January 2011
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On Publishing In Today's Baffling Environment by... →
Atticus Books is a fine small press that’ll rock your boat. It’ll publish John Minichillo’s The Snow Whale this summer.
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Watch“Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?/Remember how she said that we would meet again some sunny day?”. (The Wall)
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Watt by Samuel Beckett....
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The Garden of Error and Decay →
the garden of error and decay is a data driven narrative by m bielicky and k b richter. not a game, not a nonlinear interactive story. sounds like reality, looks like hieronymus bosch. click on picture or title to begin the journey.
The Naked And The Conflicted →
only last week when discussing american literature in a group consisting mostly of european writers, the [suppressed] sexuality of the protagonist in [north] american literature came up. this article by katie roiphe does not seem dated, the discussion it might stir up still necessary - regrettably, it only discusses north american novelists. it would be interesting to see a similar analysis of...
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starting a fire →
metazen, since long a favorite daily lit diet apparently set fire to itself and rose from the ashes…the network thickens as “gobble and sands” hit the virtual press. needless to say, “housefire” is going to be lying around on the tables at the kaffe…
allthingsburn:
This blog is an extension of METAZEN, a sort of a sister-cousin site that focuses on...
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“» When I say you’re most precious to me, that’s perhaps not really...”
– Franz Kafka
awritersruminations:
W. H. Auden reading “Musee...
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Brilliant Kafka covers: by Peter Mendelsund →
kafka is also the poet of displacement and of a hitherto unknown darkness. beckett compared himself with kafka. and there’s great stuff on this master of the absurd at a piece of monologue.
fwriction:
These redesigns of Kafka covers are simply brilliant. I want to go to there:
Whenever I’m asked (and I’m asked with some frequency) which authors I’d most like to design jackets for, I...
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Hence No Need to Not Resuscitate
Dear Frank,
I know whereof you speak, vis à vis the greater Karma, and I applaud your efforts on behalf of which, regarding your recent Spider Incident.
Having left a trail of murdered rodents from Manhattan to Mississippi, I was finally forced to confront the error of my own ways. For some reason in the greater mystery of things, it’s been all lizards and bats since then, once a sparrow...
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#mushygushy
weird. were. word.
Catafalque. Cataclysm. Carl was a cuss head. Curious. Carnivorous.
RaNdOmInIuM MeChAnIcUm. Malodorous mobbing.
The mellifluous revolution lead to a ritual round of most delightful executions,
the teacher thought but didn’t say it. He said instead: nothing.
saw three little blind mice today; one in a trap i had set, chewing
away on a piece of...
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Watchmany of these scenes were actually shot in the rooms of the kaffe in katmandu. i know, amazing, isn’t it. the actors made a real effort to get up in the himalayas. bebe zeva allegedly met a yeti who wanted an autograph and who admitted to reading metazen on a daily basis. awesome!
metazen:
oh fuck. this looks amazing.
mdmafilms:
“TRAILER 1” RE BEBE ZEVA (20 MAR 2011, PREORDERABLE...
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10 image bookmarking sites for visual inspiration →
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High Lithotomy
by Tara Larkin
He’s talking baby talk . Plus he thinks she’s volition-ally mute; like it’s a game she plays with the nurses. So she’s here for his respite. “She likes zoom zoom.“, he tells me. “ Like oatmeal, with other stuff in it. It’s hard to find. The brand name is Kruz, Krusteates…” “Crusty‘s?’ I ask. I try to keep my face neutral. I reckon the...
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Submit! →
I’m so excited to be invited to this group—thanks so much to Marcus!
I run a litblog (fwriction), and a literary journal (fwriction : review), both through Tumblr. Submit to the journal, all you damn fine writers!
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“Literature we may say is what goes on all the time history is what goes on from...”
– Gertrude Stein (‘Narration’, 1935)
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What did we do yesterday?
VLADIMIR: We're waiting for Godot.
ESTRAGON: (despairingly). Ah! (Pause.) You're sure it was here?
VLADIMIR: What?
ESTRAGON: That we were to wait.
VLADIMIR: He said by the tree. (They look at the tree.) Do you see any others?
ESTRAGON: What is it?
VLADIMIR: I don't know. A willow.
ESTRAGON: Where are the leaves?
VLADIMIR: It must be dead.
ESTRAGON: No more weeping.
VLADIMIR: Or perhaps it's not the season.
ESTRAGON: Looks to me more like a bush.
VLADIMIR: A shrub.
ESTRAGON: A bush.
VLADIMIR: A—. What are you insinuating? That we've come to the wrong place?
ESTRAGON: He should be here.
VLADIMIR: He didn't say for sure he'd come.
ESTRAGON: And if he doesn't come?
VLADIMIR: We'll come back tomorrow.
ESTRAGON: And then the day after tomorrow.
VLADIMIR: Possibly.
ESTRAGON: And so on.
VLADIMIR: The point is—
ESTRAGON: Until he comes.
VLADIMIR: You're merciless.
ESTRAGON: We came here yesterday.
VLADIMIR: Ah no, there you're mistaken.
ESTRAGON: What did we do yesterday?
VLADIMIR: What did we do yesterday?
ESTRAGON: Yes.
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All you guys ever blog are l i e s.
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creato:
All you guys ever blog are l i e s.
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Good Readers and Good Writers
yeahwriters:
by Vladamir Nabokov (1948)
My course, among other things, is a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures.
“How to be a Good Reader” or “Kindness to Authors”—something of that sort might serve to provide a subtitle for these various discussions of various authors, for my plan is to deal lovingly, in loving and lingering detail, with several European...
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The Philosophical Novel →
In this NYT article Ryerson refers to a number of my favorite authors and philosophers. i find it interesting that there may be both an interest and a market for the “philosophical novel” perhaps because that is what i also would like to write. i also like the quote by goldstein: [when you write such a novel] you don’t just understand, but “you feel the problem”....
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