Who could imagine a US intelligence agent caring about Beckett?
The Disgraceful Materialisms of Joanna Ruocco
Ruocco writes to move matter; in a Ruoccan sentence, material operates as the image of the sentence, a figural singing out of the sentence as such, this dark matter, earthen, a realism not of a fiction but of the writing.
Book Club: The Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector – DAY 3
Day 3 of an in-depth dialogic inquiry into Clarice Lispector’s short fiction, in which her embrace of the body, linguistic innovations, and interrogations of gender, sexuality, and the limits of the human are discussed.
The multiplicity of binaries and hierarchies in Leon Neyfakh’s THE NEXT NEXT LEVEL testifies to a profound uneasiness regarding the center of power in America, cultural and otherwise.
Book Club: The Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector – DAY 2
Day 2 of an in-depth dialogic inquiry into Clarice Lispector’s short fiction, in which her embrace of the body, linguistic innovations, and interrogations of gender, sexuality, and the limits of the human are discussed.
My personal nomination for the greatest work of literature of the 20th century is Allen Carr’s THE EASYWAY TO STOP SMOKING, followed immediately thereafter by James Joyce’s ULYSSES.
Laurapalooza: Unbonneted with Nancy McCabe
I’m afraid Laura might be horrified that people are wearing sunbonnets, since she hated hers so much, and she might be somewhat bemused at our celebration of pioneer life accompanied by power point presentations and tweets.
Book Club: The Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector – DAY 1
Day 1 of an in-depth dialogic inquiry into Clarice Lispector’s short fiction, in which her embrace of the body, linguistic innovations, and interrogations of gender, sexuality, and the boundaries of the human are discussed.
The Weather Changed, Summer Came and So On – Pedro Carmona-Alvarez
The prose style is what a Scandinavian writer might assume an American reader considers quintessentially Scandinavian: clean, simple, efficient, sort of minimalist, like something from Ikea.
By taking issue with the conventions in the discourse around art, beyond aesthetics, the selected contributors deeply interrogate objects, labor conditions, and the transparency within ethics.