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Category Archives: Literature
On Whiteness
“Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky way? Or is it, … Continue reading
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Raymond Chandler
The Telegraph has a nice little piece on the great Raymond Chandler, the granddaddy of noir.
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Stranglehold
In “Literature Is Dead (According to Straight, White Guys, At Least)“, Joel Breuklander (born in Orange County, CA, currently residing in… NYC) bemoans the bemoaning. Take The New York Times‘ Verlyn Klinkenborg, who recently wrote that a “technical narrowness” is … Continue reading
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The Counselor
The New Yorker recently published a 4-page excerpt of literary genius Cormac McCarthy’s original screenplay for The Counselor. It appears to be the opening sequences of the film, an edge-of-your-seat sequence without dialogue, depicting some of the grittier elements of … Continue reading
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Kafka, “A Little Fable”
A few years ago, I finally got ’round to reading Kafka’s The Metamorphosis and was completely blown away by it. Kafka’s ability to convey the anxiety of the modern age , in the most palpable metaphorical terms, also has a … Continue reading
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A Really Dangerous Idea
“There is no such thing as life without bloodshed … the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are … Continue reading
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Gatsby Cover
I’ve read The Great Gatsby a couple of times, most recently about 4 years ago. I marvel not only at its structure and theme, but at the novel’s economy. Not a single word is wasted. Smithsonian Magazine has an article … Continue reading
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The Hollow Men
This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. — T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men”
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Macbeth
The excellent Michael Fassbender and Natalie Portman will be in a new screen adaption of Macbeth. In the past few years, I’ve been exploring Shakespeare’s oevre, and starting to study it more closely. To date, in film or on stage, … Continue reading
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Richard Brautigan
In TLS there’s a book review of a new biography on poet Richard Brautigan. I remember in grammar school, I stumbled across his strange 1975 novel Willard and His Bowling Trophies and being completely enthralled with it. It was my … Continue reading
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