Tuesday, April 28, 2009

ANOTHER ASPECT OF DUMBNESS in the work of Elaine Showalter

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Another aspect of the dumbness of Elaine Showalter became apparent when a friend, TW sent me a list of his favorite novels written by wome...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

A GREAT MODEL OF ACADEMIC STUPIDITY: Elaine Showalter

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An underlining idea of what I have been trying to do is that one should never really trust academics when it comes to literary matters. The...
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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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