Asmussen English Tutoring

09/19/2025

https://chireviewofbooks.com/2025/09/18/the-truth-somewhere-as-palimpsest-an-interview-with-camille-ralphs/

When you read a poem by Camille Ralphs, you encounter an artistic sensibility that isn’t present in the work of most contemporary poets, what I would call a palimpsestic ambiguity. To be clear, I don’t mean in this grand phrase ‘ambiguity’ in the typical usage of ‘indistinct.’ What Ralph...

08/26/2025

See me wrestle with what is fair, what isn't, and how it doesn't amount to a hill of beans. Part 2 from my earlier Part 1!

"Intellectually, I could comprehend, as can most everyone, that life isn’t fair."

08/09/2025

Part 2 of my Ricks & Dylan story! Why would I get excited? https://margandmean.substack.com/.../meeting-the-critic...

07/30/2025

My look at the power of the literary critic, from an almost, shall we say, fan perspective. Part 1 of 2. Enjoy!

"Why would someone get excited meeting that guy?"

07/16/2025

Lying awake in bed, trying to come to grips with AI. Where will it lead us? What will it take from us? Come join me on my Substack.

So, is AI another ox, another species to harness and use for our human-centered purposes? Or have we now bit off more than we can collectively chew and fashioned our inevitable downfall?

07/09/2025

What does social media do to us? A better question might be, what are we doing with our time? And how can Nietzsche help?

Time hasn’t done anything to us; we’ve done something to time. Time wasn’t sucked away from us as innocent bystanders; we flushed it. We victimized ourselves.

06/24/2025

Ready to dig in!

06/23/2025

Just reread John Cheever’s story “Goodbye, My Brother” for the first time in 2, 3 decades. Thrilling to read again those magnificently crafted sentences. Forget the biblical symbolism, just notice how accurately & poignantly he writes about the sea.

06/18/2025

Hello, all! I'm starting a Substack. Would you join me weekly in my investigations into the humanities, culture, and how these intersect with education/ethics? My first post of intent is up now. Thank you in advance!

A look at my motives...

06/12/2025

A tutee of mine is currently working on a literary analysis paper for us on The Great Gatsby. We’re going to focus on everything from argumentation all the way down to syntax (particularly sentence fragments!).