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Reader’s Diary: A Poetry of Alternate Takes

Avatar photo by Barry Schwabsky March 5, 2017March 3, 2017

Marjorie Welish’s poetry, like Thelonious Monk’s music, is a montage of moving parts in which you’d be wise to expect the unexpected.

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Reader’s Diary: A Philosopher’s Fictions

Avatar photo by Barry Schwabsky February 26, 2017February 24, 2017

It’s kind of wonderful when pure chance leads you to a book that unexpectedly illuminates another one you’ve just read.

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Reader’s Diary: The Potential Novel of a Conceivable Algeria

Avatar photo by Barry Schwabsky February 19, 2017February 17, 2017

The 1950s through the mid-1970s were the great era of the unreadable novel. Kateb Yacine’s Nedjma was one of the first and most remarkable of these.

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Reader’s Diary: It Was a Colorful Year

Avatar photo by Barry Schwabsky February 12, 2017February 10, 2017

Darby English’s new book 1971 decries black nationalist demands for a unified artistic community in favor of abstraction, individualism, and personal autonomy.

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Reader’s Diary: The Monastery Door Is Open

Avatar photo by Barry Schwabsky February 5, 2017February 5, 2017

Pierre Reverdy’s novel The Thief of Talant is not a novel at all, but a long poem or sequence with elusive narrative underpinnings.

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Reader’s Diary: The Porn of Poetry

Avatar photo by Barry Schwabsky January 29, 2017January 27, 2017

Dodie Bellamy’s Cunt Norton isn’t exactly pornography, but it’s a step in the right direction.

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Reader’s Diary: The Importance of Being a Simile

Avatar photo by Barry Schwabsky January 22, 2017January 19, 2017

Although the poetry in Geoffrey Nutter’s Cities at Dawn is almost always calmly descriptive, whatever it describes is somehow something else and not itself.

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Reader’s Diary: David Graeber’s ‘Debt: The First 5,000 Years’

Avatar photo by Barry Schwabsky January 15, 2017January 15, 2017

It’s no wonder that few things inspire as much persistent paranoia as banking. But a little paranoia might not be such a bad thing.

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Reader’s Diary: ‘Bresson on Bresson’ 

Avatar photo by Barry Schwabsky December 25, 2016December 23, 2016

Before starting to make films, Robert Bresson had been a painter. Or rather, he remained one, since according to him, “It’s not possible to have been a painter and to no longer be one.”

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Reader’s Diary: Caetano Veloso’s ‘Tropical Truth’ 

Avatar photo by Barry Schwabsky December 18, 2016December 18, 2016

Caetano Veloso is an aesthete, not a man of politics, but the times and his conscience lent a political valence to his aesthetic choices.

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Reader’s Diary: Scott L. Malcomson’s ‘Generation’s End’

Avatar photo by Barry Schwabsky December 11, 2016December 9, 2016

It wasn’t exactly on purpose that, in the wake of the catastrophe that was Election Day, 2016, I started reading a book about the aftermath of the attacks of September 11, 2001.

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Reader’s Diary: Liam Gillick’s ‘Industry and Intelligence’ 

Avatar photo by Barry Schwabsky December 4, 2016December 2, 2016

Is Liam Gillick a writer?

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