Dreamers Rise

Dalkey Archive Press / Deep Vellum Publishing is re-issuing seven books by Harry Mathews, according to Publishers Weekly , which notes that...

Harry Mathews, summarizing the medical theories of the "philosopher-dentist" R. King Dri: The human body, richest of nature’s fr...

The writer and publisher Alastair Brotchie has died, according to social media announcements by the Atlas Press , of which he was the propri...

When I first read this 1978 novel by Georges Perec in David Bellos's translation years ago I recall being entertained but also perhaps a...

Slawomir Rawicz was a Polish military officer in World War II who in the 1950s dictated to a ghost-writer a stirring account of how he and s...

What I'll be reading this Fall: Mike Wallace's Greater Gotham , the long-awaited sequel to Gotham: A History of New York City to 18...

The attractions: solitude and secrecy—the orchard in the hills like a kingdom, the forbidden manufacture of liquor a prowess all my own, ble...

The writer Harry Mathews died yesterday. Weirdly, I found out because I looked him up to see what he was up to, well knowing that he was get...

Rabelais: Bacbuc threw something into the fountain, and suddenly the water began to boil fiercely, as the great cauldron at Bourgueil does w...

In a 2013 post I juxtaposed the self-glorifying funeral instructions left by Oscar Thibault, the patriarch in Roger Martin du Gard's ...

After a long illness, Oscar Thibault, the grand paterfamilias of the Thibault family, has died, and among his papers his son Antoine finds i...

An online journal called The Quarterly Conversation is devoting a good part of its Fall 2012 issue (#29) to a special feature entitled An A...

The wealthy amateur Grent Wayl invited me to his New York house for an evening's diversion... I picked up this volume in the Strand Book...

From an interview with Harry Mathews: INTERVIEWER Did Ashbery introduce you to any writers whose work you did read? MATHEWS Yes, thanks to J...