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The Glad Day Draweth Near
A Far Light now listed on the website of Cambridge Scholars Publishing As of this writing (from a brownstone Air BnB on the Lower East Side of Manhattan) I’m still proofing and indexing, but CSP has announced the forthcoming publication of A … Continue reading
Direct fee-transfer details
In case you might prefer to pay course fees by electronic transfer, here are my account details: account name: Robert DiNapoli BSB: 083-004 Acct No: 98-921-0332 Please be sure to let me know by email, including the name of the … Continue reading
Proof the Proofs
Galley proofs of A Far Light turned up this morning. That sorts my play-time for a bit. In final print-dress, baby’s weighing in at 450+ pages. Guess I wrote a book.
New MLS Courses for August
I’ll be taking a small holiday in July, but the MLS will be back in force with courses for the latter half of 2016 beginning from August. Here are the offering so far booked in: The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer’s … Continue reading
A Short Break
As I enter the home stretch of preparing the final drafts of my Beowulf-book for publication, I will need to take a short break from regular teaching to give the job my full attention. That means, once my current run of courses … Continue reading
No MLS Refectory Next Week
Because of a schedule fire drill in Ross House, I’ve decided to cancel next week’s (10 February) Refectory session. We’ll resume as scheduled on 17 February.
A Little Weirdness for the New Year: Kafka
The Czech author Franz Kafka has become a byword for much that is uncomfortable and obscure in literary modernism. His name is now a well-worn adjective used to describe works with a similar feel to Kafka’s excursions into the hinterlands of the … Continue reading
And So It Begins: The MLS Refectory 2016
The MLS Refectory series begins next week (27 January), at its usual day and hour, Wednesdays 1-2pm, though in the slightly more spacious surroundings of first-floor room 1.1 in Ross House. Here’s a PDF of the menu for the first … Continue reading
And They’re Off! First Confirmed Courses for 2016
Hi, everyone, and a very happy new year to you all. Here is a file containing the confirmed bookings for January-May of 2014. Confirmed Timetable for 2016 Courses There have been some changes. Ross house could not accommodate my long-course requests … Continue reading
My Beowulf Book Proceedeth Apace
I’m no graphic artist, but I’ve been having fun messing about with title-page formats for my first-draft-complete Beowulf book. And, finally, a title that does the job for me. Link to PDF mockup below. Title Page mk IV