“Gertrude Stein was a great reader. In novels, Henry James’s for instance, characters talk, and in their nuances lurk the subtlest intricacies of the author’s web. Imagine a text of a novel, say James’s The Sacred Fount (1901), from which everything has been extracted except the dialogue.”

(Guy Davenport, “Late Gertrude,” p. 189 in The Hunter Gracchus)

Following Guy Davenport’s suggestion, here’s a version of Henry James’s The Sacred Fount from which everything has been extracted except the dialogue. A print-on-demand version can be purchased at Lulu; or, download a PDF version for free.

• Buzz Poole, I Like to Keep My Troubles on the Windy Side of Things
• Jerzy Kosinski, Steps
• Elizabeth Smart, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
• Diane Williams, It Was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature
• Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life, trans. Johnny Lorenz
• Clarice Lispector, Água Viva, trans. Stefan Tobler
• Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G. H., trans. Idra Novey
• Enrique Vila-Matas, Dublinesque, trans. Anne McLean & Rosalind Harvey

Films

• Tiny Furniture, dir. Lena Dunham
• The Fly, dir. David Cronenberg

Exhibits

• Whitney Biennial
• “Frank Stella: Black, Aluminum, Copper Paintings,” L & M Arts

• Harry Mathews, The Conversions
• James McCourt, Wayfaring at Waverly in Silver Lake
• Teju Cole, Open City
• Eugene Lim, Fog & Car
• Robert Kelly, Kill the Messenger
• Robert Walser, The Walk, trans. Christopher Middleton & Susan Bernofsky

Films

• Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope), directed by Nanni Moretti
• Ruggles of Red Gap, dir. Leo McCarey
• The Two Mrs. Carrolls, dir. Peter Godfrey
• Marguerite de la nuit, dir. Claude Autant-Lara
• The Sound of My Voice, dir. Zal Batmanglij

Exhibits

• “Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art,” Met
• “Naked before the Camera,” Met

• Alan Singer, The Inquisitor’s Tongue
• Massimo Bontempelli, Separations: Two Novels of Mothers and Children, trans. Estelle Gilson
• João Fernandes, François Piron, Patrick Besnier & Annie Le Brun, eds., Locus Solus. Impressions of Raymond Roussel

Films

• L’amour à mort (Love unto Death), directed by Alain Resnais
• Melancholia, dir. Lars von Trier
• Another Earth, dir. Mike Cahill
• A Dangerous Method, dir. David Cronenberg
• Giulietta degli spiriti (Juliet of the Spirits), dir. Federico Fellini

Exhibits

• “Beryl Korot: Selected Video Works: 1977 to Present,” Bitforms
• “Michelangelo Pistoletto: Lavoro,” Luhring Augustine
• “Speakers’ Corners,” Eyebeam
• “Mamiko Otsubo: Idea/Equivalent,” Horton Gallery
• “John Evans: 1984,” Pavel Zoubok
• “Guðjón Ketilsson: Extensions of the Head: sculptures & works on paper,” Luise Ross
• “Iran do Espírito Santo,” Sean Kelly Gallery

• Tommaso Landolfi, Gogol’s Wife & Other Stories, trans. Raymond Rosenthal, John Longrigg & Wayland Young
• Tommaso Landolfi, Words in Commotion, and Other Stories, trans. Kathrine Jason
• Tommaso Landolfi, An Autumn Story, trans. Joachim Neugroschel
• Rachel Levitsky, Under the Sun
• Harry Thurston, A Ship Portrait
• Anne Carson, Glass, Irony & God
• Edmund White, Jack Holmes & His Friend
• Siddhartha Deb, The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India
• Julio Cortázar, A Change of Light, and other stories
• Alison Knowles, Spoken Text
• Alison Knowles, Footnotes: collage journal 30 years

Films

• Meek’s Cutoff, directed by Kelly Reichardt
• Only Angels Have Wings, dir. Howard Hawks
• Götter der Pest (Gods of the Plague), dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• La vie est un roman (Life Is a Bed of Roses), dir. Alain Resnais
• On Approval, dir. Clive Brook
• La piel que habito (The Skin I Live In), dir. Pedro Almodóvar

Exhibits

• “Eugène Atget: Documents pour artistes,” MoMA
• “Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration,” MoMA
• “Print/Out,” MoMA
• “Millennium Magazines,” MoMA
• “Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan,” Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
• “Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” Met
• “Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video,” Met
• “Natalie Czech: ‘I have nothing to say. Only to show.’ ” Ludlow 38

• Deborah Eisenberg, All Around Atlantis
• Deborah Eisenberg, Twilight of the Superheroes
• Pierre Clastres, Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians, trans. Paul Auster
• Charles Olson, The Distances
• Graham Greene, Travels with My Aunt
• Joe Brainard, The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard, ed. Ron Padgett

Films

• Play Time, directed by Jacques Tati
• Minnie and Moskowitz, dir. John Cassavetes
• Tomatos Another Day, dir. James Sibley Watson
• Please Vote for Me, dir. Weijun Chen

Exhibits

• “Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition,” Met

• William Burroughs, Naked Lunch
• Janet Hobhouse, Dancing in the Dark
• Deborah Eisenberg, Transactions in a Foreign Currency
• Deborah Eisenberg, Under the 82nd Airborne

Films

• A Woman under the Influence, directed by John Cassavetes
• Wings, dir. William Wellman

Exhibits

• “Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art,” MoMA
• “The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde,” Met
• “Jean Debuffet: The Last Two Years,” Pace Gallery
• “From Iceland,” Luise Ross Gallery
• “Tom Friedman: New Work,” Luhring Augustine
• “Charles Burchfield: Landscapes 1916–1962,” D. C. Moore Gallery

• Anna Maria Ortese, A Music behind the Wall: Selected Stories, trans. Henry Martin
• William Burroughs, Junky
• Jack Green, Fire the Bastards!
• Jonathan Williams, A Palpable Elysium: Portraits of Genius and Solitude

Films

• Der Golem, Wie er in die Welt Kam (The Golem: How He Came Into the World), dir. Paul Wegener & Carl Boese
• The Shop around the Corner, dir. Ernst Lubitsch
• My Crasy Life, dir. Jean-Pierre Gorin
• Two Rode Together, dir. John Ford
• Time Limit, dir. Karl Malden

Exhibits

• “New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia,” Met

• Augusto Roa Bastos, Son of Man, trans. Rachel Caffyn
• LeRoy C. Breunig, ed., The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology
• Pierre Reverdy, Selected Poems, trans. Mary Ann Caws, Patricia Terry & John Ashbery
• William Goyen, The House of Breath

Films

• International House, directed by
• Poto and Cabengo, dir. Jean-Pierre Gorin
• Routine Pleasures, dir. Jean-Pierre Gorin
• Le Tempestaire, dir. Jean Epstein
• Autumn Fire, dir. Herman G. Weinberg
• La coquille et le clergyman, dir. Germaine Dulac
• Geography of the Body, dir. Willard Maas
• The Mechanics of Love, dir. Willard Maas & Ben Moore
• Visual Variations on Noguchi, dir. Marie Menken
• House of Cards, dir. Joseph Vogel
• The Potted Psalm, dir. Sidney Peterson & James Broughton
• The Cage, dir. Sidney Peterson
• Christmas U.S.A., dir. Gregory Markopoulos
• Adventures of Jimmy, dir. James Broughton
• Interim, dir. Stan Brakhage
• Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection, dir. Stan Brakhage
• The Way to Shadow Garden, dir. Stan Brakhage
• The Extraordinary Child, dir. Stan Brakhage
• Coogan’s Bluff, dir. Don Siegel
• The Fall of the House of Usher, dir. James Sibley Watson & Melville Webber
• Rebus-Film No. 1, dir. Paul Leni
• Pacific 231, dir. Jean Mitry
• Arrière saison, dir. Dimitri Kirsanoff

• Eric Baus, The To Sound
• William Everson, The Engendering Flood: Book One of Dust Shall Be the Serpent’s Food
• Julio Cortázar, Nicaraguan Sketches, trans. Kathleen Weaver
• Deb Olin Unferth, Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War
• Stephanie Young, Picture Palace
• David Shapiro, The Page-Turner
• John Gimlette, At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels through Paraguay
• Giorgio Manganelli, All the Errors, trans. Henry Martin
• Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

Films

• The Old Fashioned Way, directed by William Beaudine
• Island of Lost Souls, dir. Erle C. Kenton
• The Awful Truth, dir. Leo McCarey
• Poppy, dir. A. Edward Sutherland
• Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, dir. Rouben Mamoulian
• Million Dollar Legs, dir. Edward F. Kline
• If I Had a Million, dir. Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Taurog, Stephen Roberts, Norman Z. McLeod, James Cruze, William A. Seiter, H. Bruce Humberstone & Lothar Mendes
• Gabriel over the White House, dir. Gregory La Cava
• My Favorite Wife, dir. Garson Kanin
• The Devil-Doll, dir. Tod Browning
• Mad Love, dir. Karl Freund
• Vivacious Lady, dir. George Stevens
• Shadows, dir. John Cassavetes
• You’re Telling Me!, dir. Erle C. Kenton

Exhibits

• “Grisaille,” Luxembourg & Dayan
• “Late Medieval Panel Paintings: Methods, Materials, Meanings,” Richard L. Feigen & Co.