READING THE CANTOS I am not the only person in the United States reading The Cantos. I know because the…
Object Fiction?
In “Collaborating with Surveillance: Wolfgang Hilbig’s East German Fiction” (see below), Angela Woodward highlights, among other things, Hilbig’s tendency in…
Yi Yi: The Best Film You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
How often do two people who have been watching a film look upon each other breathless and transfixed at the…
“I don’t know why we live…but I believe we can go on living for the reason that life is the most valuable thing we know anything about”
From Letters of Note: In July of 1883, the novelist Henry James received an emotional letter from Grace Norton — a good…
Report from the Middle of The Ambassadors by Henry James
Embedding oneself in The Ambassadors by Henry James is like reading little else. Every time I take book in hand…
Putting the Parts Together
There are several ways to read the title of David Lodge’s novel about H.G. Wells, A Man of Parts. Lodge…
A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: The Tree of Life
[By now it was late. The three stars were dimpling the sky. The baby raccoon was crying for its milk…
Joy to the Reader When Reading Gass’s The Tunnel
How can I contain myself? (But perhaps the question is: how could Gass both contain and not contain himself to…
For Your Consideration IV – Gass/Stein/Music
“Why hadn’t I known long before reading Stein–was I such a dunce?–that the art was in the music–it was Joyce’s…