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Monday, December 29, 2014

Incognitum

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Two passages from Peter Blegvad's "Numinous Objects and Their Manufacture": Objects proliferate as never before, but they are...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

Out with the Old (2014)

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The sixth annual retrospective of the year's postings at this address. The Prehistory of Cronopios, Famas & Esperanzas (Episto...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

Notebook: Lost bibliography

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For just shy of thirty years I've maintained a little spiral notebook (now missing its back cover) in which I've recorded the partic...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

Fighting words

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The Spectator, 6 November 1852: Five publishers were yesterday summoned by Mr. Panizzi for the non-delivery of books at the British Museu...
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Sunday, November 30, 2014

Bonfires

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At first glance, Ana María Matute's 1960 novel Primera memoria seems much of a piece with the narratives with which she ended her car...
Saturday, November 29, 2014

Mark Strand (1934-2014)

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THE LATE HOUR A man walks towards town, a slack breeze smelling of earth and the raw green of trees blows at his back. He drags the we...
Friday, November 14, 2014

Childhood

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I seem to be reading the late Ana María Matute in reverse chronological order, having started with her last, uncompleted, novel, Demonios ...
Sunday, November 09, 2014

Aurora Bernárdez (1920-2014)

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Aurora Bernárdez, the first wife and literary executor of Julio Cortázar, has died in Paris. Though the couple divorced in the 1960s, after ...
Friday, November 07, 2014

Good people

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After the scarcely mitigated hell of the recently concluded election cycle, nothing would be easier (or, it would seem, more defensible) tha...
Friday, October 24, 2014

Last words

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No quiero ser un espectro más de esta casa... When she died earlier this year, the Spanish writer Ana María Matute left behind an unfini...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

A poet looks back

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Back in the late 1970s I read this translation by the late Gabriel Berns of what is actually only the first volume (comprising Books One a...
Monday, October 13, 2014

Celebrating Andy Irvine

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Andy Irvine has just released a live CD of his 70th-birthday bash two years ago, with a DVD promised soon, both of which are available di...
Wednesday, October 08, 2014

Things

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Things that fit in the hand. Things that follow us, but only from a safe distance. Things that are closer than they appear in the rear-vi...
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Saturday, October 04, 2014

Loss of faith

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This 1913 novel by Roger Martin du Gard may come across today as a somewhat curious project, a book that is not only a "novel of idea...
Saturday, September 20, 2014

Unearthly Loves

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I started reading modern Japanese literature in Spanish translation because there were a couple of books I wanted to read that didn't ...
Saturday, September 06, 2014

Seeing in the Dark

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I read this novel by Rupert Thomson shortly after it first appeared in the US in 1996 and again last week, and both times I had the same r...
Tuesday, September 02, 2014

Plan for an impossible novel

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There will be paragraphs. There will be punctuation. There will be no epigraph in Greek. There will be no cell phones, computers, or t...
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Saturday, August 30, 2014

The Beast (Óscar Martínez)

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A few years ago when I was doing some volunteer tutoring, one of my students was a young man from Guatemala (I'll call him S., though ...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Birth

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"The circumstances of my birth weren't extraordinary at all but they were a bit colorful, because it was a birth that took place in...
Sunday, August 24, 2014

Walking Around

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Every morning for the past few weeks I've been taking advantage of near-perfect weather and my early-rising habits to go for a long walk...
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