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June 25, 2014August 29, 2023 - Archives, Uncategorized

Inverse of distraction

At the very moment the book is dematerializing, it is becoming more embodied than ever, the book celebrating the fetishization…

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May 31, 2011June 1, 2011 - Uncategorized

Poetry vs. Pop Culture (or, Does Anyone Dance to John Berryman?)

I was going to post this as a comment on Michael’s wonderful post from yesterday, but then it got too…

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May 11, 2011May 12, 2011 - Uncategorized

B.S. Johnson’s Final Film: “Fat Man on a Beach”

In addition to being a superb writer (one of the finest of the past fifty years, by my reckoning), B.S.…

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February 13, 2010April 30, 2011 - Uncategorized

Innovation in Art

What is innovation in art? This is something I’ve circled in my other posts, for example: “Notes on Twee, part…

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January 31, 2010May 19, 2012 - Uncategorized

Tiny Shocks: Uncovering the Reductive Plot of James Wood’s How Fiction Works

[Update: As if this post weren’t long enough, there’s now a Part 2.] On January 22, I read Shya Scanlon’s…

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