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This is what I consider to be the best use for Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. I want people to think I appreciate it, and I love the cover… it’s just. I can’t get into Chabon, ok? Never could. Please don’t be mad fellow literary geeks/nerds. I don’t want to argue about this, I’m just saying: ...
William Gaddis, the Last Protestant →
Essay by John Lingan
Ekphrastic is now SAGATROPE...
and it’s a dot-com. Color me 11 dollars poorer.
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David Foster Wallace vs. Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut, writing in response to Jonathan Franzen’s April Folio on American novelists, “Perchance to Dream,” claims that “Novelists are people who believe they can dampen their neuroses by writing make-believe. We will keep on doing that no matter what, while offering loftier explanations.” This makes Vonnegut look humble and lovable, but as a response to the stuff Franzen...
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Color E-Ink Ebook Reader →
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