •

Benjamin J. Smith

November 2023

Emersonian Bible #3: Ngũgĩ, Klein, Cave

News, archive, quotes, and recommendations.

Nov 22, 2023

Love Minus Zero / No Limit

A song by Bob Dylan

Nov 15, 2023 •

Benjamin J. Smith

October 2023

The Sutter Cane School of Disembodied Poetics

In the Mouth of SHOCKTOBER 2023

Oct 31, 2023 •

Benjamin J. Smith

Deckard in Juárez

Toward a Unified Theory of Roberto Bolaño and Philip K. Dick

Oct 24, 2023 •

Benjamin J. Smith

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