Dr. Metablog is the nom de blague of Vivian de St. Vrain, the pen name of a resident of the mountain west who writes about language, books, politics, or whatever else comes to mind. Under the name Otto Onions (Oh NIGH uns), Vivian de St. Vrain is the author of “The Big Book of False Etymologies” (Oxford, 1978) and, writing as Amber Feldhammer, is editor of the classic anthology of confessional poetry, “My Underwear” (Virago, 1997).
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From the “new non-fiction” shelf of the Boulder Public Libary, I borrowed On Being Jewish Now (2024). It’s an anthology of a hundred or so short pieces written in response to the savagery of October 7, 2023. The essay are repetitively, predictably sorrowful, indignant and nationalistic. I skimmed my way through three hundred emotional pages.…
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