Translated from the Gibberish B. E. Hopkins

In the fall of 2006, my article “A New Test for Hachette Livre” was published in the Voices section of Tagaro.fr, the Web site of a French media company.

Oh, sure. You didn’t ask for it, but here it is: my Master’s thesis on Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Stephen Hero. I spent at least six months researching, writing, and refining this piece during my year in the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. [...]

In 1997, I won the Sophie Kerr Prize at Washington College. The prize is the nation’s largest undergraduate literary award, and it is given to the graduating senior deemed to have the highest literary potential in his class. Since 1997 was also the 30th anniversary of the prize, I received some media attention. Profiles on [...]

“My single constancy is love of life.” In a letter dated 22 April 1914, D. H. Lawrence wrote, “But primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.” Throughout his body of work, he attempts to change his reader’s outlook on Christianity and seeks [...]

As a freshman at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, I was lucky to discover Professor Robert Anderson, a die-hard Platonist and author of one of the most radical interpretations of Plato’s Theaetetus ever written. The first challenging paper I had to write in college was for Anderson’s Intro to Philosophy class: an analysis of various [...]

Welcome to Translated from the Gibberish, the blog of B. E. Hopkins, author of The Impediments to Joy. Not only is this a forum for discussing writing, it is also a place to find information and updates about B. E. Hopkins’s books, readings, and other literary news and events.