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Friday, October 21, 2011

Still Playin'

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In the first quarter of the 20th century it gradually dawned on a generation of entrepreneurs and budding media moguls that that there was m...
Sunday, October 16, 2011

Wormwood, and Others

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Marvin Malone , who was the editor of the Wormwood Review for almost its entire long run, sounds like he must have been an interesting pers...
Saturday, October 01, 2011

The survivor

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(Found on the body of a partisan)* My Dearest M—, As you are no doubt aware, on the 12th day of this month the invading army, after an exten...
Friday, September 30, 2011

Laccabawn to New York

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The letter transcribed and reproduced here is part of a small cache of correspondence exchanged between Margaret Nagle or Neagle, a young I...
Sunday, September 18, 2011

Cortázar: Los relatos

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I revisit many of the stories in these three volumes quite regularly, particularly the first, but lately I've been realizing that I have...
Saturday, September 10, 2011

An Open Letter to Gustavo Ribeiro

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Dear Gustavo , You’ve asked for a few thoughts on how Cortázar is seen in the US. I’m not an academic and I haven’t made any systematic effo...
Friday, August 26, 2011

Ilion

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For most of this summer I've been devoting this space to looking at images and inscriptions from some century-old postcards, trying to ...
Saturday, August 20, 2011

New pastures

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These photographic postcards, issued by the Rotograph Co., were sent as New Year's greetings. The sender is unidentified, but the inscri...
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Saturday, August 13, 2011

Mr. Greenawalt's world

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This is a moderately interesting postcard view of the City Hall Park in lower Manhattan area looking with the East River and Brooklyn in the...
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Saturday, August 06, 2011

Buildings and inscriptions

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These four postcards were each sent to unmarried women members of the Bergin family at their address on Canonbury Road in Jamaica, Queens. ...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

"The juiciest lemon I ever struck"

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All eight of the postcards shown here (see previous post ) were published by companies in Sullivan County, New York but have markings indica...

Notes for a Commonplace Book (9)

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On the care of books: When in 1773 the Society of Jesus was ordered dissolved, the books stored in the Society's house in Brussels were ...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

Cortázar and books

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Nine years after Julio Cortázar died in Paris in 1984, his library of some 4,000 volumes was acquired, with the co-operation of his litera...
Saturday, July 23, 2011

The Bergin postcards: an introduction

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These cards, postmarked between 1905 and 1908, were mailed, with one exception, to two women who resided at Canonbury Road (now 90th Avenue)...
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