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There 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 Pascale
Sep 10, 20173 min read


The Author's Character
How 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 Pascale
Mar 8, 20147 min read


Franz Kafka: Physical Writing Process
Quartered 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 Pascale
Jun 5, 20114 min read


Jonathan Franzen: Physical Writing Process
Destroy the Internet In a recent post I wrote, “I tend to type my novels directly into GoogleDocs so that they are constantly backed up...

Joseph Patrick Pascale
May 9, 20114 min read
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