Wednesday, May 7, 2008

2666 BY ROBERTO BOLANO or HOW TO POSTPONE SUICIDE

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IN spite of what some might think I am still caught up in books and live in a state of actual anticipation. The other day is no exception. ...
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Sunday, April 20, 2008

PAY THEM NOT TO WRITE

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Vantzeti Vassilev reminded us that the Bulgarian communist regime in addition to helping writers not to write by sending them to luxurious w...
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Friday, April 18, 2008

LIBRARY OF AMERICA and LIEBLING and CELINE and DAHLBERG and a SAD LUNCH and a NOT SO SAD LUNCH

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28--- The publicity people for the Library of America must have missed sending me a copy of A.J. Liebling that just came out. An editor at ...
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Friday, April 11, 2008

PUBLISHING: WHAT THE WORLD IS MISSING

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20 Well, I did hear from Europa Editions about my manuscript: "I read your fiction with interest. You write with style and verve but,...
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008

POSTHUMOUS pleasure?

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---9--- Again, I am moving into the posthumous life Edward Dahlberg talked about in 1970 in his windowless apartment on the Upper West Side ...
Tuesday, April 1, 2008

WEEPING AND VOMITING: ethnicity, race and Borges

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THIS IS UNFINISHED,INCOMPLETE... A START: ---pre--- "Are we going around in circles? We're going around, perhaps, but not in ...
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Thursday, March 27, 2008

GORKY, TOM WHALEN, EDWARD DAHLBERG along with old complaints

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---morning--- In New York City if you have a car you have to move it twice a week for street cleaning. On the street where I live that...