I started Interminable Rambling in August 2015. On this site, I provide reflections on African American, American, and Southern Literature, American popular culture and politics, and pedagogy. Interminable Rambling arose out of the blog I maintained for the Ernest J Gaines Center. There, I wrote about items in the center’s archives, Gaines’ works, and texts that related to Gaines and Louisiana. When I moved on from the center, I started Interminable Rambling as a way to maintain a writing schedule.
I visited Paris for the first time back in the spring of 2019. During that trip, I only had, basically, a day and a half to wander around the city. I went to the Auguste Rodin museum, the Musée d’Orsay, and Cimetière du Montparnasse. As well, I walked to various sites where I knew that…
When we lived in Bergen, Norway, I would occasionally go to the KODE Art Museums to see pieces by Edvard Munch and other Norwegian artists. During one of those visits, I encountered the work of Nikolai Astrup, a modernist painter from Kalvåg. Walking through the galleries, I came upon his 1920 painting entitled Marsmorgen (March Morning). This…
When I initially read Tom King and Bilquis Evely’s Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow earlier this year, I thoroughly enjoyed its depth and complexity on various levels, so I was very excited to see Craig Gillespie’s film based on the comic. I don’t want to get into the controversy surrounding the ways that the adaptation departs…
It’s June, and that means that we are almost halfway through 2026. It also means that it’s time for me to share some of the books I’ve been reading this year. To this point, I have read about seventy five books. That puts me halfway to my goal of one hundred and fifty books for…
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