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Notes on Saramago and Competing Contemporary Regimes of Literacy
I'm trying to read Jose Saramago's History of the Siege of Lisbon (in translation) and it's going terribly.
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A Past Self Meets Other Past Selves
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Brodkey in the Wilderness
Harold Brodkey's "This Wild Darkness" found me at last, after many years of my successful ducking.
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American Reconquista
Around the Alcazar of Jerez de la Frontera
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Lock Me Up, Lock Me Down
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The Feckless Bellelettrist
The Feckless Bellelettrist
Observations, essays, and literary ephemera, from a diffusely overeducated book critic, former lit-mag editor, and relentless amateur.
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