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“Enough of that. And of this.”
on Oct 29, 2009 in Uncategorized The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and the heart showing themselves in the minute, strange and unexpected combinations of letters and words, in the blackest and coldest print – the love which had to be hidden as if it w...
John Williams: Stoner
on Oct 26, 2009 in NYRB Classics Williams John The cover design of the NYRB Classics edition of John Williams’ novel Stoner might have been expressly chosen to emphasise that, even though the book was published in 1965, this is not a sort of literary Cheech and Chong. It is a sober study...
Tao Lin: Shoplifting from American Apparel
on Oct 22, 2009 in Lin Tao Melville House Tao Lin is a writer I’ve been meaning to read since seeing praise for his novel Eeeee Eee Eeee. Lin is a self-made phenomenon, seemingly as interested in presentation of himself as in his work, perhaps as keen on ‘being a writer’ a...
Simon Crump Interview
on Oct 19, 2009 in Crump Simon Interviews “If I was born with a name like Simon Crump,” said Chris de Burgh, “I would spend the rest of my life trying to get all that anger and resentment out of me by being very rude about other people.” I recently reviewed Neverla...
Stefan Grabiński: In Sarah’s House
on Oct 14, 2009 in Grabiński Stefan After enjoying two titles by CB Editions – Gert Hofmann’s Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl and Christopher Reid’s The Song of Lunch – I went on a spending splurge and bought three more of their buff-backed books. They a...
Vivant Denon: No Tomorrow
on Oct 9, 2009 in Denon Vivant NYRB Classics Back in the mid-1990s, when novella trumpeters such as Pushkin Press and Melville House were not yet born, the grandaddy of cheap paperbacks Penguin quietly issued a series called Syrens. (So quietly, alas, that they quickly disappeared without trace...
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