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Greg Gerke

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…

4d ago

ON READING FLEUR JAEGGY’S SWEET DAYS OF DISCIPLINE

4d ago

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

John Ford on Death’s Doorstep

I’m not sure that I’ve ever expected anything from a John Ford film. Two of his films that I’ve always had a fascination with, The…

Sep 2

John Ford on Death’s Doorstep

Sep 2

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

Janet Malcolm — On a sentence from the essay “A Girl of the Zeitgeist”

Janet Malcolm — a sentence from the essay “A Girl of the Zeitgeist” in the book Forty-One False Starts

Jul 16

Janet Malcolm — On a sentence from the essay “A Girl of the Zeitgeist”

Jul 16

Greg Gerke

On a Passage of Paul Valéry’s “Poetry and Abstract Thought”

…though made by someone other than the speaker and addressed to someone other than the listener…it is a language within a language.”

Jul 5

On a Passage of Paul Valéry’s “Poetry and Abstract Thought”

Jul 5

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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