Mrs. Begonia Contretemp

Title: Spokesperson for the Why-and-the-Wherefore Cohort, Nouvelle Vague Zwischenschaft (NVZ)

Role: Council Correspondent for European Disruptions, Cultural Etiquette Under Duress, and the Decorative Collapse of Civilizations

Notable Publications:

• IN SEARCH OF. . . — DEMOCRACY

• HIGH DUDGEON

• DO WHAT THOU WILT?—JUST DO IT?

• THE ECOLOGY OF UNSPOKEN THINGS

• THE CORN ALSO RISES

• HAIKUS OF THE HIGHWAY

• THE BANALITY OF THE REALITY OF CONSPIRACY TROPES

• GUTTER BALL

• BEING, KNOWING, AND THE SCULPTED BODY AT THE OUTCROP CAFÉ

• IRON CURTAIN TO PAYWALL

• On the Practical Union of Spirit & Matter

• TALKING POINTS AS TERMINAL ILLNESS

• THE SECOND SETTING OF THE WEST

• Talking Heads, No Neck Required (At First)

• IRONY AND TIN

• I Am Not Merely an Aesthetic Choice! —
  —Though I Do, Admittedly, Define the Standard the World Has Already Chosen.

• Mrs. Begonia Contretemp Interviews William S. Burroughs

• SUNSET OVER THE CITY THAT REFUSES TO BE ONE THING

• Against the Bleak Imagination: A Missive to My Sweet Catastrophists

• On the LLM, Correlation, Cosmic Horror, and the Snobbery of the Wordsmiths

• Names John Can’t Say, Ideas We Already Had

• COGITO ERGO HAM

• THE INVISIBLE CURRENT: On the Power of Certain Topics

• THE RE-TURN OF THE CRANK — A MEDITATION ON THE CIVILIZED ECCENTRIC

• I Went on a Cruise So You Wouldn’t Have To

• On Gallows Humor and Metaphysical Merriment

• He That Hath Eyes: A Report on the Updated Ideal

• FROM FATIGUED TO FATIGUES

• EPISODE 2: Slouching in Bethlehem, PA

• The Decline of Gay Mirth

• EPISODE 1. Skin and Harpoon: Barbs Against the Modern Bruise.

• THE SIXTH PARADOX
  And Banned Book Week.

• VOTES FOR THE UNBORN AND THE DEAD
• “Bella Ciao”???
  No, Bella Addio. A Council Meditation on Europe’s Slow Goodbye.
• NOT Tattooed Shock-troops of Deracination, but Cultured Guardians of the Hearth and Soil

• BETWEEN WAVES AND WANDERINGS

• The Village Was Right: Beneath the Infinite Veil of Romance

• ON THE GREAT BRAIN ROBBERY

• On the Bloomsbury Quietude, or How to Ruin Everything Without Raising One’s Voice

• A Council Prophecy Comes True (Again).

• Cultural Autopsy with a Garden Trowel

• From Effulgence to ‘Sus’: On Sloppy Dismissals of Artificial Intelligence

• A FEDERAL FOOD FIGHT? HOW VERY AMERICAN.

• THE COMPANY WE KEEP

• Punning on Empty: Notes on the Groan as Cultural Currency
• PHANTOM THREAD.
  — A Joint Consideration in two movie reviews.

• Declarations and Digestions: When Sovereignty Becomes Supper.

• CULTURAL AUTOPSY.
  WHO STOLE IL CORNO?

• A Bad Taste Liberation Front
• THE RISE OF THE NASTY PARTY
• VOCABULARY CREEP
• THE MEANINGFULNESS DEFICIT.