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Greg Gerke

Greg Gerke

Excerpt from The Other House (in progress)

4d ago

Excerpt from The Other House (in progress)

4d ago

Greg Gerke

Canetti, Coppola, and a Corridor

The other morning I was reading Elias Canetti’s Voices of Marrakesh, and early in the book, in a chapter on souks (bazaars) there is this…

Oct 25

Canetti, Coppola, and a Corridor

Oct 25

Greg Gerke

JENNIFER JASON LEIGH AND ME

It’s taken some years to return to 1996 and decipher just what was going on between Jennifer Jason Leigh and me. Our elder selves don’t…

Oct 17

JENNIFER JASON LEIGH AND ME

Oct 17

Greg Gerke

ON READING FLEUR JAEGGY’S SWEET DAYS OF DISCIPLINE

I tend to have many thoughts when I read a book — or does the writer’s imagination just make me more aware of them? Over the four days of…

Oct 8

ON READING FLEUR JAEGGY’S SWEET DAYS OF DISCIPLINE

Oct 8

Greg Gerke

PAEAN TO JACK WARDEN

Of course there are other actors like him (M. Emmet Walsh). And there those actors that are so distinctive that I can see many different…

Oct 3

PAEAN TO JACK WARDEN

Oct 3

Greg Gerke

Reading Styles

At a recent discussion group for two novels, we talked of how we read certain books — the method of reading, whether to read in small…

Sep 26

Reading Styles

Sep 26

Greg Gerke

On a Passage from Christine Schutt’s “Winterreise” in the book A Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer

The Bite of Schutt

Sep 20

On a Passage from Christine Schutt’s “Winterreise” in the book A Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer

Sep 20

Greg Gerke

On Showing Bits of Ingmar Bergman’s Persona to my Seven-Year-Old

On Showing Bits of Bergman’s Persona to my Seven-Year-Old

Sep 10

On Showing Bits of Ingmar Bergman’s Persona to my Seven-Year-Old

Sep 10

Greg Gerke

Handke and Time-Travel

Another mostly mild winter of herky-jerky temperatures encapsulated New York in January, but Peter Handke — whose literary star has been…

Aug 30

Handke and Time-Travel

Aug 30

Greg Gerke

Back to Coney Island, Back to “The Windhover”

Conjunctions stir my soul, but where do they leave it? In Ireland (County Down) we again returned to the small village of Coney Island…

Aug 12

Back to Coney Island, Back to “The Windhover”

Aug 12

Greg Gerke

Greg Gerke

Author of In the Suavity of the Rock (Splice), See What I See (Zerogram Press) and Especially the Bad Things (Splice) greggerke.com

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