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Friday, February 20, 2015

Nannie Wilson

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The young woman whose likeness was captured in this Real Photo postcard image was a schoolteacher in Red Wing (or Redwing), Kansas in 19...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Some rocks

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for Michael Leddy Top: Ogdred Weary (Edward Gorey), The Dancing Rock (bound with Dogear Wryde, The Floating Elephant ), The Fantod ...
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Friday, February 13, 2015

Kansas

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"Just a few of our crowd and guess you will know the majority of them. If not will tell you of them later." Mailed from Salina, Ka...
Friday, January 30, 2015

A death remembered

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This short novel, published in 1981, is based on an incident that had taken place some 30 years earlier, when a young man named Cayetano Gen...
Sunday, January 11, 2015

Visiting professor

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Clases de literatura: Berkeley, 1980, published in 2013, presents the transcription of a series of seminars that Julio Cortázar conducted (...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

Guru and Disciple (Yuri Arbatsky)

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From 1933 to 1942, the composer and ethnomusicologist Yuri Arbatsky traveled in the Balkans, studying and recording the folk music tradit...
Wednesday, January 07, 2015

"This was someone"

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Via R.B.
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Thursday, January 01, 2015

The Palace of the King of Night (Introduction)

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In the spring and summer of 2007 I wrote a narrative entitled The Palace of the King of Night, described in its subtitle as "a novella...
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...
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