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Greg Gerke

Vestiges (Life and Art book)

The vestige — what I’m selling is art directs us every moment of our day — every moment unconsciously or not, we are remembering the…

4d ago

Vestiges (Life and Art book)

4d ago

Creative Disturbance

There is something that has left me perturbed. Merleau-Ponty, a phenomenologist, says the imagination is weak and perception is strong…

May 29

Creative Disturbance

May 29

Excerpt from The Other House

A few months later her best friend, Flora, asked her to accompany to one of his “talks “ at the Center for Fiction. A talk of secrets of…

May 26

Excerpt from The Other House

May 26

Cézanne in Philadelphia and Everywhere Else

I imagine there is a mildly correct way to be an art critic, to get caught up in dates and purchases to some degree, and then throw that…

May 12

Cézanne in Philadelphia and Everywhere Else

May 12

My Bushwick Writer Friend, Elizabeth Bishop, and Me

My Bushwick writer friend upbraided me in “public,” telling on me, telling how I liked subjective writers — I thought that was my secret…

May 8

My Bushwick Writer Friend, Elizabeth Bishop, and Me

May 8

Excerpt from The Other House

Apr 10

Excerpt from The Other House

Apr 10

Spain, Madrid, Prado, Goya…

Is the sublime aesthetic experience still possible when over fifty? How could I ever doubt it? Just a few weeks ago, I spoke to a writer…

Apr 4

Spain, Madrid, Prado, Goya…

Apr 4

Excerpt from The Other House

When I write about these things I don’t just feel in control — I am in control. I believe this is why people write fiction — or so I…

Mar 27

Excerpt from The Other House

Mar 27

Excerpt from The Other House

On his mother’s birthday he had a dream that a woman came up to him at an event and hugged him from behind. An Indian woman. Tall. Taller…

Mar 5

Excerpt from The Other House

Mar 5

Thoughts on The Point’s Alt Lit Essay

This 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 6

Thoughts on The Point’s Alt Lit Essay

Feb 6

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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