Wednesday, September 16, 2009

ERASING ERASURE HORROR MURDERING MURDER in books and in Estonia

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(including a first short homage to Juan Jose Saer) This entry did not begin with what now comes first but instead began with “Five” an...
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

INTO AMERICA: on the not reading of IMPERIAL by WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

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Going into America. Have you noticed that the reviews of William T. Vollmann's IMPERIAL have appeared and almost to a word they have be...
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Friday, August 21, 2009

BRECHT AT NIGHT:How Estonia takes up residence in the mind

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BRECHT AT NIGHT MATI UNT Translated from the Estonian By Eric Dickens Dalket Archive: 208pp., $13.95 In 1940, Helsinki received an un...
Monday, August 10, 2009

REALMS OF MEMORY, RETHINKING FRANCE and A.J. LIEBLING

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6 A celebration of REALMS OF MEMORY and RETHINKING FRANCE or LES LEIUX DE MEMOIRE but not forgetting A.J. Liebling Terrible things are alw...
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Sunday, July 26, 2009

RUSH OUT AND BUY IMPERIAL BY WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

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If America needs, as is often said A WRITER that one writer is: WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN. At the moment he is the only writer in Ameri...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

FRANK MCCOURT IS FINALLY DEAD

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The news has come that Frank McCourt is dead. I have heard of him and that is sufficient as Edward Dahlberg would say. Denis Donoghue was n...
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Monday, July 13, 2009

YOUR LIPS ROTTED AWAY

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In FADO a book of essays by Andrzej Stasiuk that Dalkey Archive is to publish in September there is a short essay on the Yugoslavian--- as t...