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City of Historians and Liars
Just finished: City of Saints and Madmen, by Jeff VanderMeer. Reading next: Redburn, by Herman Melville. (Really, this time.) It’s oddly fitting that I should read Melville after finishing City… more →
The Ambiguities
IT'S BEEN A WHILE: The Forgetting of Crosswords, new poem
Jared wrote 8 hours ago: The Forgetting of Crosswords A four-letter “Southwestern sight” turns out to be mesa, not sand. It’s … more →
Vlad the Impaler
romantichen wrote 5 days ago: At last, depleted husband ‘X’ can stand firm and unflinching in the face of rolling-pin- … more →
A Book by Any Other Cover
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Jodi Cleghorn wrote 5 days ago: “I see some of you plan to vote me off already. Do you also choose your books by their covers? I pre … more →
Words from Nabokov
Eapen Thampy wrote 1 week ago: Some words I found in Nabokov’s Ada or Ardor: fubsy, joggle, glebe, harridan, lavabo, crepitated, or … more →
The Book Post
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josie wrote 1 week ago: On the first day of our Capstone Senior Thesis course (the culminating miserable class of my miserab … more →
Theatre: The Birthday Party
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neandellus wrote 1 week ago: The Birthday Party, by Harold Pinter MTC @ Fairfax Fri. 19 Jun. to Sat. 1 Aug. I have fallen well be … more →
Sunday Brunch at the Confluence and Your Morning News
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Stateofdisbelief wrote 2 weeks ago: Good Morning Conflucians! Sit right down…no reservation needed. Sure it’s a bit early … more →
I am thinking of Aurochs and Angels
robotosensai wrote 3 weeks ago: This may seem a strange thing to blog about…but i find it just a little interesting. OK… … more →
Writers: Why so strange?
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Joseph Lewis wrote 1 month ago: Of course, there are strange people in all walks of life. People obsessed with minutiae, or easily o … more →
Nabokov
Anaïs wrote 1 month ago: I want to write like Nabokov With tears that stream and words that sob Dylan too would be worthwhile … more →
New Blog: One Isn't Enough
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Gabe Durham wrote 1 month ago: Friends: I hope you will join me at my new blog, Lolita, Scrubbed, where I have begun to serialize … more →
Five "Classics" A Normal, Non-Literary Obsessed Person Would Enjoy
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etherealrumors wrote 1 month ago: There are a number of phrases I hear when I ask people what they think of “classics” or … more →
Summer reading, part one
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jenlillith wrote 1 month ago: 1. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf. To be succinct, if you like Virginia, you’ll like it, an … more →
Creative Writing in The New Yorker
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hiddenconnections wrote 1 month ago: Harvard once considered hiring Nabokov to teach literature; Roman Jakobson, then a professor of ling … more →
This Will Be Called "Bonds" When It Is Done
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stingrae wrote 1 month ago: Dear Teller[i], There it goes, rising up, and away, and somebody is telling me it’s just glass, conc … more →
Prelude to Potidaea
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hiddenconnections wrote 1 month ago: For if one is willing to listen to Socrates’ arguments, they’d appear quite ridiculous … more →
E-book chapter mashups?
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Court Merrigan wrote 1 month ago: The good folks at Feedbooks are improving their publishing application programming interface (API). … more →
List Wednesdays :: Must-Read Comedy Classics
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Kevin Wilder wrote 1 month ago: click here to jump to this week’s chapter In February, the authors at The Guardian took a week to e … more →
Todays Poem by Pushkin, Translated by Nabokov
darkmatter0205 wrote 1 month ago: I Loved You I loved you: lover, perhaps is yet not quite extinguised in my soul; but let it trouble … more →
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