Recommended What to Read, mid-December edition 12 Dec 201712 Dec 2017 Much good writing is out there online, just waiting for you to read it. The trouble? There's no way any one of us can catch it all, but here's a…
Lists… What I’m Reading: Artist Jeff Sylvester 4 Dec 2017 If at first glance you believe you’ve got a handle on what Jeff Sylvester is doing in his work and can afford to move along to the next artist, the…
Lists… What I’m Reading: Anna-Lynne Williams of Lotte Kestner 26 Oct 201726 Oct 2017 Why has the pleasure of slowness disappeared? Ah, where have they gone, the amblers of yesteryear? Where have they gone, those loafing heroes of folk song, those vagabonds who roam…
Commonplace… Commonplace #8 11 Oct 201711 Oct 2017 Years after the war, after marriages, children, divorces, books, he came to Paris with his wife. He phoned her. It's me. She recognized him at once from the voice. He…
Commonplace… Commonplace #7 3 Sep 2017 A lot of things had happened since that day. His luck had waxed and waned. Like a gambler he thought the equation even, though any plant, animal or mineral could…
Recommended… What I’m Reading: Writer Adam Hocshschild 29 Aug 201729 Aug 2017 There’s a moment early in Julian Barnes’s novel The Sense of an Ending when a precocious student - he’s in his final year of high school - defines history (as…
Commonplace… Commonplace # 6 28 Aug 201728 Aug 2017 That day, in any case, I had the audacity of the shy. I came to talk to you in private. - Florence Noiville, Attachment
Commonplace… Commonplace #5 1 Jul 20171 Jul 2017 What Those Women Knew To remember those feelings is to create them, to invite them to enter the body and to narrate their materiality, to image them to silent music…
Lists… What I’m Reading: Writer Brin-Jonathan Butler 27 Jun 201727 Jun 2017 Photo by Troy Turi, via https://us.macmillan.com/author/brinjonathanbutler/ In his essay “Homecoming,” the Hungarian writer Péter Nádas explores the idea of an individual’s natural language, a sort of default lens on the world.…
Recommended June: Read Your Caius Aquilla by John Andrew Fredrick 7 Jun 20177 Jun 2017 It’s said that a writer tells you how to a read a book with the opening lines. John Andrew Fredrick’s new novel, Your Caius Aquilla, isn’t shy about issuing those…
