Written Lives by Javier Marías Translated by Margaret Jull Costa Penguin Modern Classics, 2016 (First published in English by New Directions in 2006) 208 pages – Penguin /Amazon The great figures in…
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Two Memoirs: An Auto+Biography by Amanda Montei Jaded Ibis Productions, 2015 210 pages – Amazon Amanda Montei’s Two Memoirs: An Auto+Biography is a unique hybrid of a book. Occupying a…
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Utopia Parkway: The Life and Times of Joseph Cornell Other Press, 2015 – reprint (originally published in 1997) 592 pages – Other Press / Amazon What do we make…
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LiteratureOpinionTHE HAUNTED HOUSE: WEEK FOUR
“Laughter in the face of Dying, Death in the face of Laughing”I spent the last few weeks working my way through Michel Surya’s brilliant 1984 biography of Georges Bataille. In French, the subtitle of the book is “la mort à l’oeuvre,”…