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Imagined Icebergs: Matt Kish’s Moby Dick Art (On My Wall!)
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Tuesday, September 6, 2011. Matt Kish’s Moby Dick Art (On My Wall! Way back in May I bought several of the simply fantastic art pieces that Matt Kish created for his blog project-turned-book, Moby Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page. If you haven’t heard of and seen this project yet, I encourage you to go straight to his website. And give yourself a treat to those images and his other projects. Then go buy the book. That is coming out in October. Tell-ee me who-ee be, or dam- me, I kill-e! For m...
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Art as Escapism | A Blog About 2666
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A Blog About 2666. My contribution to the online group read of Roberto Bolaño's 2666. May 15, 2010. A couple of posts ago I asserted that there was no one master meaning at the center of. Stacy D’Erasmo, writing in the New York Times Book Review, puts it this way:. Note: This quote was pilfered from the Wikipedia article on Bolaño). JW argues that while Bolaño’s prose may be opaque, the structural choices of. Novel is at spurring action and urging the moral life. This entry was posted in Uncategorized.
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HOMOPHOBIA | A Blog About 2666
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A Blog About 2666. My contribution to the online group read of Roberto Bolaño's 2666. 2666 and the Holocaust →. April 17, 2010. There’s a good discussion of the homophobia in. Going on right now. Dan at Bleakonomy has been largely responsible for driving it. To the forefront of discussion. A few weeks ago I posited. That it was part of the toxic atmosphere that saturates Santa Teresa, and that somehow enables the crimes. Jeff teased out. Curiously, the homophobia in. And to some degree in. Seems to conce...
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Prefiguration of Lalo Cura | A Blog About 2666
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A Blog About 2666. My contribution to the online group read of Roberto Bolaño's 2666. 2666 As Sublimated Memoir. More From Juarez →. Prefiguration of Lalo Cura. April 13, 2010. There’s a new Bolaño short story. In the latest New Yorker: Prefiguration of Lalo Cura. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. 2666 As Sublimated Memoir. More From Juarez →. 2 responses to “ Prefiguration of Lalo Cura. April 16, 2010 at 5:26 pm. What did you think of the story? April 18, 2010 at 12:20 pm. Enter your comment here.
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VIOLENCE | A Blog About 2666
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A Blog About 2666. My contribution to the online group read of Roberto Bolaño's 2666. 2666 As Sublimated Memoir →. April 4, 2010. 2666 is a novel about violence. Obviously. And while there is doubtless more violence to come, now that we are leaving The Part About the Crimes I thought it might be useful try to take stock of the role of violence in the book so far. In what ways is 2666, and The Part About The Crimes in particular, “about” violence? The feeling that in places like Juarez/Santa Teresa “...
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More From Juarez | A Blog About 2666
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A Blog About 2666. My contribution to the online group read of Roberto Bolaño's 2666. Prefiguration of Lalo Cura. April 15, 2010. Salon has an interview. With Judith Torrea, who lives in Juarez and blogs about the drug violence there. Her blog, Ciudad Juárez, en la sombra del narcotráfico, is here. His new book on Juarez, Murder City, on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Prefiguration of Lalo Cura. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Send to Email Address.
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POLITICS (pages 513-564) | A Blog About 2666
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A Blog About 2666. My contribution to the online group read of Roberto Bolaño's 2666. The Ghost in the Narrative Machine. March 28, 2010. B) A toxic stew of misanthropy/misogyny/homophobia permeates Santa Teresa, devaluing women’s lives especially, and making young women easy targets (murders aside, the book reaches what may be the apex or nadir–of its portrayal/critique of misogyny in the section on pages 552-53 where a police officer tells an endless series of offensive jokes about women). C) Class div...
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2666 and the Holocaust | A Blog About 2666
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A Blog About 2666. My contribution to the online group read of Roberto Bolaño's 2666. 2666 and the Holocaust. April 26, 2010. Is neutrality in the face of injustice or atrocity always equivalent to complicity? Is passivity a form of guilt in an environment where most avenues of redress are closed off, and where the institutions of civil society have been so thoroughly dismantled, and the ideological climate so thoroughly contaminated, that one’s conscience might almost cease to function? As for the colla...
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Imagined Icebergs: Shelves To Read 2011
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011. Shelves To Read 2011. Last year at this time I noticed. Frequent side remarks on book blogs about the stacks of books that people have bought but haven’t yet read, and I thought it might be nice to actually have a photo of my “to read” shelves. I thought it might be nice to make this into a yearly event, so here is the updated version of my “to read” shelves. Of course, some of this may have to do with strategic weeding of the lower shelf, which has the lower priority items….
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Imagined Icebergs: The Jokers
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Thursday, June 27, 2013. I am not sure I think Albert Cossery’s The Jokers. The end of the novel, an ironic punch line of sorts, strikes me as a bit heavy handed. Still, moments like Karim’s kite flying and Urfy’s encounter with his mother are bright spots that make this worth reading. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Imagined Icebergs began as a way to encourage myself to write more about what I read outside of teaching. Please drop a line to let me know if you enjoy a post. View my complete profile.