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Category Archives: Literature
Andrew WK & The Party Bible
The great Andrew W.K., whose 2001 album I Get Wet was a masterful reinvention of, and injection of fresh blood into, the fading cock-rock musical genre that few other bands, such as the rock and roll saviors known as The … Continue reading
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Camus’ Algerian Legacy
From an article on Algeria’s cultural snubbing of Albert Camus’ Algerian legacy is this nice paragraph about the arc of Camus’ oevre: “There is a Camus for every stage of life,” says Kaplan, trying to explain Camus’ staying power and … Continue reading
Posted in Existentialism, History, Literature, Philosophy
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William Gaddis
In the New York Review of Books, Jonathan Raban, in a review on a new book of Gaddis’s letters, provides a nice biography of him. Gaddis, most famous for his 1955 novel The Recognitions, held conservative leanings: Besides Toynbee (“that … Continue reading
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Is Tom Wolfe a Race Realist?
Over at the excellent Occidental Observer is the first of Nelson Rosit’s 3-part essay “Is Tom Wolfe a Race Realist?“: Perhaps it is a product of his Southern heritage — born in Richmond in 1931, B.A. Washington and Lee, 1951. … Continue reading
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Sci Fi & Anti-White Bias
Over at the leftwing Guardian newspaper, they are fretting about the social injustice that is sci-fi/fantasy literature. The big question, you see, is “why the majority of writers are straight white males from the US and UK, and why they … Continue reading
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Literary Appreciation of the Lovecraft Kind
In ‘Literary Appreciation of the Lovecraft Kind‘, Dan McCarthy defends H.P. from a recent claim that he is a “godawful writer”. McCarthy nails it in the following assessment of Lovecraft’s writing, which I agree with wholeheartedly: The “flaw” in Lovecraft’s … Continue reading
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Lovecraft’s Shadow
A bit of synchronicity for me. About a month ago, I discovered H.P. Lovecraft, read some of his stuff, attended a conference in R.I., and then this: The Call of Cthulhu At the Mountains of Madness Ancient Kingdom Discovered in … Continue reading
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NecronomiCon
NecronomiCon, a 3-day celebration of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, is taking place this week in Providence, RI, the city Lovecraft was born and died in. From a WaPo article on NecronomiCon: [Lovecraft] was steeped in the past and suspicious of … Continue reading
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Tales of New America
Brian Hess reviews Gunther Roosevelt’s Tales of New America, a collection of Turner Diary-type short stories. From the book’s back cover: 20–50 years from now when America has fallen apart economically, socially and racially. The Federal Government loses control as … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Secession, White Identity
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Narconovellas
In The Nation is “Dispatches from the Front: On Narconovellas“, a profile of the burgeoning narconovella literary genre in Mexico. It’s amazing that The Nation published this, given that (in reading between the lines of the novels’ premises) one quickly … Continue reading
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