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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Ron Padgett: "Scotch Tape Body"

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A commemorative broadside issued by Coffee House Press in 2011. Click image to read the poem.
Saturday, October 19, 2013

Of Love and Bears

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She had no idea what animals were about. They were creatures. They were not human. She supposed that their functions were defined by the siz...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

Alice Munro

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Congratulations to Alice Munro, the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. The limited-edition chapbook shown here, which contains ...
Saturday, October 05, 2013

Drinks with Paddy

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In spite of the title and its subject — the British traveler, wartime SOE operative, and writer Patrick Leigh Fermor — this little volume ...
Sunday, September 29, 2013

Klíma's Century

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The Czech writer Ivan Klíma, now in his early eighties, has survived the German occupation of his native land, during which he and his fam...
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Saturday, September 21, 2013

Notes for a Commonplace Book (12)

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The preferred reading matter of the Mexican writer and photographer Juan Rulfo, as described in Luis Harss & Barbara Dohmann's Into ...
Saturday, September 14, 2013

War (Joe Sacco)

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My impression is that, with some salutary exceptions, contemporary graphic novelists tend either to focus on personal traumas or strike ou...
Sunday, September 08, 2013

On the memory of stones (Benedict Kiely)

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— In Devon, he assures her, lived a man who experimented in dousing and other devilment. He found by means of his dousing pendulum that som...
Saturday, September 07, 2013

The cottage (Bernard MacLaverty)

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Cal heated a tin of beans and tasted himself slice after slice of bread at the fire. He fell asleep and when he awoke it was dark. He rubb...
Saturday, August 31, 2013

Seamus Heaney 1939-2013

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Across that strand of ours the cattle graze Up to their bellies in an early mist And now they turn their unbewildered gaze To where we w...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

Cortázar: Of piantados and idos

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Julio Cortázar's essay, "Del gesto que consiste en ponerse el dedo índice en la sien y moverlo como quien atornilla y destornilla...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

Living the disaster

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Takashi Sasaki is a retired professor specializing in Spanish philosophy, with a number of translations into Japanese of the works of Unam...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

Mary Jane (The Vulgar Boatmen)

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This song began its life on the Vulgar Boatmen 's 1989 debut album You and Your Sister, where it was performed as a full-tilt rocke...
Sunday, August 11, 2013

Botany

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He sought out inconspicuous things that could be only be found by those who already knew that they might be there. He learned that in early ...
Saturday, August 10, 2013

Death of a Translator

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Dora Knowlton Ranous's English version of Flaubert's L'Éducation sentimentale doesn't have much to recommend it (other th...
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Sunday, August 04, 2013

Weapons

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Every autumn the fire department put on a turkey shoot as a fund raiser. No turkeys were involved — or rather there were turkeys but they we...
Friday, August 02, 2013

Memorial Day

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The children were darting in all directions, in blue Cub Scout uniforms with yellow neckerchiefs if they had them or play clothes if they di...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Why have they killed Jaurès?

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Today is the 99th anniversary of the assassination of Jean Jaurès, the French socialist leader and parliamentarian who had struggled, vali...
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Saturday, July 27, 2013

Streets of the Spectacle

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It's February 1848, and Frédéric Moreau, the idle young hero of Flaubert's Sentimental Education , paces up and down the sidewalk,...
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Friday, July 26, 2013

Three portraits

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Three more Real Photo postcards, possibly from western Pennsylvania. The one above has the following inscription on the reverse of the c...
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