Thursday, September 11, 2008

An ordinary incident in one of their camps in Communist Bulgaria

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Something from my other life. ...as is what I took from George and I am telling Karri about George's story which I took to calling The S...
Wednesday, September 10, 2008

LIBRARY OF AMERICA: why it is the center of any real library

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A. The LIBRARY OF AMERICA is one of the brightest lights in the dimming world American publishing and I have followed it since its beginning...
Monday, September 8, 2008

ALFRED A KNOPF PUBLISHERS DIED or is Sonny Mehta Really Dead?

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The news arrived today that some time ago the venerable publishing house of Alfred A. Knopf died. The death notice arrived in the form of t...
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Sunday, August 31, 2008

NOT TO BE READ and a little discovery

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reading reading not to be read reading not to be read not to be read. Increasingly, I have given up any thought that my manuscripts will eve...
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Thursday, August 14, 2008

WHEN A WRITER STOPS WRITING NOVELS: MARK DINTENFASS

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93 In 1968 when Lilia and I went from Sofia via Dublin to join my parents in their exile in Menasha, Wisconsin I came to learn the name of a...
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Friday, August 1, 2008

A RETURNING FROM THE VOYAGE WORSE FOR THE WEAR

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19 --Fragments which in many ways exemplify the total powerlessness of writing in such a medium. --Back from a voyage with my son through th...
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Friday, July 11, 2008

GOING AWAY MIDST PRINTED PAGES: a voyage with my son

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Going away always provokes the question: what to read? Next week we set out on a voyage to Arizona and California. I have been sorting out j...