Biblioklept Recommends Five Novels, Some of Them New, Not All of Them German
I shouldn’t be reading five novels at once. It’s a terrible idea, a symptom of a bad habit that I thought I’d broken, but after abandoning Levin’s tedious tome The Instructions and wasting my time on...
View ArticleBooks Acquired, Some Time Over the Past Two Weeks
Tagged: Books, Books Acquired, Claire Dederer, Literature, Love & Honor, Orchids, The Art of Fielding, The Law of Strings, Vertigo
View ArticleSlavoj Žižek on Alfred Hitchock’s Vertigo
Slavoj Žižek on Alfred Hitchock’s film Vertigo. From The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (2006). Tagged: Alfred Hitchock, Slavoj Žižek, Vertigo
View ArticleSusan Sontag on W.G. Sebald
Susan Sontag on W.G. Sebald: IS LITERARY GREATNESS still possible? Given the implacable devolution of literary ambition, and the concurrent ascendancy of the tepid, the glib, and the senselessly cruel...
View Article“My husband met some women online and I found out”| Read Joanna Walsh’s story...
Electric Literature has published “Online,” a story from Joanna Walsh’s forthcoming collection Vertigo. You can buy Vertigo now from the indie imprint Dorothy (I ordered Vertigo along with Marianne...
View ArticleVertigo/The Weight of Things (Books acquired, 9.28.2015)
Two new books from The Dorothy Project: Joanna Walsh’s collection Vertigo and Austrian writer Marianne Fritz’s 1978 novel The Weight of Things (in English translation by Adrian Nathan West) You can...
View ArticleSeven new(ish) books from indie presses
It’s summer so maybe you need some books to read. Indie presses are the bestest. Extinction by Ashley Dawson from OR Books. This is a devastating little big book about, a sustained attack on...
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