Tuesday, December 25, 2007

JULIEN GRACQ, GLENWAY WESCOTT, JULIAN GREEN, WILLIAM MAXWELL

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57 The news arrives of the death of Julien Gracq. If you were reading the New York Times you learned nothing of who this man was and why--- ...
Friday, December 21, 2007

FADE OUT, DOUGLAS WOOLF, GLENWAY WESCOTT

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494 FADE OUT seems like a perfect title for what a blog is all about,really, a reflection of the inevitable personal urge toward such an act...
Tuesday, December 11, 2007

DIANE WILLIAMS, KGB BAR, JOHN (JACK) O'BRIEN, HISTORIC DOCUMENTS II

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92 Diane Williams and Alain Arias-Misson read the other night at the KGB bar on East Fourth Street in the East Village. The obscenity of nam...
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Monday, December 10, 2007

BAUDELAIRE, ERNST JUNGER, EZRA POUND, THE ESSENTIALLY HELPFUL

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7 In addition to the ABC OF READING by EZRA POUND (1) I want to let you know about a few other essentially helpful small books INTIMATE J...
Thursday, December 6, 2007

A.L. KENNEDY, CHARLOTTE RAMPLING,DAVID MARKSON, HISTORIC DOCUMENTS

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749 During the next few weeks I will be reading and then finding 800 words for Day the new novel by A.L. KENNEDY. On a whim I put her name ...
Wednesday, December 5, 2007

YEAR END BEST BOOK AND SUCH MATTERS

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( + ) CAHIERS/NOTEBOOKS 3 by PAUL Valery, Published by Peter Lang is the best book of 2007. By picking this book of course I am giving in ...
Sunday, December 2, 2007

YEAR END, PHILIP ROTH, NELIDA PINON, ROBERT PINGET, BARBARA WRIGHT

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63 This is the week when the English and Irish newspapers and magazines run their BOOKS OF THE YEAR. I read the sections in the TLS, The Sp...