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).

Books I Read, 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 Barbarians; Paul Veyne, Palmyra; George Hutchinson, Facing the Abyss; Percival Everett, James; Arlie Russell Hochschild, Stolen Pride; Jo Sinclair, Wasteland; Niall Williams, Time of the Child; Isaac Rosenfeld, Passage from Home; Anatole Broyard, Kafka Was the Rage; Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March; Abdulrazak Gurnah, Gravel Heart; Charles Dickens, Great Expectations; Sy Montgomery, Soul of an Octopus; Zibby Owens, On Being Jewish in America;  Evi Bassoff, My Twinkling Grandmother; “Karen Palmer,” She’s Under Here;  Sophy Roberts, A Training School for Elephants; Mike Stark,Starlings, the Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird; “Maritza Duran,” From the Dictator’s Shadows; Pierre Zalloua, Ancestors; Dorothy Armstrong, Threads of Empire, a History of the World in Twelve Carpets; Shari Rabin, Jews of the West; Rachel Cockerell, Melting Point; Anne Tyler, Three Days in June; Anne Tyler, A Patchwork Planet, Karen R. Jones, Beastly Britain; Anne Tyler, A Spool of Blue Thread; Andreas Daum, Alexander von Humboldt; Ian Stewart, The Celts, Israel Zangwill, Children of the Ghetto; Joyce E. Chaplin, The Franklin Stove; Dyson and Rowland, Archeology and History in Sardinia from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages; Thomas Levenson, So Very Small.

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