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…
Hugh Kenner Hits a Home Run
Wouldn’t it take an outsider to aptly critique the American scene, the American people, the American culture? Hugh Kenner, a…
Coming: The Sounds of Sam Lipsyte in The Fun Parts
THE SOUNDS OF SAM LIPSYTE In the next few weeks we will hear that Sam Lipsyte’s The Fun Parts (Farrar,…
Kellie Wells’s Fat Girl, Terrestrial
“Chronology commits you to a straight line, I said. This story’s ovoid.” But no, not ovoid either. Vertical. Kellie Wells’s…
Mini-Review of Paolo Portoghesi’s Nature and Architecture
Take shelter from the rain under a leaf. Look toward the light pouring from a dome’s oculus. Here ears become…
Beginning to Dig into Gass’s The Tunnel (1 of 2)
Gass on history: “What counts for me…is what happens to human consciousness…what was lost when you piled up bodies, what…
Happy Year of the Rabbit!
Gung Hay Fat Choy! I missed Wallace Stevens week last fall because of a hectic schedule, but here’s “A Rabbit as…
Happy Birthday, Emily Dickinson!
John Domini has reminded me that 180 years ago today Dickinson was born. Recently, I was told by someone that…
“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…