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For @nytimes, I wrote about Gerald Murnane's last book. nytimes.com/2022/05/03/books…
For @nytimes, I wrote about Adolfo Bioy Casares’s “Morel’s Invention.” (Gift link below)
Received a kind note from Joseph McElroy. He said he’s completing “a very long and risky novel set in 5th-century-BC Greece.”
I wrote about Hilda Hilst, James Salter, Joseph McElroy, and a few other writers I admire. theatlantic.com/books/2026/0…
Jorge Luis Borges on adventure stories (from his introduction to Adolfo Bioy Casares’s “Morel’s Invention”)
Hawkes is going around today. His best imo:
1. The Lime Twig
2. The Passion Artist
3. Second Skin
4. The Beetle Leg
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William Gaddis' "Literature of Failure" course syllabus. (Bard College, 1979) – at San Diego, CA
This morning the brodernist guy called me "America's worst working critic." Buddy, I thought we had a symbiotic relationship...
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For the NYT Book Review, I wrote about Guillermo Stitch's sophomore novel, "The Coast of Everything." I didn't like it very much. (Gift link below)
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For @PoetryFound, I wrote about the great Canadian poet Karen Solie. (link below)
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"To read her work is to partake in the beleaguered freedom of the wanderer or lowlife, out of luck and money, but rarely short on perspective." — @ddillingworth on Karen Solie, arguably Canada's greatest living poet poetryfoundation.org/article…
For @PoetryFound, I wrote about the great Canadian poet Karen Solie. (link below)
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For @nytimes, I wrote about Wolfgang Koeppen’s extraordinary Trilogy of Failure. nytimes.com/2026/04/28/books…
For @nytimes, I wrote about Wolfgang Koeppen’s extraordinary Trilogy of Failure. nytimes.com/2026/04/28/books…
I hope new readers of “The Tunnel” (great book) find their way to Gass’s best novel, “Omensetter’s Luck.”
