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Three Books by Seann McCollum
1. shoplift a six-pack of love from the plaid pantry of my heart The 49 short prose pieces in this book will make you laugh and they just might put a hairline crack in your little heart. I can’t...
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Fredric Brown: A Pal For Life
When I was in 7th grade I met a boy who, like me, enjoyed writing stories and poems. He and I were awarded pens for our work on the school magazine. Later on, in high school, we worked together again...
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Badiou on Beckett
rest then my mistakes are my life the knees draw up the back bends the head comes to rest on the sack between the hands my sack my body all mine all these parts every part —Samuel Beckett, How It Is, p...
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Robert Wyatt: Different Every Time
You know that saying, the devil is in the detail? I think the devil runs the show, and God is in the detail. —Robert Wyatt* Robert Wyatt’s music has been a source of nourishment for me since the very...
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The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett
Anyone who is as interested in Beckett as I am will have to have a copy of The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett, but those with a less intense interest would do better to buy the fourth volume of the...
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The Poetry of Kenneth Fearing
I’m falling in love with Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems, a book I stumbled across in a used bookstore. Fearing’s name was familiar to me from a couple of anthologies, but they had only given me a...
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Another Sweet Disorder
I’ve been working on some prose fiction for the past couple of weeks, for me a frustrating process of leaving the commas out, putting them in, taking them out again, then putting them back in and...
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John Fante’s Road to Los Angeles
The one for whom I write…. will have to weep out of compassion…. then he will laugh, for he has recognized himself…. I offer him a puzzle: his greatest danger? would it be to weep—or to laugh? or to...
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Six Examples of Perfection in the Arts
El Greco, Christ Carrying the Cross, 1595, WikiArt It’s not a large painting, and it’s not complicated. It may be a study for a more complex painting, and it may even be a piece of a larger painting,...
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What I’ve been reading
This blog’s silence lately has been partly due to the fact I’ve been more interested in reading than blogging this year. Here’s a list of books I’ve read so far: Breezeway and Three Poems by John...
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