11 days ago by maitresse

Badaude is the bomb. But you knew that; she's the one who designed the wonderful new banner for my blog this summer. And apparently that task was quite inspiring to her, for when she met Sylvia Whitman in September at the Five Dials party (recounted here and here and here and documented here-- this ...

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17 days ago by Brooks

"That priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind, harnessed to that stupendous and threadbare glomerate compulsion called the soul, ambling down the most obliterated bridle path of Well and Ill, fortuitously planned--is the holy Habeas Corpus, the manner in which the body is brought before t ...

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20 days ago by badaude

Crazy week at Shakespeare & co.So what was it like? Well, most days went a little like this: Morning, walk to work past Notre Dame, gleaming. Arrive - tumbleweeds everywhere: unswept, unslept. Giro Playboy in the bathroom ('Would you like a coffee? A glass of wine?' 'A coffee.') Corinne sawing shelv ...

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21 days ago by badaude

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23 days ago by An Aesthete's Lament

"Don't sit up late. After all, what is there in this so-called social life of such worth that you leave your pillow to follow it into the early morning? Bad air, bad food, bad liquor, ugly surroundings that do not gladden the heart, stupid people who repeat, night after night, the same interminable ...

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53 days ago by New Directions

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55 days ago by Espai de llibres

Djuna Barnes té l’honor estrany de ser l’escriptora més longeva de tot el segle XX. I si no la més longeva en termes absoluts, que això no ho tinc comprovat, sí la més longeva d’entre totes les que van donar-se cita a París durant els anys feliços d’entreguerres. Ja hem parlat aquí alguna vegada d’a ...

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69 days ago by Catherine Borders

I’m reading Wittgenstein’s Mistress right now on the beaches of Anguilla. That line is actually a misnomer, since I’m sitting inside my hotel room typing these lines, but since my hotel room is on the beach, the location wasn’t false, just the act of reading Wittgenstein’s Mistress versus writing ab ...

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79 days ago by Martin

Normalvis forbinder man fester i parkeringskældre med uautoriserede piratfester, men den 12. september er det Københavns Kommune der holder fest i Fisketorvets parkeringskælder. Festen, eller klimaeventet som det vel retteligt er, starter klokken 20.00 og på scenen kan man blandt andre se Specktors, ...

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85 days ago by Larry Murray

Djuna Barnes and Natalie Barney, c. 1930 TS Eliot was willing to go to jail for Barnes. Hold on to those old letters! A British Library curator is dusting off proof that that most solemn and austere of the great poets was a great friend and supporter of lesbian writers. When he was a publisher at Fa ...

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