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The Arts

2019

  1. Movies in May []
  2. Witcher, Gundam, and Star Trek []
  3. Ozu, Sekiro, LeGuin []
  4. Spring is here reading []
  5. Some March reading []
  6. Rambling from February []

2018

  1. Art & Arcana and Chalk []

2011

  1. Deborah Turbeville: Past Imperfect []

2010

  1. Enso and Haiga []
  2. Ozu Inspiration []
  3. Renoir on Plagiarism []
  4. Bordwell on Show and Tell []
  5. Masereel's Leaps in Time []
  6. Philadelphia Museum of Art Visit []
  7. DC Trip, Museum Highlights []
  8. from The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony []
  9. David Markson RIP []
  10. Haiku and Haiga []

2009

  1. Notes on Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema []
  2. Running Away by Toussaint []
  3. Butor on Detective Stories []
  4. Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey []
  5. On Criticism by Noel Carroll []

2008

  1. The Infinitesimal Novel []
  2. Branigan on Point of View []
  3. An Autumn Afternoon []
  4. Quotidian mystery []
  5. "My" poems []
  6. Helen Lundeberg []
  7. Series and Repetition []
  8. Toussaint at the Quarterly Conversation []
  9. Rereading Kawabata []
  10. Love in the Western World []
  11. Wordless Novels and At a Crossroads []
  12. Dichotomies of Life/Art []
  13. Felix Vallotton in High Contrast []
  14. Making Meaning Notes []
  15. Flaubert on Conclusions []
  16. Invisible Style []
  17. Robbe-Grillet on plot and surrealism []
  18. Rohmer's Style []
  19. Quotes on Noir []
  20. Godard and constructive editing []
  21. Floating Weeds []
  22. Film Reviewing Film Criticism []

2007

  1. Poetry as Unity []
  2. Milch on Fiction []
  3. Butor on Flaubert []
  4. Throbbing Pulse []
  5. Kundera on Theme Words []
  6. The Last Novel by David Markson []
  7. David Markson: A Bibliography []
  8. David Markson: An Introduction []
  9. Themerson Review at TQC []

2006

  1. The Mystery of the Sardine []
  2. The Mezzanine []
  3. Sound of the Mountain []
  4. A Strange Commonplace []
  5. Bouvard and Pecuchet Review []

2005

  1. NYC Trip, Art and Comics []
  2. Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land by John Crowley []
  3. Mathews Brooklyn Rail Interview []
  4. Paul Metcalf Interview []
  5. Doug Nufer Interview []
  6. Genoa by Paul Metcalf []
  7. Exercises in Style []
  8. Never Again by Doug Nufer []
  9. Negativeland by Doug Nufer []
  10. Going Down by David Markson []
  11. My Life in CIA by Harry Mathews []
  12. Film Noir Reader []
  13. Queneau Quotes on Novel Structure []
  14. Sorrentino Conversation []
  15. Kiss Me Deadly []
  16. Panorama of American Film Noir (1941-1953) []
  17. Pierrot Mon Ami by Raymond Queneau []
  18. Quotes: Duchamp, Poe, Borges, James []
  19. Agape Agape by William Gaddis []
  20. Interview with Queneau []
  21. Tom Harris and Stefan Themerson []
  22. Trent's Last Case []

2004

  1. Corey on D&D and Writing []
  2. New Impressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel []
  3. My Best of 2004 []
  4. Metal Machine Music []
  5. The Novel Encyclopedia []
  6. Enstrangement, Metafiction, and Constraint []
  7. The Lost Scrapbook by Evan Dara []
  8. "Little Casino" by Sorrentino []
  9. My Paris by Gail Scott []
  10. Eunoia by Christian Bok []
  11. "Aberration of Starlight" by Sorrentino []
  12. Duchamp's Letters []
  13. "The Moon In Its Flight" by Sorrentino []
  14. Mark Tansey []
  15. La Television by Toussaint []
  16. "Crystal Vision" by Sorrentino []
  17. "Under the Shadow" by Sorrentino []
  18. The Book of Batchelors by Philip Terry []
  19. Sorrentino Interview []
  20. Harry Mathews Exhibit []
  21. "Gold Fools" by Sorrentino []
  22. Composition No. 1 by Marc Saporta []
  23. Mathews Quote []
  24. 99: The New Meaning by Walter Abish []
  25. Quote: Hemingway []
  26. Mathews on Translation []
  27. Queneau in re Inspiration []
  28. Quote: Calvino []
  29. Roussel's Method []
  30. Leiris on Roussel []
  31. Quotes from Cigarettes []
  32. Cigarettes by Harry Mathews []
  33. Rohmer and Permutations []
  34. Mathews Interview Quotes []
  35. The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium []
  36. Quote: Originality []