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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alexandra Harris, Cecil Beaton, Evelyn Waugh, John Piper, Juliet Gardiner, Virginia Woolf on September 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »

That we live in different worlds was brought starkly home to me earlier this summer when I read, in succession, two books about the 1930s. The first was The Thirties: An Intimate History by Juliet Gardiner, an exhaustive account of Britain in the decade that begins in the working class streets of Glasgow, and though [...]

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#AuthorFail 8: Alexandra Chasin

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Virginia Woolf, Alexandra Chasin, Emily Dickinson, dogs, #AuthorFail, The Waves, On Being Ill, Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain, McGill Pain Questinnaire, Dr. Paul Brand, Philip Yancey, The Gift of Pain, Dr. Henry K. Beecher, Harvard Medical School, Anzio effect, World War II, Pavlov, Ronald Melzack, Lang College, Kissed By, The New School, New York on July 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Greetings, earth people, from the (pain) planet failure. Here, the atmosphere is different. The stars are different. The entire sense of the project-to-be, an examination by NYC writer (and my collaborator) Alexandra Chasin, requires more preliminary work into the nature of the question: and what of it, when the question is pain? Here, the question [...]

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A Review of Sir Thomas Browne’s Urne Buriall, or a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns Lately Found in Norfolk

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, George Saintsbury, John Madera, New Directions, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne Burial, Urne Burial or a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns Lately Found in Norfolk, Urne Buriall or a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns Lately Found in Norfolk, Virginia Woolf on June 6, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Ostensibly a history of the ways humanity has, across history, housed the mortal remains of its dearly, or otherwise, departed, Sir Thomas Browne’s Urne Buriall is a lyrical, voluptuous, and evocative meditation on mortality, fate, and fleeting fame.

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Kimiko Hahn’s THE NARROW ROAD TO THE INTERIOR

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Carole Maso, Kimiko Hahn, Rachel Blau du Plessis, The Narrow Road to the Interior, Virginia Woolf on April 30, 2011 | 6 Comments »

The Narrow Road to the Interior by Kimiko Hahn, 128 pp, $14.95 1. First Impressions This book is both less and more exciting to me than the others I’ve discussed here (The Artist’s Daughter and The Unbearable Heart). It is less exciting because it’s not as penetrable, but it is more exciting because of this [...]

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

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1978 Cincinnati Fiction Festival, Andrei Tarkovsky, Atom Egoyan, Butcher's Crossing, Carl Jung, Cormac McCarthy, Fargo, Greg Gerke, Harmonium, Heraclitus, Hunters in the Snow, James Joyce, John Gardner, John Madera, John Williams, Lydia Davis, Metaphor as Degeneration, Mirror, Nick Ripatrazone, Pablo Picasso, Pieter Bruegel, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Altman, Solaris, Stanely Kubrick, Steven Soderbergh, The Auroras of Autumn, The Pedersen Kid, The Snow Man, The Sweet Hereafter, This Solitude of Cataracts, Virginia Woolf, W.S. Merwin, Wallace Stevens, William Gass 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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Break Every Rule, Part 2

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrey Tarkovsky, AVA, Break Every Rule, Carole Maso, he American Woman in the Chinese Hat, James Joyce, Jean Luc Godard, Lyric Novel, Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, Virginia Woolf 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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Posts Tagged ‘Virginia Woolf’

Other Worlds

#AuthorFail 8: Alexandra Chasin

A Review of Sir Thomas Browne’s Urne Buriall, or a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns Lately Found in Norfolk

Kimiko Hahn’s THE NARROW ROAD TO THE INTERIOR

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

Break Every Rule, Part 2

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