Tuesday, May 19, 2009

BOOKS TO READ THIS SUMMER, FALL,WINTER, SPRING

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BOOKS I WILL TRY TO READ AS IF REALLY IS THERE ANY DIFFERENCE: SUMMER FALL WINTER SPRING One Summer seems to be a time when people PLAN to r...
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009

SOME GOOD BOOKS and then a sad story

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48 Vladimir Nabokov once said that when he was sent a new novel he would open it, scan the pages and if it contained mostly dialogue he woul...
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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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