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10 days ago by Mark Garvey

It should be clear by now that I am a fan of Strunk and White's classic book of guidance and inspiration for writers, The Elements of Style. If you've followed Text Arts for a while, you may recall that not everyone shares my feelings for that famous little collaboration. There was a dust-up a coupl ...

Text Arts - blog.textarts.com · 3 references

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11 days ago by David

Son dernier livre publié en France est même carrément sinistre et ne ressemble en rien à ceux qui ont fait de lui pour certains lecteurs français un auteur adulé (qu’on se souvienne de La mezzanine, d’ A servir chambré ou du Point d’orgue). Quoique… Obsessionnel de l’observation et du classement, Ba ...

Ces mots-là, c\'est Mollat - blogs.mollat.com/litterature · 5 references

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19 days ago by Jim H.

This is not Jim H. sliding down a waterfall in Gorges State Park in Western N.C. this weekend. ------------------ This post on Nicholson Baker's Mezzanine generated far and away the most comments of any post of mine here at WoW. It was spirited and probing, the kind of discussion one wishes every po ...

Wisdom of the West - wisdomofthewest.blogspot.com · Rank: 142,167 · 9 references

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19 days ago by Gayla

What caught my eye this morning: At Critical Distance, an essay on Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine. I adored that book when I read it, despite my suspicion that Baker is well and truly nuts. The essay, by Stephen Augustine, is well-written and interesting, if a little scattershot. Also, it uses the ...

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26 days ago by Ed

I. Dickens turned out a number of Pickwick every month from March 1836 to November 1837--but November of 1836, Dickens also took on the editorship of Bentley's Miscellany, and in January of 1837 he graced its pages with the first installment of Oliver Twist. From there on, for nearly a full year, Di ...

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30 days ago by Nikola

Au programme, deux lectures (Martinet, Baker) suivies de l'Arrache-Coeur 304 (Baillon, Baker, Chesterton) et du Kaléidoscope 12 (Gottlieb), à écouter sur cette page à partir de demain. LECTURES: Jérôme (1975) de Jean-Pierre MARTINET, éd. Finitude, 2008: Lecture par Nikola... Human Smoke (2008) de Ni ...

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32 days ago by sonyachung

3 June 2009 BookExpo America wrapped up on Monday, and I’m still catching up on all the “alert” updates I received from Publisher’s Weekly over the weekend. Some highlights that caught my eye: “There are fabulous novels by William Trevor [ Love and Summer, Viking, Sept.], A.S. Byatt [ The Children’s ...

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35 days ago by Shannon Piserchio

I feel like writing today, but the words aren't able to find the escape hatch. It's possible that there's just too much in there and the sieve is clogged. I finished reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy a couple of days ago. I don't think I've ever read anything so depressing in my life. I kept hopin ...

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46 days ago by theexile

Nicholson Baker’s Vox (Vintage Contemporaries, 1993) made me want to cook. I finished reading the novel and felt the urge, the desire, the need to do something physical, something with my hands. Cooking came to mind — my one specialty, lemon-oregano roast chicken. Images filled my thoughts: plunging ...

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52 days ago by BLAKE BUTLER

Heading to Ann Arbor tomorrow afternoon through Monday for Hobart weekend reading and the Ann Arbor Book Festival: if you are in the area, come out to a reading! Flyer is a couple posts down... 2/3rd done with Baker's 'Human Smoke,' I've never been so engrossed by historical texts before, it is an i ...

G D C S + S W D P - gillesdeleuzecommittedsuicideandsowilldrphil.com · Rank: 8,197 · 111 references