Description:
General discussion of literary topics.
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Notes on Literature: *The Art Student's War*
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Y'know, folks, if you tire of "Rubardism" -- There is a *vocabulary entire* extant on this continent, incarnate in / this novel/ in the form of a "hot piece" of 'countenance ordinary' of the sort that My Grandmother Would Know and you can "ACCEPT". Really. On the "electric East Side" of Detroit or wherever, even, where... more »
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Notes on Literature: "Shadow Country"
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A /work/ that justifies its 'double-quotes' - Shadow Country is "intensionally" a work of American Modern fiction deriving from - Peter Mathiessen - the /late/ Peter Matheissen. Check Modern Library for availability. Get it straight, "dogs": this is a "Book of Counties" -- the way it /goes down/ e-ven to-day in the *tightest*... more »
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Notes on Literature: "Cities of Salt" (Munif)
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Or, 'Just Jeff': You Stay Classy, Arab Planet Rock and roll is *generally* excellent, and "Cities of Salt" is an Abdelrahman Munif *social-fascist* Arab novel - corresponding *roughly* to the population of the "California Republic" by Americans serious about Americanism. Strange, but true: the "Cromwellian" Golden... more »
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SALON's Book Section Is Similar To A Good Sunday Newspaper
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[link] Btw: SALON in its present carnation is an outright freebie as are most/ many magazines and various worthwhile publications available on the internet, which is kid in candy store, especially if one had paid subscriptions to some of the same publications for years--thank some... more »
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E-Book Lamentation From A Traditional Publisher
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Hey, that's cheap-shooting by the invoking of sensationalism and distortion that often pervades on paperback book covers and callous subway tabloids, so disregard the idiotic exaggeration fat least for a few minutes, and peruse the non-emotional explanation [link]... more »
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Notes on Literature: *Mother London*
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The central character of this novel is a Pittsburgh Jew named Sam Fleischer. The reasons for this are obvious. The action takes place on a single day. All the time, baby. Really. "Cope". Consequently — all manner of *mises en scene* are possible, from "high tea" with Katharine Hepburn to "reelin' in the years" á Labourite sad sacks; and... more »
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Notes on Literature: *Vurt*
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LEON TROTSKY For Immediate Release: ------ An 'Althusserian romance': A *genocidique* - as this life is - and consequently none too beautiful - the ugly and useless feather a sign of "gilding the lily" away from guilds, and lily-white birds with a use for plumage. Portland as Manchester: who cares, as Portland is... more »
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