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Teacher, scholar, poet, essayist. Why Not Take All of Me. The Heat of What Comes. Marshall University English Dept. A Reading With Rachael (and Darius). February 12, 2016. With Rachael and Darius I will be reading from new work at Empire Books as part of a Writers Can Read Event. The reading will be on Monday, February 15 at Empire Books, Pullman Square, Huntington WV. The event begins at 7pm and will run until 8:30 pm. You can access the event page on Facebook HERE. A Review of God’s Bicycle. The childr...
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Guttersnipe Das: Guttersnipe Bookshelf: Marguerite Duras
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Hymns and Homosex. Fantasies and Feuilletons. Stories, Essays, Prose Poems and Assorted Devotions. Friday, June 05, 2015. Guttersnipe Bookshelf: Marguerite Duras. Marguerite Duras, Summer Rain. Translated by Barbara Bray. I’ve read half a dozen of Duras’ short novels, but when I found a tattered, moth-eaten copy of Summer Rain. A book that is tremendously elegant but also instantly comprehensible, like an art movie guaranteed not to confuse your date. Summer Rain. Is far more strange and, to me, more int...
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Guttersnipe Das: Holy Books of Guttersnipe Das: Robert Walser
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Hymns and Homosex. Fantasies and Feuilletons. Stories, Essays, Prose Poems and Assorted Devotions. Thursday, November 19, 2009. Holy Books of Guttersnipe Das: Robert Walser. New Directions, 2009. Translated by Susan Bernofsky. With a perfect introduction to Walser by W. G. Sebald. It's as lovely as anything Walser wrote. I can't believe my good fortune, finding this now, after re-reading the NYRB Walser Selected Stories so many times it may qualify as a personal tic. Can we take up a collection? This boo...
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Guttersnipe Das: In Defense of Terribly Spiritual People
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Hymns and Homosex. Fantasies and Feuilletons. Stories, Essays, Prose Poems and Assorted Devotions. Friday, May 22, 2015. In Defense of Terribly Spiritual People. A gentleman here at the Shanti Cafe has just ordered “One baguette, toasted, sliced French style, not end to end! Six slices please. No, cancel that! Obviously it is time for me to be going. Because I do not. Want to be here if the waitress comes back with seven. No, it is NOT all right! But it will HAVE TO DO! Ramananagar, the part of town in v...
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Guttersnipe Das: Guttersnipe Bookshelf: Samuel Beckett
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Hymns and Homosex. Fantasies and Feuilletons. Stories, Essays, Prose Poems and Assorted Devotions. Friday, May 22, 2015. Guttersnipe Bookshelf: Samuel Beckett. Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies. Translated by the author. Published in French, 1951. Published in English, 1958. Published by John Calder, 1958, and by Penguin in 1962. Of Beckett’s three short novels, Molloy. It’s a great book. And you don’t have to wait until your life is worse to enjoy this book. Your life is already bad enough. Thus, by the time ...
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Guttersnipe Das: Real World
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Hymns and Homosex. Fantasies and Feuilletons. Stories, Essays, Prose Poems and Assorted Devotions. Friday, May 22, 2015. When I write to friends in America or Japan, I feel the need to explain to them that I am on another planet. You know, on the off chance they haven’t already noticed. I don’t know the answer. But, if I had to put money on it, I’m guessing that it’s none of those that we see here, neither yours nor mine. Labels: Small Stories From My Enormously Spiritual Life. View my complete profile.
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Guttersnipe Das: After the Writer
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Hymns and Homosex. Fantasies and Feuilletons. Stories, Essays, Prose Poems and Assorted Devotions. Friday, May 22, 2015. If I could call back from the beyond every page I’ve ever written, there would be hundreds of pages I wrote before I ever wanted to be a writer. Then there would be thousands and thousands of pages I wrote when I wanted to be a writer, when my teacher said that I could be and I believed her. Then would come this page, which seems to me the first page of afterwards. Meditación Metta par...
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Guttersnipe Das: What's In It For You
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Hymns and Homosex. Fantasies and Feuilletons. Stories, Essays, Prose Poems and Assorted Devotions. Friday, May 08, 2015. What's In It For You. From Small Stories from My Enormously Spiritual Life. I thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for taking a moment’s respite from the management of your own micro-celebrity to read this paragraph. I promise it won’t be a waste! At the end of this paragraph you are going to be demonstrably more impressive. Why should you decide that, you ask? Labels: Small Stories...
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Jeff Bursey's Criticism -- index
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Below are book reviews which have appeared in. Canadian Notes & Queries. Books in Canada—The Canadian Review of Books. Requited, The Quarterly Conversation. Review of Contemporary Fiction. Reviews from Amazon come after. Diary of a Blood Donor. The Mirror In The Well. By Micheline Aharonian Marcom. Volume 30, Number 1, November/December 2008. You can visit www.carcanet.co.uk. To order Gabriel's book. Ceased publishing in 2008. The Book of Chameleons. By José Eduardo Agualusa. The Life of John Cowper Powys.
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