Thursday, October 2, 2008

Some Books to Know by: RILKE, LORD BERNERS, HAL BENNETT, HANNAH GREEN , JULIEN GRACQ, JAMES MCCOURT

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Following the example of Witkiewicz who recorded on each of his paintings the substance that he was using as he painted, I will write that i...
Friday, September 26, 2008

COMMENTARY ON TODAY: things don't change

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from H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. *...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

DAVID FOSTER WALLACE: Two sentences.

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"You live only as long as you can lie into the mug of anybody, and without batting an eye. And when you can't lie anymore, well, i...
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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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