Monday, March 8, 2010

COMING! COMING! Reading LINDA LE'S Previous Novel in Preperation for What is Coming: THE THREE FATES

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In May, New Directions will be publishing Linda Le’s novel THE THREE FATES. To prepare the way I am publishing a review I wrote for the ...
Tuesday, March 2, 2010

TWO ILLUMINATING AND NECESSARY details from the Selected Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The following entry from the SELECTED JOURNALS of Ralph Waldo Emerson just out from the Library of America is one of the most touching parag...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

The Most Demeaning Publicity Letter

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I received this from Farrar,Straus & Giroux. It’s not the internships. It’s not the MFA programs. It’s not the time you spend at MacDowe...
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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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