J.R.R. Tolkien’s not the only novelist who invented fictional languages! In Harry Mathews‘s early masterpiece, the epistolary novel The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium, newlyweds Zachary McCaltex and Twang Panattapam, separated by the Atlantic, exchange letters in which they “try to trace the whereabouts of a treasure supposedly lost off the coast of Florida in [...]
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A Pan-English Dictionary (for readers of Harry Mathews’s The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dalkey Archive Press, Franz Kafka, Harry Mathews, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium on July 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Contemporary Verse Novels: Robert Walser’s SPEAKING TO THE ROSE and Harry Mathews’s 20 LINES A DAY
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 20 lines a day, China, Cigarettes, Contemporary Verse Novels, Dream, flash fiction, Georges Perec, Harry Mathews, Marie Chaix, Prose Poems, Prose Poetry, Robert Walser, Speaking to the Rose, The Economist on March 19, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Contemporary Verse Novels continued . . . Okay, so, this is important (and many thanks to A. D. Jameson for pointing this out in my previous post’s comments): A book should probably not be called a Contemporary Verse Novel if it is not written in verse, which is to say, if it is neither lineated [...]
Contemporary Verse Novels: Carson, Saterstrom, Conrad, the Roubauds, Boully, and Ruefle
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 20 lines a day, alix cleo roubaud, Anne Carson, Aureole, autobiography of red, CA Conrad, Carole Maso, Contemporary Verse Novels, Essays, Harry Mathews, Jacques Roubaud, Jenny Boully, Mary Ruefle, Memoir, Novel in Verse, Novels, poetry, prose, Robert Walser, Selah Saterstrom, Speaking to the Rose, The Book of Beginnings and Endings, the book of frank, The Most of It, The Pink Institution on March 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »
What is a beginning? What is an ending? What makes a particular grouping of words become a poem or a story or a fiction or a non-fiction? And do these labels, these distinctions, even matter? For anyone who does not know, I’ve been reading and thinking about books that may or may not fit into [...]
Seventeen Ways of Criticizing Inception (AKA, All Knowledge Isn’t Equal)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Can Negative Publicity Help?", Against Interpretation, Alain Resnais, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Alan T. Sorensen, Annette Atkins, Ari Up, Banksy, Batman, Britney Spears, David Bordwell, Down with Love, Film Art, Frank Kermode, Frank Miller, Greg Gerke, Harry Mathews, Hollis Frampton, Inception, Jack Horkheimer, James Peterson, Jean Luc Godard, Jeremy M. Davies, Jonah Berger, Kristin Thompson, Last Year at Marienbad, Mai 68, mnemonics, Peter Wyngarde, Peyton Reed, Rose Alley, Scott J. Rasmussen, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Steve Katz, Susan Sontag, Tao Lin, teaching history backwards, The Sense of an Ending, Zorn's Lemma on November 14, 2010 | 10 Comments »
[This can be considered a response to this post, and its comments thread.] 1. You’ve just become the fiction editor of a small journal. You open your email and see that you’ve received 1,000 unsolicited submissions. The first ten were sent by: Carlos Shirley Jeanne Goss Jack Livingston Christine Stribling Melissa Mathieu Benjamin Tatro Tao [...]
“Twenty lines a day, genius or not.”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 20 lines a day, dalkey archive, Harry Mathews, november, stendhal on October 30, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Who’s this guy? What? You don’t know? It’s Stendhal! Who decided at one time or another that he would write “twenty lines a day, genius or not.” If that isn’t genius, I don’t know what is. Some time later, Dalkey Archive author Harry Mathews followed in Stendhal’s footsteps and also decided that he would write [...]
My Four Favorite New Books of 2009: #4: Jeremy M. Davies’s Rose Alley
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cigarettes, Counterpath Press, Dalkey Archive Press, Harry Mathews, Jeremy M. Davies, John Dryden, Lily Hoang, London, May 1968, Paris, Rose Alley, The Decameron, The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium on December 19, 2009 | 11 Comments »
#1 | #2 | #3 #4. Rose Alley by Jeremy M. Davies (Counterpath Press, 2009)
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