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Un(der)known Writers: George Oppen
As a member of the Objectivist school, poet George Oppen sought to enact the materiality of language through simple phrasing and shorthand. His career includes…
The Madman's Interpreters
An interview with the translators of Raymond Roussel, the most influential 20th century French writer you’ve never heard of
The Art of Faking It: Bourgeois Socialism
It is summed up in the phrase: the bourgeois is a bourgeois—for the benefit of the working class.
Un(der)known Writers: Harry Crews
The answer’s never easy. You can’t just go back and say, ‘Well, his mama got on him when he was a little boy, and he never got over it.’ Welll, maybe that’s true, but that won’t take you very far.
The Art of Faking It: David Foster Wallace
Sweetie, my relationship record indicates a guy who’s bad news. And more and more now lately I’ve been afraid that you’re going to get hurt, that I might hurt you the way I seem to have hurt others who—”
The History of Dialogue: Other People’s Papers
A dialogue between Teach, an adjunct philosophy instructor at a public university in New York, and Cheat, who has authored over 100 papers for pay.
Un(der)known Writers: Alberto Savinio
Via Literalab Operatic Lives: “Isadora Duncan” (1942) In Nice it was raining. Apollo and Diana stood at the curb, covered by black raincoats. When the automobile…
Fringe Feminists: Patti Smith
Photo: Patti Smith: Horses by Lester Bangs Creem Magazine, February 1976: Patti’s heroes may be gone, but she is both with us and for us, so…
History Repeating: The Weblog
Pamphlets are as modish ornaments to gentlewomen’s toilets as to gentlemen’s pockets; they carry reputation of wit and learning to all that make them their companions; the poor find their account in stall-keeping and in hawking them; the rich find in them their shortest way to the secrets of church and state.
Un(der)known Writers: Lev Shestov
We live surrounded by an endless multitude of mysteries. But no matter how enigmatic may be the mysteries which surround being, what is most enigmatic and disturbing is that mystery in general exists and that we are somehow definitely and forever cut off from the sources and beginnings of life.
Un(der)known Writers: Nicola Chiaromonte
“The individual who has lived through a great historical upheaval has not only been dispossessed of his beliefs. He has found himself face to face with a reality that goes far beyond him and everyone else.
The Art of the Interview: Frederic Tuten
My first book was The Adventures of Mao on the Long March. Roy Lichtenstein did the cover for me. Roy was really the reason it got published because no one wanted to take it. Nobody, nobody, would take the book.
Un(der)known Writers: Pierre Klossowksi
The “rulers” (industrialists, military men, bankers, bureaucrats, etc.) with their various tasks, are merely effective slaves who work unknowingly on behalf of these hidden masters, and thus for a contemplative caste that ceaselessly forms the “values” and the meaning of life.
The History of Dialogue (5): Snobs on Snobbery
There is a difference between being (and the desire to be) well-read and being (and the desire to be) thought well-read.