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The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 2, 1941-1956

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on October 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

In just ten days this vital book will be published in the US. From the Cambridge University Press website:

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The World’s Twelve Worst Books?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on June 29, 2011 | 5 Comments »

The Circe episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses is a jeweled phantasmagoria; and it’s filled with incredible inventories, including one where Bloom’s “bodyguard distribute[s] Maundy money, commemoration medals, loaves and fishes, temperance badges, expensive Henry Clay cigars, free cowbones for soup, rubber preservatives in sealed envelopes tied with gold thread, butter scotch, pineapple rock, billets doux [...]

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Water, Mater, and Other Matters: A Review of Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on June 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »

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Beginning to Dig into Gass’s The Tunnel (1 of 2)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on April 18, 2011 | 11 Comments »

Gass on history: “What counts for me…is what happens to human consciousness…what was lost when you piled up bodies, what is gained when you decide not to.” – Bookworm interview with Michael Silverblatt  I felt ready for The Tunnel. I could have warmed up more with his first novel Omensetter’s Luck and read Gass’s fiction [...]

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We Know Best What’s Nearest (Living Art Backwards)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on December 13, 2010 | 28 Comments »

A quick follow-up to Tim’s post here, which was itself in response to Jackie Wang’s post here. Wang had asked: Do you feel a duty to read and acknowledge your literary, theoretical, and musical foremothers? I’d argue that most people have no idea who their artistic forebears are. For example: students tell me all the [...]

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“Fat, too, fool, hey?” – The Mind in Morning (Snow in film)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 23, 2010 | 19 Comments »

Having just reread William Gass’s “The Pedersen Kid” yesterday morning, I decided to do a study of associations–what my brain does as I read, what I think of, what I take away–though right there I sally and this Heraclitus quote, used as an epigraph in W.S. Merwin’s The Lice, drips back into my consciousness: All [...]

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Guest Post, by Darby Larson: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on May 4, 2010 | 3 Comments »

“They had heard or had heard said or had heard said written.” –From James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.

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Guest Post, by William Walsh: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on April 28, 2010 | 3 Comments »

“The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed.” —James Joyce, from “Araby” Dubliners (1914)

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Break Every Rule, Part 2

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on November 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Whereas the first chapter of Carole Maso’s Break Every Rule (I wrote about it HERE) is a kind of travelogue where cities or towns in Rhode Island, New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts, as well as in France, inspire reveries on home and language, the second chapter unfolds much differently. “Notes of a Lyric Artist [...]

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