Saturday, February 6, 2010

WHAT I AM PROBABLY NOT DOING, sadly

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PREFACE: To begin with a quote from: WWW Signandsight.com which is possibly the best literary cultural site in the world. Though mildly left...
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

BOOKS ARE RELICS

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.Books are relics. .In no way is this disturbing or sad or a cause for the usual dismay. .Most of my life was spent in the time of typewrite...
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Friday, December 18, 2009

STILL READING AGAINST and the MOST IMPORTANT book about the novel to be published

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8--Since my mother died on December 21, 1972 the Christmas holidays and the end of the year have been drained of some of the dreary levity t...
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Thursday, November 12, 2009

PAUL MORAND, ANTAL SZERB, JULIAN GREEN: Essential Books from PUSHKIN PRESS

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C On my shelves by PAUL MORAND: Black Magic Earth Girdled Green Shoots (Preface by Marcel Proust) Fancy Goods and Open All Night (translat...
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Friday, October 23, 2009

BEST READ WRITER IN THE WORLD: ROBERTO CALASSO

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(a ghost of these words appears in the 25 October 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Section) The Venetian painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo is...
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Thursday, October 15, 2009

JAMES WOOD and HAROLD BRODKEY

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---To write of Harold Brodkey is to speak of the dead and I fear of the really dead in the sense that he is now a forgotten writer... and s...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

WHY DOESN'T THE UNITED STATES HAVE A GREAT WRITER at the present moment?

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Nobel Prize season and again we have been spared the sad spectacle of a Joyce Carol Oates or a Philip Roth or a Don DeLillo getting the Nobe...
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