Writing the title of this post actually felt very silly; it seems such an arbitrary way of gathering a list of writers to look out for. What could be sillier than singling out writers in this way, according to their age? Surely, there are more worthy criteria. Well, there is an answer to what could [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Ursula K. Le Guin’
Guest Post, by Ken Sparling: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ken Sparlng, THE DISPOSSESED, Ursula K. Le Guin on May 5, 2010 | 5 Comments »
“There was a wall.”
Thinking About Poets Writing Fiction
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Charles Baxter, Eugene Lim, Fugitive Pieces, Michael Hulse, Michael Ondaatje, Miners Pond, Renee Gladman, Rikki Ducornet, Robert Creeley, Skin Divers, The Island, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, The Weight of Oranges, The Winter Vault, Thomas Hardy, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Gass on February 16, 2010 | 35 Comments »
I finished reading Michael Hulse’s new translation of Rilke’s anguished novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge this past Valentine’s Day. (This is the fourth translation I’ve read of the novel.) Written in seventy-one luminous fragments, the novel coheres into a brilliantly lacquered mosaic. As expected from this meditant of meaning, of memory, the novel [...]