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Category Archives: Literature
Bill Murray Reads Wallace Stevens
Bill Murray loves poetry… including Wallace Stevens. Who knew!
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Raspail – The Camp of the Saints (1973)
Here’s an old SPLC memo warning about Jean Raspail’s novel The Camp of the Saints. Was this book, written 42 years ago, prescient or farcical? You decide: Le Camp des Saints, a 1973 novel by Frenchman Jean Raspail, was first … Continue reading
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The Reanimation of H.P. Lovecraft
In The Atlantic, Philip Eil writes on “The Unlikely Reanimation of H.P. Lovecraft”, which is seeing an explosion of popular culture interest in the master of horror. Like virtually every modern appreciation of HPL, Eil frets over the author’s “racism”: … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Race, White Identity
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Twain on Race
Responding to someone who cites Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson as a critique of the ‘race is a social construct’ notion, Charles Murray writes: “[Mark] Twain was astonishingly ahead of his time on race–and is treated as a racist in 21st … Continue reading
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Joan Didion: Slouching Toward Bethlehem
A few years ago, while on a trip to CA, I read Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem, a series of essays about CA written in the late ’60s. Didion was in the belly of the beast while writing the titular … Continue reading
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Coen Brothers & Ross MacDonald
I love the Coen Brothers and I love film noir. I especially love when the Coen Brothers do film noir, which is often. So this is thrilling news: Warner Bros has optioned the bestselling 1966 Ross MacDonald crime novel Black … Continue reading
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Fitzgerald and the Jews
One feature of Jewish paranoia is to ‘see’ anti-Semitism everywhere, under every rock, behind every corner. It’s how and why a Jewish hate group like the ADL construes their polling data to show that 25% of the world’s inhabitants are … Continue reading
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The Ballad of Atticus Finch
Atticus Finch, particularly as played by Gregory Peck, was and is a paragon of virtue, a liberal’s wet dream of a southern gentleman who is… just like them. The publication of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman has, um, problematized … Continue reading
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On the Jewish Novel
In The New Republic, William Giraldi has a piece titled “Confessions of a Catholic Novelist“. Of the ‘Protestant novel’: What would a strictly Protestant novel look like? One can comprehend fiction with a Calvinist bent—you see the Calvinist vision of … Continue reading
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Delmore Schwartz
In The Nation, Vivian Gornick has a piece on the New York Jewish intellectual poet Delmore Schwartz (who happened to also be a mentor to Lou Reed.) She starts the piece with a reminiscence by Alfred Kazin: In New York … Continue reading
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