Languor Management (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
In this month's The Believer magazine, Adam Thirlwell expresses quite well something that I have yearned yet failed to express for some time, namely that Style can be translated across languages even if formal elements like meter and rhyme must...
Brit Lit Blogs (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Adam Thirlwell’s Miss Herbert last year came in for a good deal of stick from critics, largely for its sprawling self-indulgence. I won’t deny those charges, but I remain indebted to Thirlwell for introducing me to authors I didn’t know, including Robert Walser . Still more prominently featured in his book was Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), so when I saw that Bloomsbury...
reeling and writhing (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
... Daniel Handler Anna Krien Karen Russell The Wrens Benjamin Law Jeffrey Brown Pikelet Bachelorette Adam Thirlwell Heidi Julavits Robert Olen Butler Frightened Rabbit Dan Deacon The Panda Band Carey Mercer (from Frog Eyes) Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin The Capstan Shafts Jim Shepard, and 89 more. There is also word of a song performed by Jonathan Lethem's band, and a sale of...
