I just uploaded two older comics to the webcomics part of the site:
“Elegy for G.S.”: my tribute to Gilbert Sorrentino in the form of a mostly imageless text collage.
“Clouds”: the only completed page of my project to adapt Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pecuchet.
I don’t believe the latter has been seen by anyone except a few close [...]
November 16th, 2007
Categories: Comics
New Old Comics: Sorrentino and Flaubert
March 23rd, 2007
Categories: Literature
Last words on Sorrentino
Excerpts from Gilbert Sorrentino’s last novel “The Abyss of Human Illusion” in Golden Handcuffs Review.
Christopher Sorrentino’s afterword to same about his father’s last days.
I’ll assume we will see the whole novel published in the near future.
August 21st, 2006
Categories: Comics
Elegy for GS
An extra dose of posting today.
Scott Esposito’s latest Quarterly Conversation is up at his site, including an roundtable on Haruki Murakami, an interview with Zak Smith (of the drawing for each page of Gravity’s Rainbow fame), and a mostly pictureless comic I did as an elegy for recently deceased author Gilbert Sorrentino, Elegy for G.S. [...]
June 5th, 2006
Categories: Literature
A Strange Commonplace
A Strange Commonplace by Gilbert Sorrentino. Coffee House Press, 2006.
I began my review of Gilbert Sorrentino’s 2002 novel Little Casino, noting the growing sense of similarity among his works as I read more and more of them even as they also consistently varied in form. With this, his last novel, Sorrentino continues his work of [...]
May 21st, 2006
Categories: Literature
Gilbert Sorrentino r.i.p.
Just got word from Ted at Dalkey Archive. Gilbert Sorrentino died on Thursday, apparently from cancer. Dalkey Archive has a press release up here. I haven’t gotten around to writing up his most recent release A Strange Commonplace, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. You can see a bunch of my old posts and [...]
April 3rd, 2006
Odds and Ends
Blogging has been, will be light for a bit, as I have a few projects on my plate. Here are a few links of interest (I hope):
1. If I haven’t mentioned it before Read Yourself Raw is a great site particularly for its round up of interesting things from the latest Previews solicitations. Here’s the [...]
April 24th, 2005
Categories: Literature
Lannan Readings by Sorrentino
Gilbert Sorrentino was on Bookworm, the radio show, last Thursday reading from and discussing his latest Lunar Follies. You can listen to it online here. You can also here the audio from his last visit to Bookworm in November 2004 here. Both are worth the time.
April 12th, 2005
Categories: Literature
Sorrentino Conversation
This is from a conversation with Gilbert Sorrentino in November 2004 archived as streaming audio at the Lannan Foundation site. It’s worth listening to, he’s an intelligent and funny guy.
In one section that really jumped out to me, Sorrentino expresses something that has always bothered me: the idea that a character, during the writing process, [...]
November 1st, 2004
Categories: Literature
“Little Casino” by Sorrentino
Sorrentino, Gilbert. Little Casino. Coffee House Press, 2002.
In a previous Sorrentino review (See here (off site)) I mentioned the difference in his works. The more I read though the more I begin to see the underlying sameness in content. The novels are consistently different in form, but beneath the ever changing structure lies a certain [...]
October 4th, 2004
Categories: Constraint, Literature
“Aberration of Starlight” by Sorrentino
Sorrentino, Gilbert. Aberration of Starlight (1980). Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive, 1993.
For readers of this blog, it should already be evident that I think highly of Gilbert Sorrentino. I’ve been reading a lot of him lately, and it’s been a rewarding and enjoyable experience. While certain themes and motifs are becoming more evident across his work, [...]