Paris Without End, the Novel
Some call this shadow I’m Brailing walls in Paris down rue Jacob night, having
satisfied both cultural & sexual curiosity, within visual pulse of the neon deus ex
machinas, reptilian instincts keen to the jazz dizzying dervishing whirlwind Id.
Again, limestone weight of Time coupled with glass desublimation of the [...]
Without really knowing why, my reading these days consists primarily of philosophy-as-literature instead of straight-up fiction. Thinking about this it sounds kind of stupid, since all literature can in some sense be deemed philosophy. But still, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which I have been sneaking off to read every chance I’ve gotten [...]
Tagged Cocaine, Culture, Literature, Philosophy, Tarantino, TVThis week, due to time constraints and other nuisances, I have chosen to highlight Bent Sørensen’s excellent three part series on the Beat Generation, specifically, Beat ‘Others.’ It’s an interesting angle on an interesting movement; the role of women and colored people. In the course we had at U. of Copenhagen on American Literature and [...]
Tagged American Studies, Blogs, Culture, LiteratureI am writing this after 8 hours of standing up and doing nothing, followed by 45 minutes of thrashing around on the squash court, getting humiliated by a curly Italian 3 years younger than me. So my nerves and reflexes are understandably shaken. What I need now is a beer and a book, and tonight [...]
Tagged Binge Drinking, Culture, Literature, Movies, Philosophy“In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.”
Michael Chabon
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Pardon the absence, but Portugal and Italy and I apparently did not equal any kind of efficiency. Back to the real world and hopefully an interesting season ahead of [...]
Bastille Day in America
Swung toward work enclosures today as I ironed my linen shirt, a shirt one
doesn’t wear to work, say, leather factory with its massive dyeing wheels & dryer
belts, or soon enough fish with its saws could cut a man’s arm up to here; then
meat, where the difference in temperature between what lands in [...]
My Friends & I
It was a regal dove I caught sight of on the limb of a small oak, huge in the
throat, calling his mate in his monogamous mourning, but causing a ruckus
among the other birds fluttering around trying to mimic his masterful intonation.
Ledge stones chimed in, & the Cape Brindisi, docked across the way, [...]
At LA Weekly there is a Q & A with the literary critic James Wood, who is under fire at the moment and has been for some time now. I am not completely up-to-date on the polemics surrounding Wood but the interview/Q & A is interesting as an entry point into the debacle. Wood, in [...]
Tagged Belletristic, Criticism, Culture, Literature, Ménage a troisEverlasting Celestial & Terrestrial Dynamics
I.
We’re steps from the ocean: 150 for her, 142 for moi. Woke less than two hours
into summer digging the energy all around earth & universe. Turned the light on
at 3:40 in the morning & opened a notebook that seemed exactly ten-years old,
what with all the paraphernalia stuck in between front [...]
Summer is upon us, though the weather may not always be clear about this. There is nothing like being caught unawares in freezing rain wearing nothing but a tank top, shorts and worn flip-flops. This is what summer in Denmark is, and we like it. Summer also means beach reading, and sometimes train and plane [...]
Tagged Column, Culture, Libary, Literature, Readings, Recommendations, Summer