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April 1, 2020 - Archives, Birthday, Books, Reading, Review, Writing

From the Archives: Reading Díaz, by Samuel R. Delany

  Today is Samuel R. Delany’s birthday. Celebrate by reading this Delany essay we published April 5, 2019!   With…

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May 27, 2019March 15, 2019 - Books, Reading, Writing

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: From Gray’s Anatomy

“The femur is the longest and strongest bone in the human body.” Here’s a sentence from Gray‘s Anatomy that my…

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May 20, 2019May 20, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: From Joanna Russ’s And Chaos Died

“The Big One was obviously one of those epoxy-and-metal eggs produced by itself—the Platonic Idea of a pebble turned inside…

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April 5, 2019December 6, 2019 - Books, Reading, Review, Writing

Reading Díaz, by Samuel R. Delany

With time and tempests everywhere To rafts of frail assumption cling The saintly and the insincere; Enraged phenomena bear down…

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July 30, 2012February 25, 2019 - Books, Reading, Uncategorized

For Big Other on William H. Gass’s Birthday

If one tried to construct the Temple of Literature from only the fifty “pillars” below, it would collapse spectacularly. Nevertheless,…

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