philosophical conversations (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Monika Kaup in her The Neobaroque in Djuna Barnes in Modernism/Modernity says that Michel Foucault argued in The Order of Things, that the episteme of modernity was first articulated in the seventeenth-century baroque. Foucault writes: At the beginning of the seventeenth century during the period that has been termed, rightly...
Maitresse (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Flaubert's Sentimental Education (1869) recounts how a young man from the provinces, Frédéric Moreau, "goes up" to Paris with dreams of becoming a real writer. Monter à Paris: it's quite the cliché today, but for centuries, as David Burke shows...
Diana Souhami · blog (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Last week as part of the London Literature Festival there was a sort of Gay Good Read event at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Eight of us – authors - each talked about a book. Sarah Mcleod – who has written a quirky, delightful debut novel In Search of the Missing Eyelash – chose Crocodile Soup [...]
Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
B orn today: Johanna Spyri, children's author, Hirzel, Switzerland, 1829; Djuna Barnes, poet, illustrator, author, Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y., 1892; ; Saul Steinberg (ps. Saul Jacobson), artist, cartoonist, New York City, 1914 James Houston, illustrator, designer, children's author, filmmaker, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1921; Anne Frank, diarist, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, 1929; Trevanian (ps. Rodney...
The Horse Hospital (Free subscription) | 28/05/2008
Tuesday 3rd June 7:30pm £3 An evening celebrating Dalkey Archive's classic avant-garde books, and discovering which writers carry the flame...
The Beat (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
I am putting together a one-off issue of Sein und Werden to be sold at MAPS - the music/lit/art/poetry festival taking place in my home town at the end of May. I would therefore like to put out a general call for submissions.Anyone and everyone can submit. Here are a few things to consider: - fiction, poetry, [...]
alain finkielkrautrock (Free subscription) | 28/11/2007
Djuna Barnes (Copenhagen) / hippie not hippie mix Eden Abhez – Intro : The Wanderer & Eden's Island Caribou – Melody Day (Four Tet remix) Taken By Trees /The Tough Alliance - Taken Too Young Brian Eno - A Long Way Down Findlay Brown - Losing the Wizard To Survive (Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve remix) Rhonda Harris - Kathleen Tarwater - When Love Was the Law in Los Angeles Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbits...
