The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855-1872 (The Complete Letters of Henry James)
Madinkbeard (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
I've added a new "My Comics" category to the blog. Since Things Change is on hiatus, I'll be posting more non-series based comics. For November I'm working on a "30 Days of Comics" project (I made it up, as a kind of corollary to NaNoWriMo), where I'm writing a short comic every day of the month. My schedule is such that I can't actually draw the comic that same day, so I'll be...
the Richard Larson blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
From "The Madness of Art," by Joyce Carol Oates: Those of us (how many of us!) who have given our souls to the activity of writing are obviously engaged in a lifelong quest. Perhaps, though we experience ourselves as individuals,...
Ivebeenreadinglately (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A recent post by OGIC at About Last Night having convinced me that I'd been away from Henry James too long, I'm currently hip-deep in The Ambassadors (1905), which, knowing my tastes, was where OGIC suggested I dive in--right into the heart of baroque, roundabout late period James. And she was right: I find myself deeply admiring James's odd combination of tenacity and circumspection, his constant...
Montag ... (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
At this stage in its existence, Richardson & Bluhm book publishers is not doing well enough to allow its principals, or anyone else, to quit the day job. But it's sure fun making books, and fun has something to say for itself. Given a choice of things to do Monday, I spent part of it tinkering with the existing product. I added a couple of introductory essays to our edition of Tom Paine's Letters...
John Gushue . . . Dot Dot Dot (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
"She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table." - Henry James
Bryan Appleyard (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
I just heard a 14-year-old Pakistani boy on the radio. His entire family had been killed by a bomb. It made me think of In Treatment. I know people who are addicted to this TV series which consists solely of (fictional) psychotherapy sessions conducted by Dr Paul Weston (Gabriel Byrne). We see successive sessions involving the same patients. Only one of these - the young gymnast - seems to me to
Moments of Tranquility (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Several months have passed since I wrote something in this space. There was nothing in particular that held me back other than the routine, ordinary distractions of life but often it is a work of literature or art that, as the Quakers say, "moves one to speak". Recently a friend and a colleague died at a young age and I had the subject of death on my mind when I came across W.H. Auden's poem...
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
HALLOWE'EN is an apt season for Britten's creepy masterpieceThe Turn Of The Screw, based on the Henry James ghost story. David McVicar's revived 2007 staging takes the opera back to the Victorian era of shadowy houses and costumes of black bombazine. Tanya McCallin's set of sliding translucent screens and furniture under dust-covers conjures up a sinister household of repressed secrets.
http://ruedatropical.wordpress.com (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Mike Terraferma just finished brazing the main triangle (58 x 58 ) for his new super-randonneur. Henry James lugs, True Temper OX Platinum (7-4-7) standard size tubing. Next up – bending the chainstays to accommodate a 58mm fender and 650×42B tire. Posted in Framebuilders, Frames/Forks
Isola di Rifiuti (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
A Wall A YEAR CCCIII W—, Vive l’imprimerie! Its nul ptyx outlandishness! Its typos! Need for a hooplah to rev the lyric kine. They moo so. Or too. Henry James’d say “indigenous vogues and literary flurry” and’d prooffe to bee ryghte: I am wow’d by each spec and spectre of unleash’d orthographic tort. Gregariousness in the slips, the lexicographers hiss....
Between the Covers (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Reader imbibing peril indeed! In the last two months I have (vicariously) been trapped in haunted castles in mediaeval Europe, learned of a friend’s horrifying transformations, gone on a body-snatching expedition, discovered dark family secrets in the mountains of Spain, been pursued across England by a malevolent supernatural force, and made a deal with ... well, I’m not quite sure with...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Two new scholar publications with Brontë content: From Wollstonecraft to Stoker Essays on Gothic and Victorian Sensation Fiction Edited by Marilyn Brock ISBN 978-0-7864-4021-4 notes, bibliographies, index 220pp. softcover 2009 This collection of 13 essays examines the work of Victorian authors Wilkie Collins, M.E. Braddon, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Mary Wollstonecraft, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram...
bello velo (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
HUNTSVILLE, AL -- A group of local cyclists is determined to make automobile-obsessed Huntsville safer for people on two wheels. The year-old Bicycle Advisory and Safety Committee met Tuesday at City Hall to hear concerns and gather ideas from the public. And there was plenty of concern in the wake the city's third bicycle traffic death in 13 months. Around 2:15 a.m. Saturday, 49-year-old cyclist Henry...
Crunchy Chicken (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Hoo boy! I've been getting behind on my bloggy work mostly because of a variety of things going on around here. With Emma's sixth birthday party last weekend, a book club meet-up this weekend (Henry James' short stories), Halloween coming up and all the work, school and other Halloween parties to deliberate about and whether or not I'm going dressed up as Frida Kahlo, a geisha or a creepy
Bookninja (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Edwin Frank, who besides being the editor for the NYRB Classics series was also my neighbour when I lived in New York (and possibly the nicest guy I met there), is interviewed at the Amazon blog. Amazon.com: How do the books come to you? Through your own reading and research, or through recommendations from other writers [...]
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