Michel Butor is still not dead and was in New York on Friday. He looks like Santa Claus:
(in this picture, his wife is explaining something to him.) Will attempt, with the help of his translators, to get some of his poetry into print in English and possibly an interview – despite his old website, he evidently hates the Internet, good man.
Also, there’s an article in the New York Times about Brian O’Doherty, which mentions, in passing, Aspen 5–6 which he put together, and which seems like, in retrospect, maybe the best single (well, double, but) issue of a magazine ever.
Mobile was made for the internet
whoa. i saw butor and his wife in paris at the levinas conference. i recognize the wife especially very clearly. this photo is causing me very extreme deja vu indeed though i suppose the coincidence is not surprising.
congratulations on soon publishing some of his poems.