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Drawing the Connection

On rainy nights in the drawing studio, I looked up at the blur running down the wall of windows that slanted toward the courtyard two stories below. The college gave art students 24-hour access to…
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4763 words)

Aleksandar Hemon

When writer Aleksandar (Sasha) Hemon was twenty-three, he hosted a radio show in his hometown of Sarajevo called “Sasha Hemon Tells You True and Untrue Stories.” One segment was about a…
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4448 words)

Safety Net: On Thomas Bernhard and Siegfried Unseld

A writer sends a letter to his publisher: “there are times when one suddenly hovers in the air over a dreadful abyss and is being watched by countless people who constantly clap and cheer and…
AUTHOR:Holly Case
PUBLISHED: Jan. 29, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (815 words)

Will Self: modernism and me

'Aged 20 I was already finding conventional English prose fiction quite as constricting as I did conventional English society' … Will Self in his writing room in London. Photograph: Eamonn…
AUTHOR:Will Self
PUBLISHED: Aug. 3, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3553 words)
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The Hemingway Papers / Bullfighting is Not a Sport – It is a Tragedy

It symbolizes the struggle between man and beasts. The three acts of the drama are the entry, the planting of the banderilleros, and the death of the bull. A Canadian at ringside. It was spring in…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4066 words)

Hannah Rothschild on Nica: 'I saw a woman who knew where she belonged'

Thelonious Monk and Nica de Koenigswarter at the Five Spot jazz club, New York, 1964: 'She’s in love with him: the way she gazes at him… but I don’t believe that sex was at the heart of it.'…
PUBLISHED: April 22, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3158 words)

'Magazines will always have a place on people's shelves'

In the basement of a London bar, gathered like a resistance movement or thralls to some secret perversion, 100 people have come together to discuss their passion for magazines. They particularly like…
AUTHOR:Tom Lamont
PUBLISHED: April 15, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1594 words)

GREATEST ANIMAL NOVELIST OF ALL TIME?

DISCUSSED: Dombey and Son, the Toodles, Bonnets, Sycophancy in Ruins, Nineteenth-Century Book Tours, Robert Altman, Capital-P Pride, Theatricality, Rob the Grinder. I have a suggestion: Forget…
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4266 words)

LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS

JONATHAN LETHEMon his obsession with an immortal literary character. Norman Mailer Reads Norman Mailer 1969 Prestige Lively Arts Catalog # LA 30009 Advertisements for…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2009 words)
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