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November 30, 2012March 7, 2019 - Books, Interview, Uncategorized

William Gaddis Interview

“Saul Steinberg, the artist, said one of the major problems for the creative person is to avoid boredom. . .…

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March 5, 2012March 19, 2012 - Uncategorized

William Gaddis Occupies Wall Street in JR

Dalkey Archive Press has just reissused two of the most important texts of the past sixty years–William Gaddis’s The Recognitions…

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January 13, 2011January 13, 2011 - Uncategorized

No Ending to The Recognitions

It took nearly five months but I managed to read all the words in William Gaddis’s The Recognitions. In honor…

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October 15, 2010October 16, 2010 - Uncategorized

Report from the middle of The Recognitions

(First post on The Recognitions) In the middle of this wonderful book, many characters are running around trying to one…

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August 29, 2010January 20, 2012 - Uncategorized

The Sun is Your Friend (Read The Recognitions)

This will be the first in what may prove to be several installments on this tome by William Gaddis. Yes,…

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May 23, 2010May 24, 2010 - Uncategorized

Guest Post, by Matthew Kirkpatrick: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love

He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it…

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