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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Permutations of Mathews

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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...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Notes for a Commonplace Book (8)

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From an interview with Harry Mathews: INTERVIEWER Did Ashbery introduce you to any writers whose work you did read? MATHEWS Yes, thanks to J...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

Pleasures of the Macabre

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Thomas Ott is a Swiss artist and graphic novelist whose work consists largely of wordless images rendered with scratchboard and whose tastes...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

The Wanderer

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"This singular being, whose nationality is unknown, converses with no one and wanders forlornly without a seeming motive, or definite o...
Monday, March 07, 2011

Ithaca

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He drove south in steady rain as night fell. The radio was staticky from distant lightning and when the station began to fade in and out he ...
Sunday, March 06, 2011

Flying slowly

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By now, the status of the airship as an emblem of a kind of alternative, softer version of modern technological development is a well-establ...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Of barricades, and dreams

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Things seem to be happening so fast of late -- governments falling, state houses under occupation -- that it can be hard to know what to mak...
Sunday, February 13, 2011

Supertest

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Ganonoque, Ontario, 1940
Monday, February 07, 2011

Adele

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She never knew her mother's family and had few memories of her father, none of them distinct. When she was four years old he had walked ...
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Monday, January 31, 2011

Margaret and Alexander Potter

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This Puffin picture book, which was published in the mid-1940s, is by the husband-and-wife team of Margaret and Alexander Potter. The human ...

Swedish Summer

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While trying to scan some photographs from an old paperback I was having issues with pixelation. Rather than try to fix the problem (and not...
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Sunday, January 30, 2011

The Coup

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Just ahead of dawn the young sentry in the lobby of the interior ministry, bored and sleepy after yet another overnight shift alone, heard t...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Jules Shear: Between Us

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Jules Shear has been around the music business for more than two decades, having composed several songs that became at least minor hits for ...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011

A Manhattan Mission

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The Cremorne McAuley Mission, at 104 West 32nd Street near Sixth Avenue, New York. The engraving, which probably dates from around 1883-84, ...
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Sunday, January 09, 2011

Judge on Trial

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I first read this novel in 1993, the year it was published in the US by Knopf, but the copyright date of the Czech edition, Soudce z milosti...
Sunday, January 02, 2011

Acrobats

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Like Ivan Klíma himself, the narrator of the "The Tightrope Walkers," the fourth and final story in this 1985 collection, has spe...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Wish list

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If someone would like to translate these books for me as a personal favor I'd be really quite grateful. Thanks. Ivan Klíma, My Mad Centu...
Sunday, December 26, 2010

Notes for a Commonplace Book (7)

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Tony Judt : We often find ourselves asserting or assuming that the distinctive feature of modernity is the individual: the unreducible subj...
Sunday, December 05, 2010

Out with the Old (2010)

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The second annual retrospective of the year's postings at this address. The Frogs' Discovery When the Money Was Gone The Assault of ...
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