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Read “Bobok,” a Short Story by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Bobok,” a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky: Bobok – From Somebody’s Diary Semyon Ardalyonovitch said to me all of a sudden the day before yesterday: “Why, will you ever be sober, Ivan Ivano- vitch?...
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List with No Name #11
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea The Big Sleep The Way of All Flesh Woodcutters The Melancholy of Resistance Aurelia and Other Writings The Hearing Trumpet The Invention of Morel The...
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Read “The Oval Portrait,” a Short Short Story by Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Allen Poe’s tale “The Oval Portrait” — The chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the...
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Read “A Baby Tramp,” A Short Story by Ambrose Bierce
“A Baby Tramp” by Ambrose Bierce If you had seen little Jo standing at the street corner in the rain, you would hardly have admired him. It was apparently an ordinary autumn rainstorm, but the water...
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Woman Reading in a Garden — Mary Cassatt
Tagged: Art, Arts, Books, Mary Cassatt, Reading, woman reading, women reading
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“I am more tremulous than shaken reeds”— Sappho
Tagged: Arts, fragment, Poem, Poetry, Sappho
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“Desiree’s Baby”— Kate Chopin
“Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin As the day was pleasant, Madame Valmonde drove over to L’Abri to see Desiree and the baby. It made her laugh to think of Desiree with a baby. Why, it seemed but...
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See Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Early Film, Love Is Colder Than Death
(Thanks Giovanni–had never seen this before). Tagged: Arts, Comedy, Dramas, full film, love is colder than death, Programs, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Gertrude Stein on Football
In a 1934 radio interview, Gertrude Stein talks American football: INTERVIEWER: You saw the Yale-Dartmouth game a week ago Saturday didn’t you? Did you understand that in the American way or the...
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Gerhard Richter Painting (Documentary Film)
Tagged: Art, Arts, Documentary, full film, full movie, Gerhard Richter
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“T.S. Eliot”— Ezra Pound
“T.S. Eliot” by Ezra Pound (from Instigations) Il n’y a de livres que ceux où un écrivain s’est raconté lui-même en racontant les mœurs de ses contemporains—leurs rêves, leurs vanités, leurs amours, et...
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List with No Name #17
Gordon Lish Ed Sanders Nadine Gordimer Harry Matthews Doris Lessing Cynthia Ozick Philip Roth Derek Walcott William H. Gass John Ashberry E.L. Doctorow Lawrence Ferlinghetti Harold Bloom Gabriel...
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“Nam-Bok the Unveracious”— Jack London
“Nam-Bok the Unveracious” by Jack London “A Bidarka, is it not so! Look! a bidarka, and one man who drives clumsily with a paddle!” Old Bask-Wah-Wan rose to her knees, trembling with weakness and...
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Pasternak’s The Last Summer, Another Lovely Penguin (Book Acquired Some Time...
Big thanks again to Ryan Mihaly for sending me another Penguin edition. This time, Ryan sent me Boris Pasternak’s The Last Summer. (Ryan writes reviews of merit at Flying Object, btw). Ryan also sent...
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Deadly Virtues (Book Acquired, 3.01.2013)
Deadly Virtues, a new mystery from Jo Bannister. Publishers Weekly review: Stubborn morality and acid-tinged whimsy drive this superior stand-alone from British author Bannister (Liars All and eight...
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Still Points North (Book Acquired, 3.02.2013)
Still Points North is Leigh Newman’s new memoir about growing up in Alaska. Publisher Random House’s blurb: Part adventure story, part love story, part homecoming, Still Points North is a page-turning...
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Georges Perec (Books Acquired, Some Time Last Week)
I picked up Georges Perec’s twofer Things and A Man Asleep last Friday at the used bookstore. I was there looking for something else. The Perec was not even shelved under “P.” I found it laid on a...
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Michael Kimball Talks to Biblioklept About Writing Life Stories on Postcards
Michael Kimball’s latest book Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (On a Postcard) had its genesis in a performance piece at the Transmodern Performance Festival a few years back: Michael interviewed...
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In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods (Book Acquired...
I was happy to get an advance copy of Matt Bell’s forthcoming novel In the House upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, because I like titles with lots of prepositions. No, actually, Bell’s...
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