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  • Il Velino on the decline of Alberto Moravia.
  • Salvador Dalí’s Impressions de la haute Mongolie – hommage á Raymond Roussel at Ubu.
  • The New York Times Book Review’s groan-inducingly bad blog does have an interesting selection of music from Geoff Dyer.

    • various things

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    on Tuesday 6 March 2007
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    • Scottish indie label Chemikal Underground present Ballads of the Book, a collection with lyrics by Scottish poets, including Alasdair Gray (who also provides the artwork) & Edwin Morgan.
    • Late notice: there’s a Circumference-sponsored reading of Slovenian poetry tonight at Columbia. Slovenian and American poets Aleš Debeljak, Brain Henry, Tomaž Šalamun, and Andrew Zawacki will read their poetry and discuss translation. Tuesday 6 March, 7:30 pm, Columbia University School of the Arts, 2960 Broadway at 116th St, Dodge Hall, Room 413.
    • Also: there’s a Circumference 5 launch reading in Amherst this Sunday. Jonathan Bolton reads Czech, Elliott Colla reads Arabic, Krista Ingebretson reads Spanish, and Dara Wier reads some of her homophonic translations. Sunday 11 March, 3 pm, Jones Library, 43 Amity St, 3rd floor, Amherst, Massachusetts.
    • Scanned issues of German magazine Simplicissimus (1896–1944) in PDF format, noted here.

    book design

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    on Thursday 22 February 2007
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  • Two arguments on book design: William Morris’s “The Ideal Book” (at the very impressive William Morris Internet Archive) and Michael Russem’s “The Failure of Fine Printing” (in the February 2007 Caxtonian; attendant Typophile thread here).
  • Sven Birkerts revisits the Internet.

    • various things for monday

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    on Tuesday 6 February 2007
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  • An interview with Abelardo Morell at Lens Culture.
  • Mark K-Punk on The Fall: Part 1 and Part 2.
  • Stephen Mitchelmore on Blanchot and books.
  • There’s an interesting-sounding recording of Jackson Mac Low & Anne Tardos.

    • letterpress / john ashbery

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    on Friday 2 February 2007
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  • A page on the Firefly Press at Elsa Dorfman’s webpage; this film by Chuck Kraemer is fantastic.
  • John Ashbery’s “They Are Still Rather Lovely” at the Boston Review.

    • visual poetry / peter greenaway / hollis frampton

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    on Wednesday 31 January 2007
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  • Otoliths is a web-based magazine of visual poetry.
  • Peter Greenaway’s Four American Composers at Ubu.
  • Hollis Frampton’s Zorn’s Lemma at Ubu; (nostalgia) is here, though in painfully low quality and embedded in the page.

    • circumference issue 5 / bernhard reading

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    on Friday 26 January 2007
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    circumference 5 cover

    Circumference issue 5 is out and in better book stores, if not online. It is a fine issue, I think. Launch party is Thursday, 8 February at 7 pm at the Swiss Institute (495 Broadway, NYC); there will be readings of poetry translated from Spanish, Arabic, and Romanian by Emily Moore, Wendy Walker, and Matthew Zapruder.

    ALSO in reading news: Jonathan Taylor has organized a Thomas Bernhard-themed reading at KGB (85 E. 4th St., NYC) for 7pm on the 18th of February. Readers to be Wayne Koestenbaum, Rhonda Lieberman, Ben Marcus, Geoffrey O’Brien, and Dale Peck.

    various things

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    on Tuesday 12 December 2006
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  • A Flickr set by Golden Rule Jones of photos related to Robert Walser, including manuscript pages in microscript.
  • And Pierre Joris has Artaud’s notebooks.
  • For good measure, an interview with lovable old Thomas Bernhard.

    • various things, various things

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    on Wednesday 6 December 2006
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  • Golden Rule Jones is translating Carl Seelig’s Wanderungen mit Robert Walser, which sounds fantastic.
  • More poetry at the Marquise Dance Hall: Thursday the 14th of December at 7 pm, C.S. Carrier, Christina Clark, Paul Killebrew, and Julien Poirier from Ugly Duckling Presse will read from their poetry.

    • the tunnel

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    on Monday 4 December 2006
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  • A decent essay by Stephen Schenkenberg on the design of William Gass’s The Tunnel. References this piece by Gass on the book’s design.