If you’re interested, there’s an early review of Don DeLillo’s forthcoming novel Falling Man (which is scheduled to be released later this month) in the New York Sun.
You can keep an eye on the Falling Man Media Watch page at the Don DeLillo’s America site if you’re a big DeLillo fan like me.
Keith Richards joked that he mixed some of his father’s ashes with cocaine and snorted it all up.
But at least he did not claim to have slain his da with a loy:
PEGEEN
You never hanged him, the way Jimmy Farrell hanged his dog from the license, and had it screeching and wriggling three hours at the [...]
Crazy Pammy has offered us a poème trouvé in the style of Ionesco:
Attacks on Boxer
Attacks on Prager
Attacks on Beck
Attacks on “24″
The pattern attacks
Compare this to Mary’s poem “Le Feu” from La Cantatrice chauve –
Les polycandres brillaient dans les bois
Une pierre prit feu
Le château prit feu
La forêt prit feu
Les hommes prirent feu
Les femmes prirent feu
Les oiseaux [...]
What if Geoffrey Chaucer had a blog?
Top X searches in myne networke:
10. John Gowere swyving a donkey
9. woolen hose
8. discounte ale
7. Kent
6. Macrobius for dummyes
5. howe to thinly veil acquaintences as fictional characteres
4. arabic numerals
3. readynge %(%(%ing chancerye hand
2. Sheene palace dynnere guest listes
1. Katharyne Swinford nude
Very amusing.
(via Languagehat)
Jedmunds at Pandagon linked to a Times (UK) article which reports that “Judas Iscariot… is to be given a makeover by Vatican scholars.” Is Judas a misunderstood character? Did he actually fulfill a crucial role in Christ’s passion?
The proposed “rehabilitation” of the man who was paid 30 pieces of silver to identify Jesus [...]
Here are links to two good articles from the 2005/12/01 LRB:
“Remember me” by Adam Phillips, on Bret Easton Ellis
Ellis’s characters come after Balzac’s in the sense that they are already inordinately wealthy – many have both inherited money and made considerable amounts of it – and are already stranded by their inordinate success, or the [...]
While I’m on this quasi-literary bent, readers, let me ask you a couple of questions: Do you remember the “Dirty Realism” movement in American fiction? It was given a sort of de facto canonization with Granta 8 (summer 1983) and Granta 19 (Fall 1986). Among the “Dirty Realists” were the following:
Richard Ford
Jayne [...]
Today I finished re-reading Don DeLillo’s first novel, Americana (1971). It was a frustrating experience.
I’m a huge fan of DeLillo. I consider him to be the preeminent post-WWII American novelist, surpassing not only Mailer, but also the rest of the post-WWII canon (Updike, Roth, Bellow), leaving them in his dust. The best [...]
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