Friday, April 3, 2009

THE SADDEST NEWS: The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

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Sadder even than the famous three saddest words in the English language according to Gore Vidal--- Joyce Carol Oates--- I see that Farrar, ...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

NEW and OLD: Lim, Marten and Fine

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In the background Joy Division as I type. SECTION ONE In the mail: WASTE by EUGENE MARTEN and FOG & CAR by EUGENE LIM. They came to me ...
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Monday, March 16, 2009

GHOSTS by CESAR AIRA with an afterword about teaching

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(a version of this review was published in the Los Angeles Times GHOSTS By Cesar Aira Translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews New Direc...
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Thursday, February 26, 2009

THE TWO GREATEST WRITERS and THE UTTERLY FORGOTTEN

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All of this is a gesture 1. The two greatest living writers who happen to be American are William T. Vollmann and James McCourt. I should r...
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Saturday, January 31, 2009

WHAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ and a few suggestions of what to read

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THE FIRST An Avalanche of shit is about the only way to think of the new books that are scheduled to come out in the near future even as pub...
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Thursday, December 25, 2008

VARIETIES OF FAILURE: Cheever. Messerli, Spicer, Littell and Cela

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y In the new year there will be much talk of John Cheever: two books from the Library of America will collect his stories and novels while t...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

ON BORROWED TIME: HARALD WEINRICH

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The following appeared today (23 December 2008) in the Los Angeles Times book blog JACKET COPY On Borrowed Time" at year's end The ...