Anthony Domestico
@tonydomestico.bsky.social
Critic and associate professor of literature at Purchase College, SUNY
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Ever Inward | Anthony Domestico
A biography of the poet Amy Clampitt shows how poetry germinated throughout her life and blossomed in a late-career flourishing.
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I wrote on Amy Clampitt’s life and work for the new issue of @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
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The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
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I wrote about Thomas Pynchon's undead for @commonweal.bsky.social
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Thomas Pynchon's ninth, and perhaps final, novel is haunted by mystery, meaning, and the undead.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I wrote about Thomas Pynchon's undead for @commonweal.bsky.social
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My piece on the life and work of Amy Clampitt.
“No matter where she was, Amy Clampitt found the dynamism of the natural world—the light on the oceans and light on the prairies, birds flying and alders spreading—visually irresistible.” —@tonydomestico.bsky.social
Ever Inward | Anthony Domestico
A biography of the poet Amy Clampitt shows how poetry germinated throughout her life and blossomed in a late-career flourishing.
www.nybooks.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
My piece on the life and work of Amy Clampitt.
"I am sorry to say that I am very far from well; and Jemima has just told me that the butcher says there is a bad sore-throat very much about. I dare say I shall catch it; and my sore-throats, you know, are always worse than anybody's."
- "Persuasion"
- "Persuasion"
November 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"I am sorry to say that I am very far from well; and Jemima has just told me that the butcher says there is a bad sore-throat very much about. I dare say I shall catch it; and my sore-throats, you know, are always worse than anybody's."
- "Persuasion"
- "Persuasion"
"Cheever may well owe his daughter a belated apology. But admitting that doesn’t do much for those of us coming to this book hoping for new insights."
Anthony Giardina on Susan Cheever's latest book for @commonweal.bsky.social
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Anthony Giardina on Susan Cheever's latest book for @commonweal.bsky.social
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Hello (Again), My Father
Susan Cheever has made a kind of cottage industry of debunking her father’s carefully maintained image.
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November 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
"Cheever may well owe his daughter a belated apology. But admitting that doesn’t do much for those of us coming to this book hoping for new insights."
Anthony Giardina on Susan Cheever's latest book for @commonweal.bsky.social
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Anthony Giardina on Susan Cheever's latest book for @commonweal.bsky.social
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"It was now dusk, that time when all the possibilities seemed to shift a little."
- Joy Williams, "Nettle"
- Joy Williams, "Nettle"
November 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
"It was now dusk, that time when all the possibilities seemed to shift a little."
- Joy Williams, "Nettle"
- Joy Williams, "Nettle"
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Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social on Amy Clampitt’s pleasure-giving poetry
Ever Inward | Anthony Domestico
A biography of the poet Amy Clampitt shows how poetry germinated throughout her life and blossomed in a late-career flourishing.
www.nybooks.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social on Amy Clampitt’s pleasure-giving poetry
"He laughed, but, as usual, seemed quite candid, and really to mean what he said."
- "Bleak House"
- "Bleak House"
November 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"He laughed, but, as usual, seemed quite candid, and really to mean what he said."
- "Bleak House"
- "Bleak House"
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My piece on the late flowering of Amy Clampitt’s poetry for @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Ever Inward | Anthony Domestico
A biography of the poet Amy Clampitt shows how poetry germinated throughout her life and blossomed in a late-career flourishing.
www.nybooks.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
My piece on the late flowering of Amy Clampitt’s poetry for @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
My piece on the late flowering of Amy Clampitt’s poetry for @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Ever Inward | Anthony Domestico
A biography of the poet Amy Clampitt shows how poetry germinated throughout her life and blossomed in a late-career flourishing.
www.nybooks.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
My piece on the late flowering of Amy Clampitt’s poetry for @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
"Daily the restless men who have no occupation in life, present the appearance of being rather busy."
- "Bleak House"
- "Bleak House"
November 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
"Daily the restless men who have no occupation in life, present the appearance of being rather busy."
- "Bleak House"
- "Bleak House"
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For the haters who say Big Fiction over-relies on allegory, my most explicit, spirited defense of allegorical interpretation. "Sociology and Allegory," published as part of a series on the sociology of literature in IASL. Lemme know if you want a PDF
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Sociology and Allegory
The question of the relationship between internal and external analysis of literature remains open across disciplinary inquiries. Although Pierre Bourdieu claims to offer a definitive answer to the qu...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
For the haters who say Big Fiction over-relies on allegory, my most explicit, spirited defense of allegorical interpretation. "Sociology and Allegory," published as part of a series on the sociology of literature in IASL. Lemme know if you want a PDF
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Reposted by Anthony Domestico
Reposted by Anthony Domestico
Reposted by Anthony Domestico
Utterly delightful piece by Dan Barry about catching up with a sharply dressed William Kennedy, now a spry 97 years old, at a fundraising event in Albany! He remembers his mother's excitement when FDR won the presidential election in '36. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/a...
William Kennedy, Albany’s Bard, Reads a Story With Legs
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November 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Utterly delightful piece by Dan Barry about catching up with a sharply dressed William Kennedy, now a spry 97 years old, at a fundraising event in Albany! He remembers his mother's excitement when FDR won the presidential election in '36. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/a...
Reposted by Anthony Domestico
I wrote on Amy Clampitt’s life and work for the new issue of @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Ever Inward | Anthony Domestico
A biography of the poet Amy Clampitt shows how poetry germinated throughout her life and blossomed in a late-career flourishing.
www.nybooks.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I wrote on Amy Clampitt’s life and work for the new issue of @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
I wrote on Amy Clampitt’s life and work for the new issue of @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Ever Inward | Anthony Domestico
A biography of the poet Amy Clampitt shows how poetry germinated throughout her life and blossomed in a late-career flourishing.
www.nybooks.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I wrote on Amy Clampitt’s life and work for the new issue of @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
"'Sir,' returns Vholes, always looking at the client as if he were making a lingering meal of him with his eyes as well as with his professional appetite."
- "Bleak House"
- "Bleak House"
November 13, 2025 at 11:51 AM
"'Sir,' returns Vholes, always looking at the client as if he were making a lingering meal of him with his eyes as well as with his professional appetite."
- "Bleak House"
- "Bleak House"
@paulbmoses.bsky.social on Paul Elie's latest for @commonweal.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
@paulbmoses.bsky.social on Paul Elie's latest for @commonweal.bsky.social
"Guv'ner," says Phil with exceeding gravity, "he's a leech in his dispositions, he's a screw and a wice in his actions, a snake in his twistings, and a lobster in his claws."
- "Bleak House"
- "Bleak House"
November 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
"Guv'ner," says Phil with exceeding gravity, "he's a leech in his dispositions, he's a screw and a wice in his actions, a snake in his twistings, and a lobster in his claws."
- "Bleak House"
- "Bleak House"
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What better way to start a Friday than by listening to Joel and I talk about Mason & Dixon? on.soundcloud.com/dhLTLsFPABxW...
Episode Twenty-Eight: Mason & Dixon (November 2025)
Reading too widely and talking too seriously.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
What better way to start a Friday than by listening to Joel and I talk about Mason & Dixon? on.soundcloud.com/dhLTLsFPABxW...
Reposted by Anthony Domestico
It's been a James Schuyler day. The Manhattan sublime, from his Payne Whitney poems.
November 7, 2025 at 2:50 AM
It's been a James Schuyler day. The Manhattan sublime, from his Payne Whitney poems.
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"I was seeing men styling, wallowing, and self-pitying, but I wasn’t seeing them reading or writing or thinking." Steve Donoghue on the vacuous, anti-intellectual world that men's magazines present to the young men who read them. open.substack.com/pub/stevedon...
Go Read, Young Man
Why Esquire needs a Books editor
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November 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"I was seeing men styling, wallowing, and self-pitying, but I wasn’t seeing them reading or writing or thinking." Steve Donoghue on the vacuous, anti-intellectual world that men's magazines present to the young men who read them. open.substack.com/pub/stevedon...
My conversation with Brandon Taylor for @commonweal.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
My conversation with Brandon Taylor for @commonweal.bsky.social
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My October column for @commonweal.bsky.social on Hester Kaplan's "Twice Born" and a new genre: the critic's daughter's memoir.
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Do Critics Make Good Parents?
How does the life of the critic, which demands both vulnerability and authority, translate into the life of the father?
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November 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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