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Thoughts on The Point’s Alt Lit EssayThis morning I continued reading Proust’s later essay on Flaubert in 1920, written in response to a critic of the day. As I delighted in…Feb 6Feb 6
Does Eric Rohmer Have the All of Me?The first half of the 10K essay on Eric Rohmer from See What I See. Please support Zerogram, which took a big hit in the LA fires, and…Jan 27Jan 27
Hair Going Places (in-progress book) Carl Dreyer sectionAfter so many years in thrall to cinema, I still don’t quite know what it is, except to say “magic,” a la Ingmar Bergman’s Magic Lantern…Jan 18Jan 18
BABY SHARKSSome wordsmiths claim they work by serendipity. Certainly James Joyce would have qualified. When Samuel Beckett was taking dictation from…Dec 16, 2024Dec 16, 2024
On a Paragraph by Colette in The Pure and the ImpureColette. The one word, forbiddingly cast on stone representing the world’s great writers. Forbidden because of subject or the way she can…Nov 29, 2024Nov 29, 2024
ON MARRIANE MOORE’S “SILENCE”The mishmash of the poet (author) with the speaker of the poem (fiction), in verse or prose, is a misprision often attacked by the greats…Nov 20, 2024Nov 20, 2024