Blogs about: James Wood
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True prayer
”Prayer is the surrender of judgment about what should happen, letting Truth run your life. It is rightly understood as a form of meditation. The most common form of prayer consists in asking G… more →
Cliffhanger
Cotati Man's Video Shows Police Barging Into Home, Using Stun Gun
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wrote 4 days ago: COTATI (KPIX 5) — A Sonoma County man’s video that shows police officers kicking in a do … more →
Salman Rushdie, "Midnight's Children"
wrote 6 days ago: 1988 Midnight’s Children seems to thwart Jameson’s idea that all third world literature … more →
Ink'd...I think.
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wrote 6 days ago: Anyone who wishes to write about things that probably sound ridiculous in other people’s heads … more →
Zadie Smith, "This is How It Feels To Me"
wrote 6 days ago: “THIS IS HOW IT FEELS TO ME” - The Guardian, October 13, 201 The byline of Zadie Smith … more →
James Wood, "Human, All Too Inhuman" & "Tell Me How Does it Feel
wrote 6 days ago: “HUMAN, ALL TOO INHUMAN” - August 30, 2001 - New Republic Taking its title from the firs … more →
Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Enquiry"
wrote 1 week ago: 1756 Burke sets out to define and explore beauty with greater precision than has been done before. H … more →
Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp"
wrote 1 week ago: 1964 Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, ha … more →
Mikhail Bakhtin, "Discourse in the Novel"
wrote 1 week ago: 1981 In “Epic and Novel,” Bakhtin argues that the novel flourishes on diversity, making … more →
Textermination
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wrote 1 week ago: A couple of months ago I wrote a piece for the Spectator Books blog about how one ought – or, indeed … more →
Bruce Stone on Nabokov, Cossacks, God's Wrath, and Art as Aggravation
wrote 2 weeks ago: On March 19, the literary marketplace welcomed a new title by the young Vladimir Nabokov, who hasn’t … more →
WG Sebald: Reveries of a solitary walker
wrote 2 weeks ago: At the time of his death in a car crash aged 57, WG Sebald was widely regarded as one of the world … more →
New Trailer For 'WHITE HOUSE DOWN'!
wrote 2 weeks ago: Check out this new trailer for Roland Emmerich’s upcoming film titled White House Down that ca … more →
New Poster For 'WHITE HOUSE DOWN'
wrote 2 weeks ago: Check out this new poster that Columbia Pictures has released for Roland Emmerich’s upcoming f … more →
While I'm cogitating on the next 'How-to' book review post...
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wrote 2 weeks ago: I wanted to quickly list the books that I have on my shelves that I have found (variously) helpful i … more →
Cabinet
wrote 2 weeks ago: In the TLS: How Muriel Spark revitalized the creator of Frankenstein. Claire Messud’s new nove … more →
Review: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Lydia Davis
wrote 2 weeks ago: image via Strand title: Madame Bovary [support an independent bookseller and buy at Strand] by: Gust … more →
WG Sebald: reflections from James Wood, Iain Sinclair, Robert Macfarlane and Will Self
wrote 3 weeks ago: ‘In the too-short course of his writing life, WG Sebald remade the novel. Walter Benjamin … more →
The Literary Link List
wrote 3 weeks ago: Links to pieces, old and new, on literature: One of my all-time favorite books, Salman Rushdie … more →
wednesday reading list
wrote 3 weeks ago: “Open wide baby bird, mama’s got a big, fat nightcrawler of truth.” ~ Stephen T. C … more →
