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PW Piece on the Vertigopedia
From a few weeks ago, this short article previews the book…somehow without mentioning the name of the guy who wrote it. Sometimes I think PW has it in for me. All writers have that feeling, I guess, but they spelled my name wrong in their review of A Scattering of Jades (apparently some guy named…
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New Semester, New Book, New List
Started teaching yesterday…summer’s over. And coincident with the beginning of the semester is the arrival of the Vertigopedia, which is In Stores Now! Over at the Times Online, source of so many interesting and idiosyncratic literary lists, Philip Pullman initiates us into the mysteries of his personal canon.
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If This Gets Out, I Won’t Have a Job
The semester starts in ten days, and I’ll be back in the classroom teaching Writing Fiction and a great-books-style class called Homer to the Renaissance. As always, the project of the creative writing class is a little curious to me, and here’s Katharine Anne Porter, musing on one of the central problems: “Writing, in any…
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More Kafka
So a trove (maybe) of Kafka’s papers are currently being held by the 74-year-old cat-lady daughter of Max Brod in Tel Aviv. She holds onto them while everyone argues about how Jewish Kafka was and how this affects where his papers should go. I mean, of course. Nothing related to Kafka’s legacy can be normal,…
Crooked House Fictions 