Thursday, October 16, 2008

2666 BY ROBERTO BOLANO, TRUE CRIME and TRANQUILITY: some hints for reading now

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bbbbb 2666 By Roberto Bolano has landed and will be making its way into bookstores. It probably should have come with stickers: ONLY TO B...
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

J.M.G. LECLEZIO: Getting older sometimes just means getting older

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t Let's not kid ourselves into thinking literary prizes are meaningful. They are a real pain in the ass. You will have seen the film ...
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

AIDAN HIGGINS: How His Writing Died

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THIS IS A MODEL FOR HOW TO READ I was asked by Cornelius Anthony Murphy (Assoc Prof)--- as it is listed on his e-mail---to write about ...
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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...