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Category Archives: Literature
The End of the Tour
I’m not sure how I feel about this one. The End of the Tour is an upcoming film based on David Lipsky’s Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace. I’m a big … Continue reading
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Karl Kraus
From Russell Jacoby’s review of The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus, translated and annotated by Jonathan Franzen, et al: Kraus dabbled in anti-Semitism. He was Jewish himself—or rather he was born Jewish but joined the Catholic Church in 1911 … Continue reading
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Cranston Reading McCarthy
From the ABQ Journal is a piece regarding Bryan Cranston (one of the best actors of his generation) reading from Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian (one of the best novels of the 20th century by one of the best living novelists): … Continue reading
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I think I could turn and live with animals…
From Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”: I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They … Continue reading
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The 39 Steps (1935)
A category of my favorite cinematic experience is the ‘innocent man on the run’ genre that Alfred Hitchcock pioneered. While North By Northwest (1959) is my favorite Hitch film of this genre, The 39 Steps (1935) is another great film … Continue reading
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Gopnik on Houellebecq
In The New Yorker, Michel Houellebecq gets the Adam Gopnik treatment. (Gopnik is that all too familiar sociological phenomenon — the NYC liberal Jew — but is a helluva writer.) The French writer Michel Houellebecq has become a literary “case” … Continue reading
Posted in Death of the West, Europe, Islam, Literature
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T.S. Eliot & the Hipster
In “When T.S. Eliot Invented the Hipster”, Karen Prior aptly traces roots of hipsterdom to the protagonist of Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,”: In a keen essay on the hipster at The New York Times, Christy Wampole … Continue reading
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The Greatness of Philip Larkin
Dana Gioia has a good article on “The Greatness of Philip Larkin”, a review of James Booth’s new biography, Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love.
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How Far We’ve Come
The following is the opening paragraph to a review of “The Selected Letters of Willa Cather” in what is typically cited as a preeminent ‘conservative’ publication, The Weekly Standard: This volume includes 566 letters, less than one-fifth of those that … Continue reading
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Soumission
He’s controversial. He pisses off Muslims. He’s won France’s highest literary prizes. And he’s one ugly motherfucker. Michel Houllebecq is worth reading. Why? If for no other reason than how The Guardian describes him in their article on his upcoming … Continue reading
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