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Monday, March 31, 2014

Silver Garden

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I know next to nothing about the group called the everybodyfields except that they popped up about a decade ago, made three records that ...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Notebook (March 2014)

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How many times has this happened? I'm out in a restaurant somewhere, hanging out with friends, and suddenly a song I've never heard ...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

Dance Respite, Dance Catalan, and if You Can, Dance Hopeful

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Translated, with permission, from Tororo's French original at A Nice Slice of Tororo Shiru . The year 2014 has been decreed the año Co...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

Julio Cortázar: A Model Kit

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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Julio Cortázar (in the suburbs of Brussels, August 26th, 1914, just days into the Ge...
Sunday, March 09, 2014

Favorite son

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Burnside Park in Providence, Rhode Island currently sports an installation of rotatable signpost sculptures, including the one shown here, ...
Saturday, March 01, 2014

Keisuke Serizawa: 1969 Calendar

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This hand-printed calendar was produced by the Japanese katazome (stencil-dyeing) master Keisuke Serizawa, whose mark can be seen just belo...

The passenger

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Call it an urban legend or what you will: here's a twice-told tale that only acquired its full impact years after the events it purports...
Saturday, February 22, 2014

The New Man

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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"

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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

Your Shoulders Hold Up the World

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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

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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...
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