Category Archives: Literature

Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe and Real-Life Trial by Combat

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: January 19, 2010
I’m studying Ivanhoe right now, and I came across some interesting articles about the book and its connection to a real-life trial by combat. So I thought I would blog about the details, because though I think it is interesting it will probably never make it into a paper. And the advantage of the blog [...]
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Writing habits pt. 1: Anthony Trollope

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: December 5, 2009
I started a post comparing the writing habits of Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and Ernest Hemingway, but I found that for each writer, the most interesting theme about their writing was unique to them. Trollope is a machine. Dickens is concerned primarily with his medium. Hemingway is–well, he’s Hemingway. So I split it into three [...]
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Advantages of ebooks (in an ideal world)

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: November 12, 2009
So I got to wondering what would happen if ebook publishers somehow had a bunch of money to make ebooks really awesome (instead of kind of lame, poorly formatted, and with limiting DRMs). What would some of the advantages of ebooks be in an ideal world? Email your ebook to a friend with all your annotations/marginalia/notes [...]
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Secret, unpublished, hard to find short stories by J.D. Salinger

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: November 6, 2009
Back in high school, one of my English teachers gave us “Teddy” by J.D. Salinger to read and then talk about in class, and at the end of the term he put Salinger’s  “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” on the final exam (on a high school final that’s just cruel, if you ask me). After [...]
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