Dreamers Rise

UNDERGROUND RIVERS

Saturday, February 22, 2014

The New Man

›
As far as I can tell there is no "biography" of Julio Cortázar in English, though there are any number of book-length critical stu...
Saturday, February 08, 2014

The Prehistory of Cronopios, Famas & Esperanzas (Epistolary Phase)

›
Julio Cortázar's Historias de cronopios y de famas, a volume of short, unclassifiable whimsical fables and texts, was published by Fran...
Saturday, February 01, 2014

Travelers

›
Evolutionary biology and biogeography are basically outside of my bailiwick here, not because I'm not interested in those fields (I am) ...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

Man of letters

›
Alfagura began issuing this five-volume expanded edition of Julio Cortázar's letters in February 2012, but it's taken me a bit to ...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Mexico City

›
I approach the heart of the city down a narrow, winding road that weaves among thick settlements of low buildings and clusters of trees. (I ...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

"He was my brother"

›
The letter below was sent to the American writer Toby Olson on October 1, 1971. A few weeks earlier the poet Paul Blackburn, Julio Cortázar...
Wednesday, January 01, 2014

Back to the Garden

›
In A Medieval Garden: Instrumental and Vocal Music of the Middle Age and Renaissance by Stanley Buetens Lute Ensemble I bought a copy of ...
Sunday, December 29, 2013

Goriot

›
Without really intending to, I seem to be following the course of the French novel in reverse chronological order, which, if you ignore th...
Saturday, December 28, 2013

Out with the Old (2013)

›
The fifth annual retrospective of the year's postings at this address. H. N. Werkman Borges and Xul Solar Echoes of War Dark B...
Saturday, December 21, 2013

From the House of Bondage

›
Yale University's Beinecke Library has announced the acquisition and authentication of a 304-page manuscript said to be the earliest ...
Thursday, December 12, 2013

Les chansons d'Émile et Zachary dans l'univers

›
Hard on the heels of his 2012 CD Le fou , (which is currently up for a Grammy), the Louisiana singer and songwriter Zachary Richard ...
1 comment:
Thursday, December 05, 2013

Your Shoulders Hold Up the World

›
A time comes when you no longer can say: my God. A time of total cleaning up. A time when you no longer can say: my love. Because love ...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

Life Underground

›
When I was a kid I lived in a neighborhood that overlooked a lake, and when we had nothing to do my friends and I would sometimes go down th...
Saturday, November 09, 2013

Step It Up and Go

›
Lowry Hamner and Jon Sholle playing a Blind Boy Fuller tune; Mt. Kisco, NY, November 2013. Video by Frank Matheis from thecountryblues....
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Ron Padgett: "Scotch Tape Body"

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

Of Love and Bears

›
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

›
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

›
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

›
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...
1 comment:
Saturday, September 21, 2013

Notes for a Commonplace Book (12)

›
The preferred reading matter of the Mexican writer and photographer Juan Rulfo, as described in Luis Harss & Barbara Dohmann's Into ...
‹
›
Home
View web version
Powered by Blogger.