Mitch HamptonMar 16 minMarch Post: The Reception of Art and Personal ExperienceWe like March. His Shoes are Purple — He is new and high — Makes he Mud for Dog and Peddler. Makes he Forests dry. Knows the Adder Tongue...
Mitch HamptonFeb 19 minFebruary: An Aesthete Travels in Middle AgeMany of our common social dictums, however hoary they may in fact be, contain at least partial truth as much as they do falsity. One...
Mitch HamptonJan 17 minOn the Aesthetics of our Snapshots as History TurnsThe month of January of course makes me think about the passage of time - both within single eras and from one era to the discontinuous...
Mitch HamptonDec 1, 20225 minSnapshots In Season One of the results of having the immensely good fortune to be able to host this podcast has been the development of my “snapshot” idea or...
Mitch HamptonNov 1, 20227 minThe End of The PhoneFor what I now realize was quite a long period of time, from 1987/88 when first I lived on my own to about 2007 or so, the phone occupied...
Mitch HamptonOct 1, 20229 min"Acting in Character""Usually there is a protagonist who the audience watches the movie THROUGH. But then you need that OTHER guy in the story." (Ned Beatty,...
Mitch HamptonSep 1, 20225 minStyles of Back to School Prose With September comes thoughts of endeavors that get categorized in our culture as intellectual pursuits. Part of this is of course the...
Mitch HamptonAug 1, 20227 minGetting philosophical with Snapshots,Books and BeachesAugust is, of course, a central month in the Summer. In the past year I have been organizing all of my personal effects, mainly...
Mitch HamptonApr 1, 20226 minArts and HumanitiesApril:On Getting in Touch With One's FeelingsGeorge W. S. Trow, the public intellectual, humorist, essayist, screenwriter, journalist and many other things, closes his last book...
Mitch HamptonFeb 1, 20226 min It's All In The Style"I am not saying that a work of art creates a world which is entirely self-referring. Of course works of art (with the important...
Mitch HamptonJun 1, 20216 minPodcast "June is Busting Out All Over"June is busting out all over! Art, criticism and how we discern what we love.
Mitch HamptonSep 3, 20204 minPodcast Our "Back to School" PostAn inside look at our September episodes and the connectivity of all the arts.