Some of us have been discussing long takes in movies, and John mentioned that he’d like seeing a list of…
Brevity, Part 1: The Malady of Death
The Grove Press edition of Margeurite Duras’s The Malady of Death (1982, English trans. 1986) is 64 pages long, and…
From Fellini to Obama?
So Nine bombed. But I don’t want to talk about that movie, which I haven’t seen. I’d rather talk about…
My Favorite New Movies of 2009
[Update: 2010 is here] [and 2011 is here] Here are my favorite new movies of 2009, like you care. I’m…
My Four Favorite New Books of 2009, part 5: Other New Books That I Enjoyed in 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 There are still more! Alphabetically, then…
My Four Favorite New Books of 2009: #4: Jeremy M. Davies’s Rose Alley
#1 | #2 | #3 #4. Rose Alley by Jeremy M. Davies (Counterpath Press, 2009)
My Four Favorite New Books of 2009, #3: Tracy Daugherty’s Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme
#1 | #2 | #4 MY FOUR FAVORITE NEW BOOKS OF 2009, CONT’D #3. Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald…
My Four Favorite New Books of 2009, #2: Ulrich Haarbürste’s Novel of Roy Orbison in Clingfilm
#1 | #3 | #4 #2. Ulrich Haarbürste’s Novel of Roy Orbison in Clingfilm by Ulrich Haarbürste (Serapion Books, 2008)
My Four Favorite New Books of 2009, #1: Mercè Rodoreda’s Death in Spring
#2 | #3 | #4 The problem with the internet is that one can read an online article for only…
Eliot’s Nocturnal Hackery (or, Moriarty in a Catsuit)
Lily’s appropriation thread reminded me of something that I had been reminded of only yesterday (but had since already forgotten).…