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Show yourself!
No guns in our house/Welcome to hard times This is from Alec Soth’s blog: It is interesting how the cover images affect our reading of the book. But equally influential is the author photograph. In...
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David Foster Wallace, on Television, on Television as the Dominant
I’m very fond of quoting from Roman Jakobson’s 1935 essay “The Dominant”. Lately I’ve been thinking about this passage in particular: We may seek a dominant not only in the poetic work of an individual...
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We Know Best What’s Nearest (Living Art Backwards)
A quick follow-up to Tim’s post here, which was itself in response to Jackie Wang’s post here. Wang had asked: Do you feel a duty to read and acknowledge your literary, theoretical, and musical...
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Touching on Grief: On the Story “Dreaming Before Sleep,” by Kathryn...
Due to a violent death in my family, I found myself unable to read or write for about five months. It’s as if being robbed of a person wasn’t enough: I was also robbed of the things that made up my...
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From the Barbaric Heart: Michiko reviews my unwritten book!
I’m going to post three short things regarding the NY Times book reviewer Michiko Kakutani. They are mostly lies and venom, except one, the third, which is God’s truth. All of my recent posts,...
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