My first book, the prose collection, Amazing Adult Fantasy, is now available. Interested parties can order it here. Of it, others have said: “Adam Jameson’s amazing adult fiction is alive with the life of language. Like Céline or Gertrude Stein, Jameson’s fiction works if the language works and the language works so the work works. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘The Middle Mind’
My First Book, Amazing Adult Fantasy, Is Now Available
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D Jameson, alice blue review, Amazing Adult Fantasy, Curtis White, Edgar Degas, elimae, Harp & Altar, Like Blood in Water, Malcolm Felder, Memories of My Father Watching TV, Mutable Sound, NOÖ Journal, The Middle Mind, Three Blondes and Death, Yuriy Tarnawsky on February 15, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Curtis White on Wallace Stevens
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Curtis White, The Middle Mind, The Necessary Angel, Wallace Stevens on November 19, 2010 | 16 Comments »
The following is taken from White’s excellent book The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don’t Think for Themselves (2003 HarperCollins) (reprinted with permission): “Wallace Stevens’s little book of essays, The Necessary Angel (1942), deserves far more relevance than it seems to have in the present. Stevens’s book is intelligent, humane, and inventive in a way that [...]
Tiny Shocks: Uncovering the Reductive Plot of James Wood’s How Fiction Works
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ann Quin, B.S. Johnson, Breathless (1960), Breathless (1983), Chekhov, Cthulhu, Curtis White, Flaubert, G.I. Joe, Hamlet, Henry James, How Fiction Works, James Wood, Jean Luc Godard, Jean-François Lyotard, John Gardner, John Ruskin, Last Tango in Paris, Les Carabiniers, Madame Bovary, Nabokov, ostranenie (enstrangement), Saul Bellow, The 400 Blows, The Concept of Character in Fiction, The Middle Mind, Theodore Adorno, Theory of Prose, Three Blondes and Death, Tripticks, Viktor Shklovsky, Watchmen, William H. Gass, Yuriy Tarnawsky on January 31, 2010 | 42 Comments »
[Update: As if this post weren't long enough, there's now a Part 2.] On January 22, I read Shya Scanlon’s post “The Dull King”; on January 25 I read his second post “Cover Your Tracks.” Both were about reading James Wood’s How Fiction Works. Before that I’d heard of James Wood but hadn’t read anything [...]
-
Authors
-
John Madera
-
John Dermot Woods
-
Ryan W. Bradley
-
Michael Leong
-
Greg Gerke
-
Stacy Muszynski
-
A D Jameson
-
Tim Jones-Yelvington
-
Rachel Swirsky
-
Edward Mullany
-
Aya Karpinska
-
Paul Kincaid
-
davis schneiderman
-
Amber Sparks
-
Tim Horvath
-
John Domini
-
Elaine Castillo
-
Curtis White
-
Paula Bomer
-
James Tadd Adcox
-
Nick Francis Potter
-
Brian Kubarycz
-
Gabriel Blackwell
-
Janey Smith
-
Matty Byloos
-
J/J Hastain
-
Greg Hunter
-
Jeff Bursey
-
Paul Griffin
-
Chris Lites
-
-
Top Posts
-
Recent Comments
- Theory of Prose & better writing (ctd): The New Sincerity, Tao Lin, & “differential perceptions” | HTMLGIANT on Tao Lin, Richard Yates
- Fulcanelli on Critical
- John Domini on THE SOT-WEED FACTOR, A Duet: Part II; in which we discuss foundlings and feminists, the exhaustion of forms, Twin Peaks, and how literature can’t compensate for a lack of toilet paper.
- Purity of Essence on THE SOT-WEED FACTOR, A Duet: Part II; in which we discuss foundlings and feminists, the exhaustion of forms, Twin Peaks, and how literature can’t compensate for a lack of toilet paper.
