Sunday, January 31, 2016

Sybille Bedford, _A Visit to Don Otavio: A Traveller's Tale from Mexico_

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THE VAGUE INTENTION to read Sybille Bedford one day formed for me after reading an essay on her by Hilary Mantel, I think it was, an impress...
Sunday, January 24, 2016

G. C. Waldrep, _Testament_

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TRUTH TO TELL, I read Adorno's Noise because it is one of the three texts (the others being Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip and...

Carla Harryman, _Adorno's Noise_

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IN THE BACK of my mind, I kept thinking this was part of a series that also included Alice Notley's Grave of Light and Richard Greenfiel...
Monday, January 18, 2016

Tom McCarthy, _Satin Island_

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SETTINGS SOMEWHERE IN the purlieus of gigantic internet companies are getting to be as common now as fictions set wholly or partly in the fo...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

David Mitchell, _Slade House_

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SLADE HOUSE IS a short spur line off of the main track of The Bone Clocks , about another confrontation between some soul-suckers of the Sh...
Monday, January 11, 2016

James Tate, _Dome of the Hidden Pavilion_

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QUITE A FEW of my longtime favorite poets came out with new books in 2015, so I have been using January as a chance to catch up--Doty, Glück...
Sunday, January 10, 2016

Brandon Courtney, _The Grief Muscles_ and _Rooms for Rent in the Burning City_

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I READ COURTNEY'S "The Physics of War" in  the November 2015 issue of The Progressive and immediately went online to see what ...