“Saul Steinberg, the artist, said one of the major problems for the creative person is to avoid boredom. . .…
Fifty Gestures of Love, in honor of William Gass.
25 now, 25 to follow, with many thanks 1) In The Odyssey, there’s Penelope’s more intimate test of this stranger…
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…
#AuthorFail 15: Jeff Bursey
Welcome, dear failures, to the penultimate #AuthorFail…super-hero edition. My Schnide-y sense is tingling, and it says this column will soon…
Plunging Puigward: Welcome to La Plata, Mosca
If you’ve been keeping up (or, like me, struggling to keep up) with the Big Other Book Club thus far,…
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…
Style as Imitation
1. My father, who once trained as a baker, taught me when I was a kid how to bake an…
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…
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,…
Nuggets from Markson’s The Last Novel – more added 6/8
You have to read fifteen hundred books in order to write one. Flaubert put it. *** People who more immediately…