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Disjecta: This weeks links
A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter —
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(Image: Francis Bacon, Triptych, May-June, 1973) Literature: J. G. Ballard : NPR publishes an excerpt from the Complete Stories Don DeLillo : A short story in the New Yorker , Midnight in Dostoyevsky Paul Auster : FlavorWire on Paul Austers Invisible Patricia Highsmith : Slavoj Žižek on Patricia ...7 hours ago -
Shallow Graves
Bookyards —
Authority: 135
From : The New Yorker Photo : http://www.newyorker.com/ The novels of Paul Auster Roger Phaedo had not spoken to anyone for ten years. He confined himself to his Brooklyn apartment, obsessively translating and retranslating the same short passage from Rousseau’s “Confessions.” ...14 hours ago -
Invisible by Paul Auster | Book review
The Guardian - guardian.co.uk —
Authority: 988
Paul Austers latest suffers from a surfeit of clashing voices and lack of credible characters, says Edward Docx Paul Auster is a writer with many skills: a disarming directness of style, a subtle ability to render subtle psychology, a connoisseurs feel for the novel form – its limits and its play – and much ...20 hours ago -
Illustrated and clothbound Auster.
Condalmo. —
Authority: 110
File under “that’s a lot of money for a book I already have in a different edition” and also under “but ooooo looky”: The New York Trilogy Paul Auster –> Published price: US$ 54.95 Add to basket Click image to enlarge more illustrations ...2 days ago -
Midweek Miscellany (Paul Auster Edition), November 25th, 2009
The Casual Optimist —
Authority: 122
The award-winning Folio Society edition of The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster and illustrated by Tom Burns has just about blown my mind. MUST. HAVE. James Wood on the novels of Paul Auster in the The New Yorker : Auster is a compelling storyteller, but his stories are assertions rather than ...3 days ago -
Why James Wood is so Good…
NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS —
Authority: 473
NY Observer.The poetic use of words in unusual, appealing ways:an intellectual, lives monkishly, coddling a loss—a deceased or divorced wife, dead children, a missing brother. Violent accidents perforate the narratives, both as a means of insisting on the contingency of existence and as a means of keeping the ...5 days ago -
Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers
Omnivoracious —
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New York Times: Stephen King on Raymond Carver by Carol Sklenicka and Carvers Collected Stories : King is pro-Maryann Carver (with a fellow AAers disdain for Carvers drunken treatment of his first wife) and acidly anti-Gordon Lish: "Any writer might wonder what he’d do in such a case [as Lishs demand that ...5 days ago -
Paul Auster in New York Magazine
A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter —
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Paul Auster talks to Tim Murphy of New York Magazine about his new novel, Invisible : Tim Murphy: How much of Walker, the protagonist of Invisible —a handsome aspiring poet, in 1967, who is juggling a sexually sinister older European professor and a tortured French girlfriend, not to mention having a summer ...6 days ago -
James Wood on Paul Auster
A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter —
Authority: 132
James Wood of the New Yorker casts a wry eye over Paul Austers writing career, and questions his flirtation with postmodern fiction. Woods article begins with a parody of the quintessential Auster narrative: Roger Phaedo had not spoken to anyone for ten years. He confined himself to his Brooklyn apartment, ...6 days ago -
Daily Dose Pick: Invisible
Flavorwire —
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Invisible , Paul Austers newest and perhaps most accomplished book, is a suspenseful, psychological query on the natures of art and life, good and evil, and truth and memory.The story begins with Adam Walker, a bright-eyed aspiring poet at Columbia University in 1967, but quickly delves into a four-decade, ...6 days ago -
The New Yorker – Don DeLillo, Caster Semenya, Paul Auster and Gopnik on Cookbooks
Book Case —
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A good haul of interesting pieces from the New Yorker this week. A new short story by Don DeLillo, James Wood on Paul Auster, Adam Gopnik on why we love cookbooks and Ariel Levy reports on sport,sex and the case of Caster Semenya.Related posts:Siri Hustvedt and Paul AusterInterview: Paul AusterPaul Auster Nominated ...6 days ago -
Disjecta: This weeks links
A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter —
Authority: 132
(Herbert Bayer’s design for a cinema. 1924–25. Image via Design Observer ) Literature: Martin Amis on Vladimir Nabokov William S. Burroughs : Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer Paul Auster: The Rumpus interview with Paul Auster Will Self : Will Selfs introduction to ...1 week ago -
Bad Awards
Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes —
Authority: 542
Last week the Literary Review announced its nominees for its annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award, which seems to have prompted some ritualistic mea culpas. John Banville , who’s been on the shortlist before, smirkingly suggested he ought never write about sex again ; writing in the Telegraph , previous nominee ...1 week ago -
Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers
Omnivoracious —
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New York Times: Sunday Book Review cover: Steven Pinker on What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell: "The themes of the collection are a good way to characterize Gladwellhimself: a minor genius who unwittingly demonstrates the hazards ofstatistical reasoning and who occasionally blunders into spectacularfailures. ...1 week ago -
Obama in China & other links
PEN America —
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As you may have heard , Barack Obama has addressed the matter of press freedom on his visit to China. PEN American Center has been calling for Obama to speak up for free expression on this visit (see the letter signed by PEN president K. Anthony Appiah). It appears that Obama’s comments are being censored ...1 week ago -
Trip’s morning reading: More Medicaid money could be coming to NM
New Mexico Independent —
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Help to states might be on the way. Tucked within the U.S. House’s version of health reform legislation last week is a $23.5 billion pot of money meant for states to pay for six more months of extra Medicaid funding , The Washington Post reports. State officials across the land are crossing their fingers hoping ...1 week ago -
Paul Auster: Why Roth is wrong about the novel
A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter —
Authority: 132
Paul Auster speaks out to The Big Think , and "strenuously" disagrees with Philip Roths assertion that the novel is a dying art-form, fading from public relevance. He also speculates on the future of internet literature. Full interview with Auster available here . (via Norton Fiction .) More on A Piece of ...1 week ago -
Why Roth Is Wrong About the Novel
The Casual Optimist —
Authority: 122
“ Philip Roth believes books will soon be dead. Paul Auster respectfully—and strenuously—disagrees.” Isn’t this great? A full interview with Paul Auster is at Big Think . (via Norton Fiction on Twitter)1 week ago -
Anonymous Call Girl Author Belle de Jour Outed as "Slutty Scientist" Costume Incarnate [Revelations]
Gawker —
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Showtimes Secret Diary of a Call Girl was based on a series of bestselling books by anonymous prostitute Belle de Jour . How hot is this? Turns out shes a well-regarded British scientist, Dr. Brooke Magnanti . She came out last night. The actual identity of Belle de Jour was unknown to even her agent up until ...1 week ago -
Disjecta: This weeks links
A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter —
Authority: 132
(Image from The Folio Society : Paul Austers New York Trilogy ) This week introduces Disjecta , a new weekly feature of A Piece of Monologue . It aims to digest news across philosophy and the arts into manageable bitesize portions. And yes, this format is a blatant steal from 3:AM Magazine s superb ...2 weeks ago
