Over at the Reading William Gass website, curated by Stephen Schenkenberg, a video has been unearthed of Gass talking in…
Animal Studies & Rilke’s “Black Cat”
“An animal looks at me. What should I think of this sentence?” –Jacques Derrida In today’s print issue of the…
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…
“Fat, too, fool, hey?” – The Mind in Morning (Snow in film)
Having just reread William Gass’s “The Pedersen Kid” yesterday morning, I decided to do a study of associations–what my brain…
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On a sunny day I would argue that the first 46 pages of William Gass’s Reading Rilke: Reflections of the…
Is he wrong?
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, for you are not poet enough to call…
New Article on Rilke
Ange Mlinko’s insightful “Angels to Radios: On Rainer Maria Rilke” appears in The Nation. An excerpt: Rilke had been fascinated…
Break Every Rule, Part 2
Whereas the first chapter of Carole Maso’s Break Every Rule (I wrote about it HERE) is a kind of travelogue…
Mailboxes, Recommended
A century after Rilke wrote his famous letters to Franz Kappus, the literary-epistle game has changed. We want more than…