February | 2025 | Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
7 posts published by banff1972 during February 2025| Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
7 posts published by banff1972 during February 2025| Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
If you’re reading this, you are faithful indeed. And I am grateful. Long silence here, I know. As my adopted country tumbles into authoritarianism, things have also been changing, though more positively, chez EMJ. My wife, daughter, and I are moving to St Louis in a month’s time! We’ve spent quite a bit of time […]| Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
Friends, I am here to apologize to Matt Keeley, who wrote this great piece for me many months ago and has waited patiently (or maybe fumed silently) for me to publish it. I have no good excuse: I got busy and forgot. Terrible. Anyway, this really is a case of better late than never. Matt […]| Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
Here is my introduction to Episode 35 of the podcast I co-host with Rebecca Hussey and Frances Evangelista, One Bright Book. Our book today is Willa Cather’s O Pioneers!, first published in 1913. O Pioneers! was Cather’s second novel, and her first big success. It’s a short book, episodic in structure, centered on Alexandra Bergson, […]| Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
Dropping this as something to keep you busy—and maybe even entertained—while I carve out the time to write my Year in Review piece. I won’t be catching up on the last half of the year—in fact, not sure I’m going to continue with the monthly pieces, might be time to try something new—but I’d already […]| Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
Pleased to once again present reading reviews from some of my favourite readers. Today’s installment, his fourth, is by Scott Walters. Scott launched the much-lamented blog seraillon in 2010, and expects to return to it one of these days. He largely follows Primo Levi’s model of “occasional and erratic reading, reading out of curiosity, impulse […]| Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
Pleased to once again present reading reviews from some of my favourite readers. Today’s installment, his fourth, is by that titanic reader, the one and only James Morrison. James lives and works in Adelaide, on unceded Kaurna territory. BEST BOOKS READ IN 2024: An Annotated Index of Limited Utility Books—there’s never any end to them, […]| Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
Pleased to once again present reading reviews from some of my favourite readers. Today’s installment, her third, is by my friend Anja Willner. Anja lives and works in Berlin. I’ve been logging my reading for seven years now. (A fairy-tale number, seven. I can’t name any other thing I’ve been doing for that long.) 2024 […]| Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
Pleased to once again present reading reviews from some of my favourite readers. Today’s installment, his third, is by my longtime friend Keith Bresnahan. He is a self-described harrumphing scrivener who lives and works in Toronto. 2024 was a difficult year, marked by personal loss. In July, an old friend from graduate school, a brilliant […]| Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
Excited to once again present reading reviews from some of my favourite readers. Today’s installment, his sixth, is by my longtime friend Nat Leach. Nat is a nineteenth-century scholar turned college administrator who has spent the last 7 years reading the books on his shelves in alphabetical order. He lives in Ontario. After complaining about […]| Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
Did you forget about me? Such a long, long time before the dawn I didn’t forget about you all, but I did prioritize some other things (including sleep and exercise: recommend both) that left …| Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
A while ago I convinced Scott of seraillon to help me host a discussion of Giorgio Bassani’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962). I hope others will join in, and as they do I’ll link to their p…| Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
