Xenith Book Club: The Waste Land
By PatrickNathan • Aug 1st, 2008 • Category: NewsXenith makes a valiant attempt to discuss T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece.
[ z ē ' n ĭ t h ] -noun 1. an arch wherethrough gleams that untraveled world…Xenith makes a valiant attempt to discuss T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece.
Xenith’s first attempt at a more structured prose contest, awarding the winner with a novel or short story collection of their choice.
Just one brief assignment for this demanding month, a mere essay, online and free to all:
“How to Build a Universe that Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later” by Philip K. Dick
As made famous in the film Waking Life’s “Tango of Yes” scene, this essay regards the mystical claims made about Dick’s celebrated novel, Flow My [...]
I’ve randomized our MySpace friendlist after deciding that Xenith’s collection of friends is a work of art in itself.
Aside from allowing me absurd hyperbole that is nonetheless true, this lets us play a game I like to call Ask the Xenith Oracle.
Just hold a question in your mind, view Xenith’s profile, and see what our [...]
I have reformatted Issue 43 into a work of sheer magnifique. Come one, come all to see!
The Hall of Fame forum has been renamed and repurposed into something more useful.
It’s now called the Brag Board and you are encouraged to post publishing successes, acceptances, wins, and personal projects like chapbooks and whatnot.
Brand yourselves!
The latest book for Xenith’s Book-of-the-Month club has been chosen and we are going classic. June’s book is The Iliad by Homer and the discussion will be led by our resident expert, Hannah E. V. Culik, a Classics undergraduate at University of Oxford in England.
Contains discussion questions for May’s book of the month: Autobiography of Red.
Xenith’s first issue in over four years serves as both a return to form and the harbinger of a new era. Accordingly, several pieces in this issue deal with loss, transformation and new beginnings. We’ve collected writing from some of our finest authors and present them here, to you, as an introduction to that inimitable [...]
Why hello my fellow Xenithites.
I post this with the hope that we can give the old poetry contest another try. I have decided that I will run it this time, and believe me, I will track you down if I think you would be a good contestant and you haven’t entered yet.
It will go like [...]