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Greg Gerke

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

3d ago

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

3d ago

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

Excerpt from In the Suavity of the Rock

Jun 13

Excerpt from In the Suavity of the Rock

Jun 13

Greg Gerke

On a Passage from James Salter’s Light Years

“He was self-indulgent, a failure. He had not abandoned failure; it was his address, his street, his one comfort. His life was one of…

Jun 9

On a Passage from James Salter’s Light Years

Jun 9

Greg Gerke

On a Sentence in Garielle Lutz’s Backwardness

“We ducked into a restroom at Burger King to kiss quickly, shiftily, before somebody barged in to take a simple, easy-hearted…

Jun 1

On a Sentence in Garielle Lutz’s Backwardness

Jun 1

Greg Gerke

On a Paragraph of Christina Tudor-Sideri’s in Schism Blue

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May 25

On a Paragraph of Christina Tudor-Sideri’s in Schism Blue

May 25

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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