March 2012
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Christine Brooke-Rose (1923-2012) →
So sad to hear about the passing of Christine Brooke-Rose. What a radiant shining light glimmering above the slog! We can’t imitate the wordplay (“affrodizzyacts,” though we try). Her words: “Let us play: there are more theories in heaven and earth.” Her friend Roland Barthes’s words: “The writerly text is ourselves writing, before the infinite play of the world is traversed, intersected,...
Mar 23rd
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Mar 20th
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Mar 16th
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Beware the Ides, beware the Eagles →
… . Enter Maria Wyke’s Caesar: A Life in Western Culture, which produces a Caesar for our own times: lustful, contested, and complicated; (im)postured by everyone from Tacitus to Mussolini to the directors of HBO’s Rome; a cipher as ever-changing as the times. For the ides, which we’re doing our best to beware, read an excerpt about Caesar in light of fame and fable. “Been down the road to...
Mar 15th
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“I for one cannot resist a book whose first chapter is entitled “The...”
–  “The puppet, Gross notes, is political (they were banned in Mussolini’s Italy) and demonic.”
Mar 15th
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Mar 14th
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Hopelessly Devoted to Bruce Smith →
In the past few months, Bruce Smith’s Devotions has been nominated for the National Book Award (which went to Nikki Finney, for Head Off & Split), the National Book Critics Circle Award (which just last night went to Laura Kasischke, for Space, in Chains), and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (which will be announced on April 20). One of Smith’s previous collections The Other Lover (2000) was...
Mar 9th
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Listen Dmitry Samarov reads from Hack: Stories from a...
Mar 9th
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Jacqueline Rose among the Nations →
Yesterday was International Women’s Day, and after embarking on our own etymological lesson on the Middle English plural, we learned about “womyn’s” slip into print, through the works of Scottish writer James Hogg. Though his work was later championed by André Gide, Hogg was a bit of a bumpkin (eulogized by Wordsworth as the “Shepherd-poet,” but with a grain of salt under the tongue—see W.’s notes...
Mar 9th
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Excerpt from Art : 21 / Bad at Sports interview... →
On Chicago Makes Modern: The third book—who knew there’d be a third book?—started from a very different place. Then as head of the SAIC Exhibitions Department in 2008, I was thinking: What can the Art Institute of Chicago’s Modern Wing mean for SAIC? What does modern mean today and in Chicago? How is it that we still define our society as modern? This was a big subject and we needed to get...
Mar 8th
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Consider Our New Home (Tribute to Edith) →
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