@Greg_Gerke

2 essay books: A New Scar in Time & December to December forthcoming in 2028. https://xitter.cf/t.co/91uksSr8CH Editor: https://xitter.cf/t.co/i7LiWqHcAs

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Socrates on the Beach is now on hiatus. Apologies to the people who submitted for the fall issue. socratesonthebeach.com/

Socrates on the Beach Literary Journal

A literary journal highlighting longer works of prose.

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Brighton Grace@BrightonGrace37Oct 23
I have an essay out via @the_met_review all about the effects of abysmal editing standards amongst modern writers and publications (and all about the baffling and glaring flaws/typos in Percival Everett's The Trees). We are living in The Typo Generation metropolitanreview.org/p/the…

The Typo Generation Is Damaging Literature

On Percival Everett’s ‘The Trees’ and the Problem with Today’s Books

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Bill Gass said we should read Donne! That's enough for me. socratesonthebeach.com/willi… cc @Greg_Gerke

William H. Gass - Baroque Prose — Socrates on the Beach

Gass describes the prose of the Baroque period with an emphasis on John Donne.

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Leo Robson@leorobsonwriterOct 17
Here's my @LRB piece about Ralph Ellison, not as novelist but as essayist + correspondent after Invisible Man during the decades he worked on his second novel (posthumously published in unfinished form), with thoughts from Saul Bellow, Irving Howe et al lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n19/…

Leo Robson · Sick of the Subject: Ralph Ellison’s Interventions

If Invisible Man risked a too easy transcending of the pain it described, fulfilling one half of the ‘tragicomic’ or...

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Erratum@press_erratumOct 14
Daniela Cascella reading 9 Oct from BEAUTY, BURNING: THE CONDITION OF MUSIC with Ellen Dillon at the Hundred Years Gallery, London. Photo credit: Helena Hunter erratumpress.com/beauty-burn…
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Degas at the Met

The title is surely a joke. There is so much Degas at the Met, thanks to Mary Cassatt advising the Havermeyers to buy his works in Paris…

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It's KRASNER Pollock, actually. Like Morisot and others, we need more about Krasner.
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gregor@gruxamengusOct 11
This is a fruitful approach to seeing Degas
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Degas at the Met

The title is surely a joke. There is so much Degas at the Met, thanks to Mary Cassatt advising the Havermeyers to buy his works in Paris…

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Degas at the Met

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Robert Musil: “Youth overvalues the newest, because it feels itself to be the same age as it.” But really most people on here overvalue new "art"...
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Great stuff on Degas
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"LEARNING TO BETTER APPRECIATE MATISSE" to be published in Liberties...
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The 8 Rembrandts in Proust...
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This Poussin essay is the flagship of the art book, December to December, coming in 2028. greg-gerke.medium.com/poussi…
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Emmett Stinson@EmmettStinsonOct 9
Very pleased to have reviewed Richard Harms' Gerald Murnane: A Bibiliography of the Published works in the new issue of Australian Book Review. australianbookreview.com.au/…
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