June 2010
9 posts
Kafka’s Parable About Himself →
So I was bored this weekend and I need some more practice reading aloud… And put this little doozy; judge me harshly.
via On Parables.
Electric Lit App Out Yesterday →
From the press release:
Electric Literature is the first literary magazine to release an iPad edition, ElectricLit FREE, available now in the iTunes store. The app, featuring enhanced…
Kerouac’s Margin →
Ian Frazier has a gem of little article in the New Yorker on famous literary marginalia; anecdote included Nabokov, Plath, Twain, and Coleridge. But my favorite is this one about Kerouac:
A few of the marginalia in the books were wordless—for example, in Jack Kerouac’s copy of “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,” by Henry David Thoreau. Kerouac possessed this book but did not own it,...
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Historical Fiction →
I really enjoy historical fiction. It’s great to hear two authors like Neal Stephenson and Greg Bear discussing how they approach historical sources, and even Wikipedia, for their…
Happy Bloomsday! →
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. All over the world people are celebrating the 29th anniversary of…
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David Foster Wallace on “Prior To” →
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@doctorow do you usually stick to that or is their wiggle room? I have a bad habit of getting distracted with new projects. in…