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Something Urgent I Have to Say to You by Herbert Leibowitz
... that women play a central role in the book? In other places, Leibowitz’s desire for compactness gives way to glibness, as in this description of James Joyce: “His eyesight was poor, but his...
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Bookforum talks with Jeannette Seaver
... 1952 and you were married in 1953. That period seems to have been one of crystallization. JS: While Dick was working on his thesis on James Joyce and being an editor, he was writing novels; he was...
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Bookforum talks to Alexander Theroux
... Darconville’s Cat, his second novel, a book that satisfies syntactically, texturally, and structurally, reminding me at once of Henry James (because of the novel’s sentential convolutions and its...
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Sep 28, 2011 @ 4:00:00 am
... former handyman who stole rare manuscripts by Winston Churchill, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and TS Eliot has been sentenced
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Changó’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes by William Kennedy
... probably only Dublin has produced a more loyal son in letters. Ironweed, the masterpiece that earned Kennedy his Pulitzer, brings a neighborhood humanism reminiscent of the young James Joyce to its cast...
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Kipling's Magical Realism
... exhortation to stoicism and self-control. On the other, there are those who, like James Joyce, choose to condemn Kipling for “semi-fanatic” ideas about patriotism and race and consider him barely worth...
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Reading as Therapy by Timothy Aubry
...com, respectively. David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and Rebecca Wells’s The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood are seen as inextricable from their marketing campaigns, while James Frey’s A Million Little...
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May 16, 2011 @ 4:00:00 am
... James Gleick (The Information) and Evgeny Morozov (The Net Delusion) made appearances, the latter...
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Apr 7, 2011 @ 9:00:00 am
... songwriter Kate Bush has finally received permission to use lyrics taken from James Joyce’s Ulysses on her...
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Mar 18, 2011 @ 9:00:00 am
... work. Mary Ellen Bute’s mid-sixties film adaptation, Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (with subtitles, natch), is available on Ubu Web
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Anxiety Over Influence
... old as the Constitution that engendered limited copyright protection. Hyde devotes a passage to the familiar horrors unleashed by James Joyce’s malevolent seventy-eight-year-old grandson, Stephen...
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Hypochondria
... that went with them: boils on the neck, palpitations of his “bitch of a heart,” bad teeth, and, like his mentor James Joyce, bad eyes. The Andy Warhol Diaries Warhol had plenty to be worried about...
