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The Writer as Reader: Melville and his Marginalia 22 Aug 2013 | 12:52 pm
William Giraldi on Herman Melville and Moby Dick From the LA Review of Books (thanks to Matthew Feldman for the link): In the General Rare Books Collection at Princeton University Library sits a stu...
Photography in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz 21 Aug 2013 | 09:44 pm
A thirty-minute video traces the images of Sebald's final novel From source.ie (thanks to Richard West for the link): W.G.Sebald's Austerlitz is, at first sight, a normal novel. OK, it doesn't have ...
Embracing The Quirkiness Of Djuna Barnes 21 Aug 2013 | 09:10 pm
A story from NPR Djuna Barnes From NPR (thanks to Cathryn Setz for the link): A writer, illustrator and provocateur in the Roaring '20s, Djuna Barnes stood out. "She was much more interested in em...
Zibaldone: The Notebooks of Giacomo Leopardi 21 Aug 2013 | 09:08 pm
Cynthia Haven on Farrar, Straus & Giroux's new 2,600 page edition Zibaldone: The Notebooks of Giacomo Leopardi From The Book Haven: Poet Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) is too little known in the U.S....
Call for Papers: Alain Badiou’s Ethics 21 Aug 2013 | 09:08 pm
An announcement from the International Journal of Badiou Studies Alain Badiou A CFP (Call for Papers) from the International Journal of Badiou Studies [www.badioustudies.org]: Badiou’s Ethics “Rat...
Laura Frost, The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents 21 Aug 2013 | 09:08 pm
A new title from Columbia University Press Laura Frost, The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents From Columbia University Press: Aldous Huxley decried “the horrors of modern ‘pleasu...
Siri Hustvedt on Djuna Barnes and Nightwood 21 Aug 2013 | 09:07 pm
American novelist and essayist acknowledges the influences of Barnes and her work Solita Solano and Djuna Barnes From NPR (thanks to Cathryn Setz for the link): The spring after I turned 24, I disc...
Henrietta Alice Metcalf: Performing Arts Photographic Collection 21 Aug 2013 | 09:07 pm
Online gallery of digitalised images available to browse Sarah Bernhardt; "Dame aux Camelias"; Photographer: The Falk Studios; Sydney From ExploreUK (thanks to Cathryn Setz for the link): Henrietta...
Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam 18 Aug 2013 | 03:39 pm
Ruth Scurr reviews Atwood's new novel in the TLS Margaret Atwood From Ruth Scurr (TLS): “The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind.” Margaret Atwood found this first epigraph...
On the Disappearance of Used Bookstores 18 Aug 2013 | 03:39 pm
Charles Simic reflects on the loss of rare and unusual books The Last Bookstore in downtown Los Angeles From Charles Simic (NYR): Used-book stores are disappearing in our day at an even greater rat...
