November 2009
3 posts
The Family Circus, by William Faulkner.
“Incest and miscegenation!” Pa yelled as he entered the room where Billy and Dolly sat. Billy fled through the doorway, too panicked for ratiocination, and wound a peregrinating dotted line around the yard and by P.J., the deaf and dumb youngest brother.
Famous Readers Narrate the Funny Pages, McSweeney’s. Link thanks to Comics Curmudgeon, of course.
Honestly, though, if you...
“He didn’t see a doctor, he says, until he was 17. His first dental visit...”
– Article on Edward Jones in the Post. Worth reading in full, although it’s a typical bio-feature in that it spends too long elaborating on his hermitage and not long enough talking about his fiction. In my opinion. But still good.
I think I got the link from The Millions. Thanks, guys!
Also,...
The Millions actually delivers for once. →
A needed answer to “Bolaño Inc.”
However, there’s one thing doesn’t exactly get said in this article, but occurred to me upon reading “Bolaño Inc.” Castellanos Moya and Edmond Caldwell and their ilk see an uncomfortable tension in the way Bolaño has been received in America: he’s been decontextualized — stripped of the literary and political content...