Commonplace Book: Balzac on Pity
Beware of pity. Continue reading Commonplace Book: Balzac on Pity
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Biography Mondays: Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion, by Gareth Stedman Jones
Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion is an indispensable volume, an epic about a man and his times. Continue reading Biography Mondays: Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion, by Gareth Stedman Jones
Photography Fridays: L.A. Babe: The Real Women of Los Angeles 1975 – 1988, by Moshe Brakha
“Paris had Brassaï. And Berlin had Newton. But Moshe had L.A., babe.” Continue reading Photography Fridays: L.A. Babe: The Real Women of Los Angeles 1975 – 1988, by Moshe Brakha
Commonplace Book: 3 Random Passages from Richard Makin Novels
Bendy words heaped into bulwarks. Continue reading Commonplace Book: 3 Random Passages from Richard Makin Novels
CRITICAL APPRAISALS: JOYCE / BECKETT // ASHBERY /// MAKIN – Part Four
Language is a toy, something played with, subverted, parodied, and explored. Continue reading CRITICAL APPRAISALS: JOYCE / BECKETT // ASHBERY /// MAKIN – Part Four
CRITICAL APPRAISALS: JOYCE / BECKETT // ASHBERY /// MAKIN – Part 3
Yet even an anti-novel is still a novel. Continue reading CRITICAL APPRAISALS: JOYCE / BECKETT // ASHBERY /// MAKIN – Part 3
CRITICAL APPRAISALS: JOYCE / BECKETT // ASHBERY /// MAKIN – Part Two
Both Ulysses and the Wake expose the frailties and chaos of language. Continue reading CRITICAL APPRAISALS: JOYCE / BECKETT // ASHBERY /// MAKIN – Part Two
CRITICAL APPRAISALS: JOYCE / BECKETT // ASHBERY /// MAKIN – Part 1
Richard Makin’s trilogy (Work, Dwelling, Mourning) represents a landmark achievement in (post)modern literature, one that avoids easy classification or explanation. Continue reading CRITICAL APPRAISALS: JOYCE / BECKETT // ASHBERY /// MAKIN – Part 1
Espresso Shots: Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho, by Samuel Beckett
Nohow On is about nothing. But like Jerry Seinfeld said, “Even nothing is something.” Continue reading Espresso Shots: Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho, by Samuel Beckett
Espresso Shots: Desert Tiles by Mike Corrao
Body horror collides with a kind of digital mysticism. Continue reading Espresso Shots: Desert Tiles by Mike Corrao
