...than surrendering to the instant. That difficulty is human pain. It is ours. I surrender in words and surrender when I paint. Holding a little bird in the half-closed...
If the reaction had had as many enemies among women as it did among men, the Versailles Government would have had a more difficult task subduing us....
Harry Crews interviewed by Jim Knipfel in “Stories Told in Blood“ I mean, yeah, I’d been drinking pretty heavy. Look, it’s obvious that my job, or anybody...
...have lost, whether it is language and culture, or land and nation. And their writing is an attempt to recover a lost known object. But the Africa39 writers do not...
...only interesting writers under the age of 39, but it’s a damned good anthology and a damned good list of writers. Most anthologies are not nearly this full of interesting...
...accordance with the latter’s “creative tasks,” is nothing other than a systematization of what Nietzsche sees in the already existing order: namely, that the false hierarchy of the so-called ruling...
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 went...
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 a nearly...
...the old order of colonialism. And in our own nation it is sweeping away the old order of slavery and racial segregation. The wind of change is blowing, and we...
...new info on that book now, I haven't looked in years. KEGURO MACHARIA: I wonder if, in part, the problem—for writers, for categories—is that “they” (writers/categories) are always being imagined...
...women modernist writers in terms of her own life and vice versa. In the first post on her blog, Zambreno said that she was inspired by Dodie Bellamy’s Barf Manifesto...
...responsible for translating overlooked Russian classics and up-and-coming Russian writers into English. Through her efforts, writers such as Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Victor Pelevin, and Vladimir Sorokin are now known in the...
...by the elite for the elite. This is clear from the beginning: Marcus Gavius Apicius, for example, was a Roman profligate known for the obscene amounts of money he lavished...