This month we are reading John Hawkes’s Travesty. Here is a reminiscence by John Barth from the NYtimes. Here is a tribute by Christopher R. Beha at The Believer.
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Special Bastille Day Soda Series this Thursday July 14th
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bastille Day 2011, Gary Lutz, Mary Caponegro, The Believer, Tim Horvath on July 11, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Join us for our special Bastille Day edition with Mary Caponegro, Tim Horvath, and Gary Lutz. Soda Series Facebook RSVP Mary Caponegro is the author of the short story collections Tales from the Next Village, The Star Cafe, Five Doubts, The Complexities of Intimacy, and All Fall Down. She is the Richard B. Fisher Family [...]
Reader Rage, Henry James Hate
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Temple of Texts, Anger, Arnold Bennett, Bill, Canal Street, Charles-Adam Foster-Simard, Edith Wharton, Hate, Henry James, Henry James and the Joys of Binge Reading, How to Make Sense, Literary Taste, People who hate Henry James, Philip Larkin, Quoting Philip Larkin's poem "This be the Verse" without giving him credit, Rage, Rudolf Flesch, The Believer, The Millions, Virgina Woolf, Ward, William Faulkner, William Gass on March 31, 2011 | 17 Comments »
To start, we have two simmering, searing proclamations: In A Temple of Texts, William Gass quoted Arnold Bennett’s book, Literary Taste: …your taste has to pass before the bar of the classics. That is the point, if you differ with a classic, it is you who are wrong, and not the book. (6) In the [...]
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