The blog, The Reading Experience, is a wonderful place. Daniel Green’s articles are very informed, looking at literary works and literary questions from many perspectives. This is from the “about” page: I was an academic scholar and critic before I began writing for this blog. I still write the occasional “academic” essay, and my approach [...]
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Daniel Green’s The Reading Experience
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Daniel Davis Wood, David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo, Gospel of Anarchy, Infinite Patience, Justin Taylor, The Reading Experience, Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis on September 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
William Gaddis TV Interview is now on-line
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged William Gaddis, William Gaddis interview on July 10, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Enjoy! The TV interview is 30 minutes. The full one hour interview is on streaming audio here.
Plunging Puigward: Welcome to La Plata, Mosca
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, Fake Fruit Factory, Manuel Puig, William Gaddis on March 4, 2011 | 6 Comments »
If you’ve been keeping up (or, like me, struggling to keep up) with the Big Other Book Club thus far, you’ve at least dipped into Tom McCarthy’s C and a Mary Caponegro story or two. And in so doing, you’ve experienced some delectable, rich, intricately-knotted sentences. McCarthy’s writing felt mechanical at times to me, or [...]
No Ending to The Recognitions
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged The Recognitions, William Gaddis on January 13, 2011 | 6 Comments »
It took nearly five months but I managed to read all the words in William Gaddis’s The Recognitions. In honor of Old Masters use of triptych (Wyatt, the main character forges old Flemish paintings), this is the third in a series about reading the novel. The first concerning descriptions of the sun and the second [...]
Report from the middle of The Recognitions
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Ernest Hemingway, The Recognitions, William Faulkner, William Gaddis on October 15, 2010 | 6 Comments »
(First post on The Recognitions) In the middle of this wonderful book, many characters are running around trying to one up most everyone else–most significantly the character Recktall Brown (yes, Recktall Brown) has the forger Wyatt making false masterpieces of 500 year old Flemish Art. But Otto, the failed and flailing playwright, in love with [...]
The Sun is Your Friend (Read The Recognitions)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Elmore Leonard, Malcolm Bradbury, The Recognitions, William Gaddis on August 29, 2010 | 7 Comments »
This will be the first in what may prove to be several installments on this tome by William Gaddis. Yes, it’s 954 pages (Penguin edition). Yes, it’s astounding. I urge you to put aside all else and read this novel. Another author’s first rule on writing is to ‘Never open a book with weather.’ While [...]
Nuggets from Markson’s The Last Novel – more added 6/8
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Albert Camus, David Hume, David Markson, Dylan Thomas, Gustave Flaubert, Samuel Beckett, The Last Novel, Van Gogh, William Gaddis on June 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
You have to read fifteen hundred books in order to write one. Flaubert put it. *** People who more immediately think of Mersault as a character in Camus rather than as a dry white Burgundy. *** Not until a year after his burial at Sag Harbor did someone notice that the title of The Recognitions [...]
Guest Post, by Matthew Kirkpatrick: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Matthew Kirkpatrick, The Recognitions, William Gaddis on May 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played. – William Gaddis, the last line of The Recognitions
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