<h4>Jeremy Schmidt is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at UCLA. His dissertation explores questions of skill and effort in contemporary American poetry, and his writing has appeared in The Believer, the Boston Review, and Lana Turner.</h4>

Jeremy Schmidt

Jacquelyn Ardam is the author of&nbsp;Avidly Reads Poetry&nbsp;(NYU Press, 2022) and the assistant director of the Undergraduate Research Center for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at UCLA. Her writing on literature, art, and culture has appeared in&nbsp;the&nbsp;Los Angeles Review of Books, Bookforum, LitHub, Hyperallergic,&nbsp;Public Books,&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Toast, as well as in academic journals.&nbsp;

Jacquelyn Ardam

On Excess: Susan Sontag’s Born-Digital Archive

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

Jeremy Schmidt is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at UCLA. His dissertation explores questions of skill and effort in contemporary American poetry, and his writing has appeared in The Believer, the Boston Review, and Lana Turner.

Jeremy Schmidt

Articles

On Excess: Susan Sontag’s Born-Digital Archive