Dr. Metablog

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).

December 2025

  • Marcia Bjornerud, Reading the Rocks; Jeremy Braddock, Collecting as Modernist Practice;  William Shakespeare, Pericles; Bill Schutt, Bite; William T. Taylor, Hoof Beats, how horses shaped human history; Laura Brown, The Counterhuman Imaginary; Mary Antin, The Promised Land; Marcia Bjornerud, Turning to Stone; Leonard Cassuto, Academic Writing as if Readers Matter; Cathy Caruth, Literature in the Ashes of History; Elisha Cohn, Still Life; Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit; Peter Bogucki, The…

    Read more…

RECENT POSTS


ARCHIVE