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I wrote a review of American Abductions by @IneluctableQuak This is an important novel. I talk some about its form in the review.

Topography of Terror: A Review of American Abductions by Mauro Javier Cárdenas

By Jay Innis Murray In his 2021 interview with Dustin Illingworth, Mauro Javier Cárdenas teases and waves at the influence of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape on his then work-in-progress. It’s a…

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Kafka in his high school years.

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Kafka, age 2. Pouting.

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Proust Barbie.

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Ever see a picture of Derrida as a young person? Here 19/20 years old.

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People who stack books in piles. Sontag & Bowie. 1/

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The Magic Mountain turns 100 years old this year. Good old 1924. This opening paragraph is almost unbelievably ambitious.

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Photo of Wittgenstein as a child.

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Ashbery and poet Farida Majid winning the 1970s with this amazing snap.

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JG Ballard from Paris Review interview.

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Great guiding light Walter Benjamin was born in Berlin on this day in 1892.

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Tolstoy by the sea, 1901.

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Borges at the Poe memorial in Baltimore when he visited Johns Hopkins in 1983.

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Epigraph from new book mail.

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hbd to the great Susan Sontag.

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Bolaño on Blood Meridian.

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Kafka in the mountains. 1920 or 1921. He sought treatment for tuberculosis at a sanatorium in the High Tatras.

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Young Salman Rushdie with his two sisters and a copy of Peter Pan.

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Never saw this one before. Sontag with Salman Rushdie and Toni Morrison.

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Emil Cioran was born on this day in 1911, but it would be absurd to say hbd.

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Virginia Woolf and her sister Vanessa. Classic modernist test innings.

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Renoir and Mallarmé. Paris, 1895. I believe the blurred out photographer in the mirror is the painter Edgar Degas.

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Roland Barthes, age 20, iron railing.

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hbd Umberto Eco. Born 5 Jan 1932.

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88th birthday of Georges Perec. Barely older than Pynchon and DeLillio but gone 40+ years already.

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Good day for Beckett drinking photos.

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Javier Marías at his desk. His father is behind him. Philosopher Julían Marías.

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Thomas Bernhard sitting, legs crossed.

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Great candid shot of Ashbery watching Marianne Moore’s reaction to Ginsberg.

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Best book on this shelf?

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Blood Meridian spotted in the new True Detective episode.

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Astounding Pynchon cover work.

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Increasingly obvious to me that after Beckett, the best photographed major writer was John Ashbery.

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Foucault talks into a mic, as Sartre lights up a cigarette. The man behind them, turned profile, is Deleuze.

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Adorno with an early selfie.

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Nothing beats a double birthday.

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Best historical novel of the 20th century (says Perry Anderson). Let’s see.

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Beckett & some trash for some reason.

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As requested, Bolaño smoking. There are quite a few cartoons and other fan artworks of this subject.

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Maybe life is a process of trading hopes for memories. (Vollmann, The Rifles)

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Any of these any good?

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HBD Marcel Proust.

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Edward Said playing piano.

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Saw somebody on reddit say they “just read Pale Fire” and should they read the Commentary? I couldn’t breathe for about ten full minutes.

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Borges with some cats.

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@thehill When you have half the % of the leader you haven’t skyrocketed to the top. Jesus

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Another shelf. Best book on this one?

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with drawings by Guy Davenport.

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Another favorite of Ashbery and O’Hara.

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Cats are drawn to the activity of writing. Here’s one guarding Arno Schmidt.

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hbd Emily Dickinson.

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Flannery O’Connor was born on this day 99 years ago. A writing career cut short by her death at age 39.

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Happy 98th birthday Frank O’Hara.

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For his birthday, here is Haruki Murakami and some cats. Born 1949.

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205th birthday of multitudes container Walt Whitman. Born on this day in 1819.

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The chat bots are years away from anything approaching depth.

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Pynchon is 87 today. I discovered him in college when I read a Kurt Cobain interview that mentioned him. The first book I read was a library bound version of the edition of GR below. First Pynchon book I owned was the amazing paperback of V. below.

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Marcel Proust, 15 years old, in early 1887. Photos by Nadar’s son, Paul.

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Third book finished this year is The Leopard (1958). Could be a case study on mimetic desire. He worshipped Stendhal, a difficult model, but he succeeds. The long Sicilian half century of social change (1860 to 1910).

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This is a strange Borges story.

The Gospel According to Mark

“Espinosa understood what awaited him on the other side of the door.”

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Tolstoy ice skating.

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William Gaddis and David Markson, and I think I see Hegel on the shelf behind.

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Happy birthday today to Stendhal, one of the few fiction writers Nabokov was extremely wrong about.

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Minor readers like to recognize their own ideas in a pleasing disguise. - - Nabokov

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James Baldwin smoking, a series.

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Fredric Jameson is 90 today.

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Djuna Barnes on a boat. 1922.

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hbd Jean-Michel Basquiat. Here is the haunted Riding with Death (1988).

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99th birthday today of writer, artist and illustrator Edward Gorey.

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What’s your take on The Adventures of Augie March? I’m back to it 20 years after I first read it. The prose has so much life in it. I’d forgotten.

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What’s everyone reading this weekend?

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Striking portrait of Basquiat and a Siamese cat by James Van Der Zee. 1982.

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Don DeLillo and a cat w/ brick wall.

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99th birthday of Russell Hoban. I’m delighted by the books he’s got here.

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Happy birthday to Stéphane Mallarmé. Born on this day in 1842. Here is Manet’s portrait of him from 1876. I like the cigar smoke, the shiny buttons.

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“Apollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio.” (Hart Crane)

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Bleeding Edge is 10 years old. How about another book already, old man.

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Talese, Sontag, Mailer and Vidal. 1993.

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Kerouac’s 102nd birthday today. Here he is in 1967 with his mother & a cat.

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Julio Cortazar in his ID photo. 1929.

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WG Sebald age 17.

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New book mail.

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Happy 101st to William Gaddis.

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Happy birthday #150 Gertrude Stein.

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Can’t believe this is what DFW looks like.

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This catalog of mirrors Borges gives at the end of his story The Aleph.

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Anna Akhmatova recumbent.

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James Joyce died on this day, 1941.

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This might be the worst of these I’ve ever seen. That’s saying something.

Overrated Literary Classics (and What to Read Instead) | Book Riot

These overrated literary classics have had more than enough time in the sun. It's time to spend our time with some others!

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Samuel R. Delany wingspan & books.

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25 pages into DeLillo’s Americana and grinding my teeth. Tell me it gets better.

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She read too much — says husband.

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Knausgaard: “The key is not to think about the writing as good or bad, but to follow your fascination.”

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34th book of the year is King, Queen, Knave (1928) by Nabokov. His second novel. Took me a while to adjust to its bright, brutish tone, but it’s excellent. Written under the spell of Flaubert and twisting, it preps a catalog of poisons for the traditional novel.