- The Dalkey Archive’s site has been redone, bringing some things to light: Evelyn Picon Garfield’s interview with Julio Cortázar, Anna Otten’s interview with Michel Butor, Frederic Tuten’s interview with Jerome Charyn.
- Ian Bracewell’s Walserings seems to be on show at QUAD in Derby.
- Various public appearances: I’m interviewing Bob Stein at Triple Canopy on February 20th as part of The Public School NYC; on March 24th, I’m speaking at the Center for Book Arts.
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- Susan Howe & David Grubbs’s Thiefth is online at PennSound.
- Audio recordings from former slaves at the Library of Congress
- The Brooklyn Rail is having a reading in honor of Gilbert Sorrentino on Saturday, February the 20th with Walter Abish & David Markson, among others.
- Also at the Brooklyn Rail: John Yau’s “The Difference between Jerry Saltz’s America and Mine”, a good examination of arts in New York in the past decade.
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- Audio of Weldon Kees, recorded in Berkeley in 1952, is available at the Poetry Foundation.
- An excerpt from the new Gilbert Sorrentino novel is up at the Brooklyn Rail.
- Douglas Messerli of Sun & Moon/Green Integer has a new blog, American Cultural Treasures.
- A short piece on Victorian collage that I wrote at Hotel St. George.
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- LACMA has been digitizing old catalogues, which are now online using the Internet Archive’s book presentation software.
- Warren Motte in conversation with Martin Riker at Words Without Borders.
- Michael Haneke’s Three Paths to the Lake, his 1976 film adaptation of an Ingeborg Bachmann short story, is showing tomorrow at 7:30 at Anthology Film Archives, part of a series of adaptations of Austrian writers put on by the Austrian Cultural Forum.
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- Hugh Kenner’s essays on computers in the Harper’s archive (subscription required): “Out my computer window: Travels in the land of BIX”, from November 1989 on how one used computer bulletin boards then; and “The wherefores of how-to”, from March 1984, on computer magazines and the do-it-yourself tradition.
- Worthy of close inspection – especially in the light of recent hubbub about the accuracy of Google’s scanning – is Kenner’s “The computerized Ulysses: Establishing the text Joyce intended” (April 1980), describing in loving detail the horrifically primitive computers used to generate the Gabler Edition.
- New York Earwicker Night is covered in El Pais.
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- James Wallenstein on the work of Geoff Dyer (with reference to John Berger) at the Boston Review; also, John Crowley on Nicholson Baker and Thomas Disch.
- “Endings: A Collection of Closing Sentences (of Otherwise Nonexistent Stories)”, a piece by Richard Kostelanetz that I remade using Processing, finally up at Hotel St. George.
- The Stan Brakhage interviews up at PennSound are really good.
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- A tribute to Jonathan Williams at Jacket.
- Various things I have written: some posts for if:book (1, 2, 3); a short post for the Hotel St. George blog on end-of-the-year lists; and, most interesting, an interview with Damion Searls at HSG.
- David R. Godine will be at the Grolier Club on January 13, part of a discussion entitled “Current Challenges to Fine Printing and Book Design.”
- There’s a tremendous amount of interesting audio at the Key West Literary Seminars audio archive page
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- An audio interview of Dick Higgins at Cal Arts in 1971 at the Internet Archive (via Ron Silliman).
- The introduction of Steven Moore’s The Novel: An Alternative History, Beginnings to 1600 is online at Continuum’s website in fantastically unwieldy format.
- Paul Collins on the history of Omni & futures that didn’t arrive.
man as industrial palace
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- A good piece at Design Observer (most interesting there in a long time, I think) by Martha Scotford about the publication and design of Ulysses. Most interesting slide: an advertisement in the Saturday Review of Literature where Random House explained “How to Enjoy James Joyce’s Great Novel Ulysses“.
- Three stories by Robert Walser, translated by Damion Searls, as part of Vice‘s fiction issue (there’s a lot of other worthwhile content there too). And it’s been noted elsewhere, but the Christine Burgin Gallery has information about the forthcoming English edition of Walser’s microscripts.
- Scott Bryan Wilson is publishing chapbooks under a familiar name.
- A new story by Gabriel Josipovici at Litro.