About TRE

The Reading Experience is a literary weblog that began in January of 2004, at the beginning of the initial wave of blogs focused on writing and literature. While many of the functions first served by literary blogs--links to literary news and reviews, pithy comments on literary developments of all kinds--have now been assumed by social media, TRE continues to feature more extended literary criticism, including reviews, reflections on literary and critical practice, and longer critical essays.

 

Comments

[Majena Mafe]

Dear Daniel Green, finding and reading your work n this site has meant a lot to me and I just wanted to thank you for your thinking.

Though I'm writing in what feels like a vacuum I'm not and your articulation and contextualizing of ideas and approaches that are similar to mine gives me the feeling that there is an ear for work outside the dominant frame ... so thank you very much, your work has reinspired me and provided a 'virtual' lifeline. I will keep going.

wishing you all the best Majena

[Daniel Green]

Thank you very much for your nice words. Let me know where your work can be found and I'll lend an ear myself.

[Paul Hunt]

Daniel,

The project of literary pragmatism is to “bend” the vocabulary of linguistic philosophy so that, as Dewey would put it, it becomes more consonant with the “rhythms” of experience.

In all sincerity, I have achieved this. I call the resulting form of the work an “apomary.” So far, my queries to agents and publishers, regarding an “apomary about neopragmatism,” haven’t generated too much excitement. I first need the backing of pragmatist literary critics, who might attest to the groundbreaking nature of this work.

The Prelude is less than 800 words. I’d like to send it to you. You’d be able to ascertain in a couple of minutes whether the apomary is worth a closer look.

Best wishes,
Paul

[Dan Green]

Sure, go head and send it.