More mid-European, mid-20th century nostalgia. But, gosh, nobody deserves it more than these guys like Sebald and Rezzori. Their predicaments make any American longing for his past into a total amateu… more →
Book Group of OneTerry wrote 1 day ago: Sebald scholar, Ruth Vogel-Klein of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, has sent me information on an extr … more →
Terry wrote 3 days ago: Not long ago I wrote about Andre Breton’s 1928 novel Nadja, which includes embedded photograph … more →
Serena Trowbridge wrote 6 days ago: Volcano Theatre’s play i-witness is currently touring, and if you are interested in fiction an … more →
Terry wrote 1 week ago: I’m still standing at the door of life, knocking and knocking, though admittedly none too forc … more →
sleepingstates wrote 2 weeks ago: I just noticed that I drafted the following as a blog post back in January, but never posted it. It … more →
Terry wrote 2 weeks ago: I’m grateful to a Vertigo reader for letting me know that W.G. Sebald’s book Die Ausgewa … more →
Terry wrote 3 weeks ago: “Walser has been my constant companion.” Some artists obfuscate when it comes to talking … more →
Terry wrote 1 month ago: David Patrick Stearns of The Philadelphia Inquirer reviews a world premiere composition by Michael H … more →
trewisms wrote 1 month ago: When you are a kid there are a couple of huge reading milestones. The first is being able to read at … more →
Terry wrote 1 month ago: Somewhat buried in the notices on the copyright page of the recently published novel The Tanners by … more →
Terry wrote 1 month ago: Anselm Kiefer, Buch (The Secret Life of Plants) mixed media on lead Tim Hill has written a nice arti … more →
Terry wrote 1 month ago: Installation view – Rings of Saturn, 2006 (Photograph courtesy Tate Photography) Over the past … more →
Terry wrote 2 months ago: Sometimes it takes a map. We tend to remember W.G Sebald’s book The Rings of Saturn as it is d … more →
Terry wrote 2 months ago: The literature of the second half of the twentieth century is a much traversed field and it seems un … more →
Terry wrote 2 months ago: Why was I so strangely attracted and enticed by the life of this man who despised me and my kind … more →
ppeditor wrote 2 months ago: ‘What I write is so inadequate … the worst trick God can play is to make you an artist, but only a m … more →
Terry wrote 3 months ago: [Image: A bioluminescent tobacco plant, via Wikivisual]. Until I read this wonderful post over at BL … more →
Terry wrote 3 months ago: New Directions has put up reading guides to several books from their catalog on Scribd.com, includin … more →