This is where I’ll keep my “writing portfolio” for the time being. I’m interested in the following general topics and want to continue learning more about them, so if you have any ideas or recommendations that you think I may benefit from, please do help me out. And if you’re looking to learn or write more about something you think I could help you with, please let me know and I’ll be happy to try to help! Eventually, I’m looking to graduate from blogging to actual long-form journalism, so if you happen to have any pieces you’d like me to write or projects you’re looking for help on, do let me know about that too. You can write to me at jacobhoerger@gmail.com.
Thanks for visiting : )
jacob hoerger
Science, Religion & Society
- “Missing the Night Sky,” The New Atlantis, Winter 2016 (forthcoming)
- “What Is Modern Science?” Medium, 2/21/2016
- “How Science Threatens Democracy” Medium, 5/26/2016
- “The Structure of Bacon’s Scientific Revolution,” Carleton College, revised Fall 2015
- “How Do Scientists Function Without God?” The Carletonian, 1/19/2014
Literature
- “Literature and Violence I: Does Good Fiction Require Violence?” Medium, 4/13/2016
- “Literature and Violence II: Do the Laws of Morality Apply to the Realm of Fiction?” Medium, 4/20/2016
- “Literature and Violence III: How is Violence Successfully Employed in Fiction?” Medium, 4/29/2016
- “Bob vs. Blob: Comedy and Tragedy in Shakespeare” The Carletonian, 4/27/2014
- “What’s Aeneas’ Tale to Dido doing in Hamlet?” Medium, 2/4/2016
- “If You Will: An Introduction to the Action of Twelfth Night,” Carleton Players’ Production, Fall 2015
- “Cervantes is Better Than Shakespeare,” Medium, 2/12/2016
- “Donkeyhotay? A Comparison of the Quixote and Apuleius’s Golden Ass,” Medium, 4/7/2016
- “Novus ex machina: More on Cervantes and Apuleius,” Medium, 4/18/2016
- “On ‘On Turning Ten’ by Billy Collins,” Medium, 3/5/2016
- “On ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’ by William Carlos Williams,” Medium, 1/17/2016
- “John Cage vs. Harold Bloom on Art and Reason” The Carletonian, 10/18/2014 (see here to listen to the Cage vs. Bloom Carleton Convocation exchange this is based on)
Russian Culture
- “Some Talk of Nabokov,” Medium, 4/22/2016
- “On Russian Lit, Russian Love, and Mayakovsky’s ‘Listen’” Medium, 1/28/2016
- “Russian Culture and the End of the World,” The Carletonian, 2/7/2014 (see here for “The Unwearable Lightness of Noon,” some Carleton students’ short movie referenced in this)
- Translation of “Hamlet, Act 0” by Lyudmilla Petrushevskya, Carleton College, Spring 2014
- “Lyudmilla Petrushevskaya and the History of the Russian Hamlet,” Carleton College, Spring 2014
- “The Marriage and Death of Alexander Pushkin” (with Mary Bagley), Carleton College, Winter 2013
Bodily Functions
- “Post-Modernity and Pro Cycling,” Medium, 6/9/2016
- “Ban Bland Bran Brands,” Medium, 5/3/2016
- “My Brief, Wondrous Life as a Professional Pooper,” Medium, 2/26/2016
- repackaged as “How to Make Money Selling Your Poop,” Thrillist, 5/26/2016
- On Dreams (with Jedediah Quickquack), Medium, 5/26/2016
Politics
- “All of the States’ State Mottos, Power Ranked” (with Michael Tolan), Medium, 5/22/2016
- An obligatory Trump post, Medium, 3/19/2016
Some Freewriting/Adventures in Verse
- Angels or America (with Michael Tolan), (under book contract with Random House)
- Howl Erasure
- NYC Villanelle
- Excerpt From an Endless Summer
