Joseph Patrick PascaleSep 11, 20173 min readThere Are No Cups in Kafka’s Amerika“Sword? One supposes a mistake, since Kafka never saw the monument. Yet it grows increasingly clear that Karl has landed in a...
Joseph Patrick PascaleMar 8, 20147 min readThe Author's CharacterHow much does the character of the author affect the work? Death and a Dictionary I recently read Simon Winchester’s The Professor and...
Joseph Patrick PascaleJun 5, 20114 min readFranz Kafka: Physical Writing ProcessQuartered Onionskin Paper & My Own Blue Notebooks There’s an episode fairly late in Kafka’s life, September 1917 to April 1918, when his...
Joseph Patrick PascaleMay 9, 20114 min readJonathan Franzen: Physical Writing ProcessDestroy the Internet In a recent post I wrote, “I tend to type my novels directly into GoogleDocs so that they are constantly backed up...