I read two hundred books this year. Crazy, I know. “Suffering” from segmented sleep certainly “helps,” as does “suffering” from…
Today’s Library Haul
Took out a mountain of books from the library this afternoon, in anticipation of National Translation Month.
On Robert Lopez’s All Back Full
Robert Lopez’s darkly comical collections and novels are full of bizarre, dissolute isolatos moving in and out of desultory relationships,…
From Madeleine E.
[INT. Scottie’s Bedroom (NIGHT)] … There is no dead matter. Lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms…
“Serious” readers, and maybe why they’re so rare
Did you know there’s a Wikipedia entry for “Death of the novel“? Well, now you do, and it seems that…
Being About Aboutness
The title of Joshua Landy’s How to Do Things with Fictions should not lead you to believe that what is…
Rust Belt Bindery
Rust Belt Bindery is “a book bindery that’s committed to producing and distributing new work as well as repairing and rebinding…
Fifty Gestures of Love, in honor of William Gass (continued)
25 remaining, & here they are, picking up where we left off, with Tolstoy & his disgraced Natasha 26) The…
Fifty Gestures of Love, in honor of William Gass.
25 now, 25 to follow, with many thanks 1) In The Odyssey, there’s Penelope’s more intimate test of this stranger…
The Dividing Line, the Defining Meals: Kafka Sermon Final
For a few days here on Big Other, now while we’re still in soul-shot of Passover and Easter, I’ve been…