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B -- Djuna Barnes, Bergman, The Cosmological Eye

New Directions wrote 1 month ago: – Nightwood by Djuna Barnes The Cosmological Eye by Henry Miller – … more →

Tags: b, Nightwood, louis zukofsky, minister's black veil, Bergman, Three Strange Loves, Henry Miller, The Cosmological Eye

Wittgenstein's Mistress

Catherine Borders wrote 2 months ago: I’m reading Wittgenstein’s Mistress right now on the beaches of Anguilla. That line is actually a mi … more →

Tags: Prose, criticism, Wittgenstein's Mistress, David Markson, Anguilla, Death and the Maiden, Franz Schubert, this is not a novel, reader's block

(Life and Contacts)

agestureandapose wrote 2 months ago: I have a blog now, it would appear… So, here goes! A fairly bog-standard, generic, boring intr … more →

Tags: T. S. Eliot, Oscar Wilde, George Gissing, Knees, writing, Literature, Selly Oak, university of birmingham

Craft Notes: Voice Lessons

maximumfiction wrote 3 months ago: The following is excerpted from Manifesto: Maximalist Expressionism, or “Shut/-/Up(!) Fiction … more →

Tags: Craft Notes, Novel, desautels, writing, Fiction Writing, Creative Writing, Writing techniques, T. S. Eliot, maximalism

she who is eaten death returning

theableminnow wrote 4 months ago: “The woman who presents herself to the spectator as a ‘picture’ forever arranged i … more →

Tags: Academics, Awe, Book Stuff, Literature, Nightwood

Excerpts of the circus and of flesh colored turtlenecks

urbesque wrote 6 months ago: posted by Caroline Picard I came across these two consecutive passages in Nightwood, a book by Djuna … more →

Tags: Fiction, Nightwood

"Are you still alive, Djuna?"

wildnewyork wrote 6 months ago: That’s what e.e. cummings reportedly shouted out his window on Patchin Place, the West Village … more →

Tags: West Village, Poets and writers, Music, art, theater, Patchin place, Dylan Thomas, peggy guggenheim, Bohemian Greenwich Village, e.e. cummings. T.S. Eliot, William S. Burroughs

Images

notesfromaroom wrote 6 months ago: An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties. – Djuna Barnes, Nightwood … more →

Attention Span - Meredith Quartermain

Steve Evans wrote 7 months ago: Djuna Barnes | Nightwood | New Directions | 1937 Inspired by Nicole Brossard for whom Nightwood is a … more →

Tags: Attention Span 2008, Commented list, Robert Walser, Sharon Thesen, benedict de spinoza, colin browne, Denis Diderot, norman cohn, Hannah Arendt

The heart

Anea wrote 7 months ago: He was the first man that I loved. He thought that his heart was dying, perpetually. That a thousand … more →

Tags: Literature, Poetry, digt, dream, Dying, Green, Heart, Man, Moon

A New Way ("Read If")1 comment

Abby wrote 7 months ago: I was thinking about this blog in my literary modernism class this week. I realized that, in its pre … more →

Tags: Milan Kundera, Kundera, Trilogy, HD, manhattan transfer, John Dos Passos, Passing, nella larsen, st. mawr and the man who died

NOTES TOWARDS A BOOK OF REPULSIVE WOMEN

suemintude wrote 7 months ago: A LOVE POEM for Billy who wore black-framed square glasses held together at the nose and in the midd … more →

The Artist Interview: Ruby Osorio

artsetoile wrote 10 months ago: Pecola, 95 1/2 x 84 1/2 in. Emily Waldorf interviews Los Angeles based artist Ruby Osorio, whose eth … more →

Tags: Contemporary Art, Galleries, Los Angeles, Cherry and Martin, Cherrydelosreyes, cut copy, Emiliana Torrini, Nightwood, picabia

The dog

notesfromaroom wrote 11 months ago: Robin now headed up into Nora’s part of the country. She circled closer and closer. Sometimes … more →

Books I love, that nobody seems to read.8 comments

naptimewriting wrote 1 year ago: After our extravaganza about classics we loathe, the erudite blogosphere and I have undertaken anoth … more →

Tags: Put the pen to the paper and see what develops, David Foster Wallace, Books, Favorite Books, List, Best Books, unknown books, Unread books, Poetry

NOTE TOWARDS A BOOK OF REPULSIVE WOMEN2 comments

suemintude wrote 1 year ago: CAN YOU LIVE WITH SURRENDER? In the morning you will cut your hair, stand naked at the bathroom sink … more →

Where we got our band name from.

nightwoodband wrote 1 year ago:   Drawing by Djuna Barnes Nightwood’s band name is taken from a novel by the author Djuna Barn … more →

Tags: All the other stuff we write about!, Nightwood, band name

Modernism Lovers Rejoyce

desario71 wrote 1 year ago: For an appreciation of The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (first from the left), written by Julian … more →

Tags: Articles, interviews, James Joyce, Modernism, Ezra Pound, Ford Madox Ford

Queerview: Djuna Barnes

erc2008 wrote 1 year ago: Djuna Barnes was a poet, playwright, and novelist and a key figure in both Modernism and GLBT litera … more →

Tags: GLBT literature, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dolly Wilde, Eugene O''Neill, Gerrude Stein, Jeanette Winerson, Natalie Barney, Provincetown Players, Susan Glaspell


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