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NOT RECONCILED: GERALD MURNANE’S A MILLION WINDOWS

Originally published at Splice

2d ago

NOT RECONCILED: GERALD MURNANE’S A MILLION WINDOWS

2d ago

Hair Going Places (in-progress book) Carl Dreyer section

After 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…

4d ago

Hair Going Places (in-progress book) Carl Dreyer section

4d ago

BABY SHARKS

Some wordsmiths claim they work by serendipity. Certainly James Joyce would have qualified. When Samuel Beckett was taking dictation from…

Dec 16, 2024

BABY SHARKS

Dec 16, 2024

On a Paragraph by Colette in The Pure and the Impure

Colette. The one word, forbiddingly cast on stone representing the world’s great writers. Forbidden because of subject or the way she can…

Nov 29, 2024

On a Paragraph by Colette in The Pure and the Impure

Nov 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, 2024

ON MARRIANE MOORE’S “SILENCE”

Nov 20, 2024

Excerpt from The Other House (in progress)

Nov 2, 2024

Excerpt from The Other House (in progress)

Nov 2, 2024

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, 2024

Canetti, Coppola, and a Corridor

Oct 25, 2024

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, 2024

JENNIFER JASON LEIGH AND ME

Oct 17, 2024

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, 2024

ON READING FLEUR JAEGGY’S SWEET DAYS OF DISCIPLINE

Oct 8, 2024

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, 2024

PAEAN TO JACK WARDEN

Oct 3, 2024

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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