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Paul Franz

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Posting about your private acquaintances to enjoy the dual pleasures of asserting proximity and issuing denunciations is singularly depraved.

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@providenceluvr Brando also claimed it was Coppola's pasta that made him fat in the first place.

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Reasonable people may differ with me, but I'd argue the greatest writers of fiction & poetry have been asexual--provided we define "sexual" as meaning "literally having sex with you right now." I don't think Joyce, Beckett, Faulkner, O'Connor, et al had any use for sex.

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@AntonJaegermm Kicking himself his editors didn't let him call it "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Life Inside the Third Reich but Nobody Ever Told Me Anything, I Was Merely a Humble Architect."

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@providenceluvr Love Apocalypse Now. Indelible images of purest cinema... and the more I watch, the more I realize how funny it is.

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Paul Franz

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reposting another old one

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Paul Franz

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For @realclearbooks I wrote about a new biography of James Salter; with a response to @rossbarkan , John Pistelli, and (indirectly) @borywrites on the plight of the male novelist, esp. when writing about sex.

The Salter Method

A retrospective on Martin Amis in the Times of London has voiced a complaint made several times in recent years—that young male writers are at a disadvantage, today, not just because of declinin

www.realclearbooks.com

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Paul Franz

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1 year

For the @hedgehogreview I wrote about Jonathan Lear's recent effort to reconceptualize the academic humanities, and perhaps -- by extension? -- the highest forms of human excellence as practices of mourning.

The Need for Mourning

Surely among the proper responses to despair is something more like disdain, contempt, loathing, a refusal to stoop—in short, a refusal to surrender?

hedgehogreview.com

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@Tyler_A_Harper

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Paul Franz

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@JFrankensteiner The added irony is that the original exchange is a rather trite attempt to establish Cloudy as an enlightened "good guy" to Popeye's racist bad guy.

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Paul Franz

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1 year

Very nice piece by Thomas Meaney for @Harpers on a new translation of Ernst Jünger with an intro by @JezewskaJ via @Harpers

History’s Fool, by Thomas Meaney

The long century of Ernst Jünger

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Paul Franz

@plfrnz

9 months

My article on Rachel Cusk's reading of D. H. Lawrence--of which the recent Second Place is but the latest instance--is now online.

The Persistence of the Archaic: Rachel Cusk as Reader of D. H. Lawrence

Adopting an intellectual-historical approach, this paper examines Rachel Cusk's career-long interest in the writings of D. H. Lawrence. Focusing on Lawrentian themes in the memoirs A Life's Work and...

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@queasy_f_bby Milk

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@carcrashgirl_ FERRARA That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. SCHRADER Smile for the camera, Abel.

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Paul Franz

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1 year

For the @PN_Review , I wrote about Louise Glück's enigmatic Marigold and Rose, and its relation to her longstanding fascination with rivalrous or hierarchical dyads:

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Paul Franz

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The point about "separating the artist from the art" is not that there is not interpretive insight to be gained from understanding the relation between life and art--of course there is, they are totally interpenetrated, one illuminates the other, of course--but rather that they

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@ResonantPyre Removed glove held in the teeth--one of the most unsettling:

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Paul Franz

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Academic declares himself incapable of reading the books that are the subject of the critical study upon which he, nevertheless, ventures to opine:

On Fredric Jameson's Fables of Aggression: Jameson at 90

Jameson once told me that, whatever the relative merits of Fables of Aggression might be, it had failed in one respect. He had never been able to persuade anyone that they should read Wyndham Lewis....

www.versobooks.com

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Paul Franz

@plfrnz

9 months

Happy to have a poem and essaylet alongside work by @unmeritedsteak @GDess @marsreviewer and @rubysutt among others; special thanks to @FOMO_sacer and @rjgittings for putting it together.

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Happy to have a piece on one of my favorite authors out in this beautiful new journal.

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Vulnerability is an artistic means, not an artistic end.

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Paul Franz

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From a few years back:

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Paul Franz

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For @hobartpulp , a fable.

Anabasis by Paul Franz

Ask any one of us. So many dark days we had spent under the trees, never wandering, never lost, yet lacking everything except that one direction that made our going possible. Ask anyone. Some nights...

www.hobartpulp.com

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Paul Franz

@plfrnz

6 months

The opening paragraphs of my little review of John Banville for @TheAtlantic trace the derivation of one of Jameson's riffs on a key detective motif--the clue--from its origins in Northrop Frye to Banville's second cadging of it:

How a Great Crime Writer Came to Imitate Himself

Over the past decade, John Banville has frankly apprenticed himself to the masters, including Henry James and Raymond Chandler. With his new novel, he’s come full circle.

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Fredric Jameson on English detective fiction versus American detective fiction

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@MrHWM No clue, but for @AirMailWeekly I touch on how James Ellroy took his modest fee for The Black Dahlia and invested in a publicist, reaping $$.

The “Demon Dog” of American Crime Fiction, Close-Up

The first full-length biography of the "L.A. Confidential" and "The Black Dahlia" author James Ellroy is out now.

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Paul Franz

@plfrnz

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Everything is a problem for the resentful.

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One problem with the genius model of creativity rn, in an era where we're all on here, is that treating something contemporary as a work genius means acknowledging that one of your peers is not your peer

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@vorticistgirl Well, or they were released at a time when popular/high art were blurred as in Ancient Athens, or high/commercial art were--for this medium and perhaps others--blurred as in Shakespeare's London.

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Paul Franz

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I wrote about Stephen Crane for @thenation

Stephen Crane’s Lifetime of Mystery

His visceral fiction and journalism might be best understood as a literature of pure immediacy.

www.thenation.com

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"important" and "necessary" are not terms of aesthetic judgment.

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@amandafortini Garter snake.

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Paul Franz

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For @tankmagazine , I wrote about my obsession with Terry Gilliam's 1996 time-travel film 12 Monkeys, a film that now seems prophetic not just of the recent pandemic, but of the simultaneous emergence of predictive AI and ubiquitous surveillance.

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Lovely essay on the late Helen Vendler by @yeppjane

The Lamp

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"Vendler was not just a meticulous close reader of poetry; as the title of her book 'Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats' suggests, she was a reader of other minds," writes @yeppjane .

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@SamBuntz Mesmerizing, deliriously romantic prose stylist. I'm glad I never read Gatsby in high school; coming upon it later on--being half resigned to have outgrown it--was a revelation.

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Paul Franz

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Questions that might preoccupy another writer are dismissed as inconsequential. Explaining, for Herzog, would amount to explaining away. For @thenation , @BooksandtheArts I wrote about a great filmmaker's ambivalent descent into prose: .

Werner Herzog’s Exit From Civilization

In his debut as a novelist, the filmmaker takes us to the jungles of the Philippines.

www.thenation.com

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@IneluctableQuak Krasznahork-tuah.

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@AugustLamm

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Such sweet release -- browser crashing, losing all your tabs.

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In @Greg_Gerke , the late Louise Glück finds one of her most perceptive commentators. At @clereviewbooks

Cleveland Review of Books

@clereviewbooks

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"When you grow up alongside a writer and see them change and rearrange and deliver a new object still dripping with sweat, that's different than merely recovering it from the long march of literature by the no-longer living." @Greg_Gerke on Louise Glück

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Paul Franz

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I wrote about Werner Herzog's debut novel for @thenation : .

Werner Herzog’s Exit From Civilization

In his debut as a novelist, the filmmaker takes us to the jungles of the Philippines.

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Pithy, finely observed analysis of Cusk's recent novel and career at large by @valerie_reads

Rachel Cusk’s Cruel Misandry

The woman who many years ago introduced me to Rachel Cusk had a particular Cuskian quirk that I remember well.

www.compactmag.com

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Paul Franz

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1 year

Now unpaywalled:

The Need for Mourning

Surely among the proper responses to despair is something more like disdain, contempt, loathing, a refusal to stoop—in short, a refusal to surrender?

hedgehogreview.com

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For the @hedgehogreview I wrote about Jonathan Lear's recent effort to reconceptualize the academic humanities, and perhaps -- by extension? -- the highest forms of human excellence as practices of mourning.

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I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence -- that is, as a disembodied voice in a multimedia experience. Check out my afterlife at @tankmagazine :

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@OedipasKvass I think she's great; but, almost precisely for that reason, I appreciate @xlorentzen 's more sardonic view:

Christian Lorentzen · Poor Rose: Against Alice Munro

It’s perhaps Munro’s consistency that her admirers cherish: ‘like butterscotch pudding on the boil...

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Another superb meditation on style from @lola_seaton : .

Lola Seaton, Mannerisms — Sidecar

The work of Brian Dillon.

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Paul Franz

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Reposting a story from earlier this summer in @hobartpulp

Anabasis by Paul Franz

Ask any one of us. So many dark days we had spent under the trees, never wandering, never lost, yet lacking everything except that one direction that made our going possible. Ask anyone. Some nights...

www.hobartpulp.com

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Paul Franz

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Superb @asgribbin poems, these.

Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics

@readliberties

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V4Iss3 now live

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Thank you to @RussellBennetts for featuring two of my poems in @berfrois : .

'Etymon' and 'Tristan and Isolde' by Paul Franz - Berfrois

Now neither leads and neither follows: home Is out of sight and mind for them, for them Whom nothing severs...

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For @berfrois and @RussellBennetts , two poems: .

'Etymon' and 'Tristan and Isolde' by Paul Franz - Berfrois

Now neither leads and neither follows: home Is out of sight and mind for them, for them Whom nothing severs...

www.berfrois.com

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Paul Franz

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2 years

“We do not need virtuosos of syntax,” Herzog wrote to himself while filming Fitzcarraldo. While I can hardly agree, the remark presents itself as a suitably rivalrous eulogy for Godard. See my latest for @thenation @booksandthearts : .

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Paul Franz

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1 year

Still working my way through the latest issue of this splendidly independent mag. Hoping to get to your Hill essay soon, @Greg_Gerke .

Greg Gerke / Socrates on the Beach

@Greg_Gerke

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The eighth issue of Socrates on the Beach is now live. Thank you to the writers and translator featured—I'm honored.

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Paul Franz

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I have measured out my life in redbull cans.

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@providenceluvr I love Palermo.

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Paul Franz

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1 year

A parenthetical remark in my essay, on the epistemic self-separation of the scholar, owes a debt to @trevorquirk 's essay on "Specialists without Spirit" for @the_point_mag -- a superb piece that everyone should read: .

Specialists Without Spirit

On the technical disaster movie

thepointmag.com

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Paul Franz

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2 years

@GDess @MichaelWarbur17 Her version is so wistful and understated. It's terrific.

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Fine, but less startling than my recent discovery of Northrop Frye's essay on the tramp.

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Charles Chaplin par Fernand Léger (1924)

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Characteristically superb essay by @blejksmith on, among other things, the eros of the intellect, the fascination of fascination:

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Without derogation to @jehsmith 's other splendid recent essays, this quieter new one moved me as few others have -- melancholy and, yes, promesses de bonheur found deep in the textures of daily living. Highly recommended.:

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Paul Franz

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Thank you to @NewStatesman @Will___lloyd @harrytlambert for featuring my piece on James Salter in this Saturday's roundup. Find it here👇.

The Salter Method

A retrospective on Martin Amis in the Times of London has voiced a complaint made several times in recent years—that young male writers are at a disadvantage, today, not just because of declinin

www.realclearbooks.com

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"Not the difficulty of choosing one’s path, but the difficulty of staying on the path that one has chosen, when that path is the path of art": this is a major essay on a major artist, one that resonates -- like its subject's work -- on the deepest frequencies.

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For @readliberties , I wrote about Sheila Heti's defense of aesthetic values during a period of great ambivalence about art

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Need to retire the "and its discontents" title formula.

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@JoyceCarolOates

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Picked a hell of a day to try to dominate the discourse with early 2000s sleaze rap parodies.

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Hey @mickeyavalon you should play this at your next gig.

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@arisroussinos Slo-mo, so often so tacky, becomes again wondrous at the end of this clip.

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even more vennerable

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you know who else liked venn diagrams? philip k dick. he was interested in the "vesica piscis," that area of intersection resembling the christian ichthys (the fish symbol). this symbol, on a necklace, fired a beam of light at him, diagnosing his son's hidden birth defect

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@cevangelista413 Brother, I beg to differ:

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Another one from this past year: on Gilliam's 12 Monkeys for @tankmagazine :

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Finding old notes for pieces better than the published pieces. Finding much that seemed unpublishable, better than anything I've published...

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Enjoying @gutkinlen 's essay in this stellar issue of @readliberties .

Curricular Trauma - Liberties

A number of years ago — sometime in the decade between the financial crash and the advent of Covid — I found myself at the hotel bar of the Modern Language Association’s annual conference (in...

libertiesjournal.com

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Paul Franz

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Out: Lawrence revival. In: Powys revival.

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@poetrygrifter EE had a nice example from Beth Nugent recently:

Hobart (SF/LD Books)

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“…as she empties a can of peas the color of olives into a pot.” Also, perplexed by this line, the author’s decision to compare the color of one food to another, why the necessity to compare the color of the peas to olives?!

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This is a good book.

Alice

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Actually I like Wes Anderson fine. “Minor artist” for me is a compliment. Most working directors are either skillful or unskillful generics. Also: my best film stuff is the stuff that doesn’t arrive w a built-in cheering section: LA Confidential sucks.

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When my father stopped drinking alcohol and offered me an alcohol-free beer, I declined with a visible show of repugnance. I regret this.

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To what did I aspire? To be a burr in the fur of time.

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Beautiful film. Love the shot of little half-moons of ice picked up by a horse's hooves and sent skating across its surface.

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[MCCABE & MRS. MILLER] Will a large enough American public accept American movies that are delicate and understated and searching—movies that don’t resolve all the feelings they touch, that don’t aim at leaving us satisfied, the way a three-ring circus satisfies? (1971)

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Keats or Lawrence. Toss-up.

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What is the best collection of letters? I finished Flaubert's today and consider me floored.

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A weekend read for those who missed it. On a new biography of James Salter, for @realclearbooks .

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For @realclearbooks I wrote about a new biography of James Salter; with a response to @rossbarkan , John Pistelli, and (indirectly) @borywrites on the plight of the male novelist, esp. when writing about sex.

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Separate the artist from the art? Sure--I despise bad art by good people.

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That's my guy.

Art of Darkness podcast

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"He would drink 40 Coca Colas a day"

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Also from this past year, for @AirMailWeekly I wrote about a new biography of James Ellroy that imparts one or two facts, but adds little to the delirious lyricism and scandalous self-exposure of the subject's own experiments in autobiography:

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@providenceluvr Sorry.

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For the evening crowd: putting the ἀποκάλυψις back in post-apocalyptic. For @hobartpulp 👇

Anabasis by Paul Franz

Ask any one of us. So many dark days we had spent under the trees, never wandering, never lost, yet lacking everything except that one direction that made our going possible. Ask anyone. Some nights...

www.hobartpulp.com

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On D. H. Lawrence's style, or rather on his relationship to words, and his apparent indifference to the materiality of the text, which (like the body) is but "a flame on the wick of the soul":

"My Hand as It So Cleverly Writes These Words": D. H. Lawrence, Literary Impressionism, and the...

This review-essay critically examines Michael Fried's 2018 study What Was Literary Impressionism (Harvard) and asks what light it can shed on the study of D. H. Lawrence, whom Fried considers...

www.academia.edu

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sympathetic opposition

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why would you want to be part of a literary community the whole point of literature is that you're not limited to the people who are alive

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I have a poem in the new @preludemag :

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Still can't stand listening to my own voice in it, but glad to come across again this great video essay @tankmagazine put together from my essay on 12 Monkeys.

Paul Franz

Paul Franz reads his piece from the spring Education issue on Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys.

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@JacobAShell Getting flashbacks to the old Penguin Moby-Dick with this painting on the cover.

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Perceptive, combative, not infrequently hilarious. Terrific piece by @blejksmith on Raymond Geuss.

An Illiberal Life - American Affairs Journal

Against what he sees as the pallid abstractions of Anglo-American political philosophy, Geuss presents himself as a champion of a more skeptical, historically informed way of thinking about politics....

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@spiritedcretin @DylanoA4 @AnaKrivolapova @EvaNewcastle @bradkelly @SamBuntz @up_an_octave @MichaelShindler @TomWill72550626 @AdemLuz @moonandmouth

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First, this is utterly splendid. Second, they just don't introduce 'em like they used to: "Mailer's career is studded with literary success and stained with matrimonial failure" [sic]! @amicusadastra

Marshall McLuhan 1968 - The Summer Way with Norman Mailer

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 1968The Summer WayModerator: Ken FoleyHost: Paul SolesMarshall McLuhan debates Norman Mailer (American writer)Concepts disc...

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In the future, aesthetic judgments will have a discovery phase.

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If person X has already been driven out of public life (justly or unjustly), the impulse to further hound that person out of whatever marginal form of remunerative work they have now found is debased, mob behavior.

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Another icymi from the past year -- for @hedgehogreview , in which I express ambivalence about Jonathan Lear's glorification of "mourning" as the gateway to the highest human excellences and make a case for disdain as a superior antidote to despair.

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I didn't much like the book, but appreciated Auster's esteem for Stephen Crane: @thenation @booksandthearts . RIP

Stephen Crane’s Lifetime of Mystery

His visceral fiction and journalism might be best understood as a literature of pure immediacy.

www.thenation.com

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The blood-dimmed tide is loosed.

Disclose.tv

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NEW - Blood-covered horses run loose through London.

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@TheAnnaGat Granted--but it also feels like a weaker retread of this one, by Degas:

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@MrHWM Former is like going to the gym and using a forklift.

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The NYT obituary writer is named "Clay Risen"?

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White-tablecloth restaurant, two martinis before the first plate arrives, a hefty but not exorbitant bill that one pays as a tribute to one's own lordliness--what else do you need?

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