- Klaus Scherübel’s exhibition “Mallarmé, Het Boek” at S.M.A.K., Ghent (through December 6) explores Mallarmé’s book to come. (See here and here.)
- At the Drawing Center this Saturday at 4pm, Cynthia Carlson, Matt Keegan, and Barbara Zucker will be reading from Raymond Roussel’s Impressions of Africa (as well as T. S. Eliot) as part of the exhibition “Ree Morton: At the Still Point of the Turning World”.
- Jessica Burstein on Mina Loy at the Poetry Foundation.
- New books from Love Among the Ruins are worth picking up.
- Stephen Mitchelmore and Richard Crary on Gabriel Josipovici’s Everything Passes (previously).
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- A good interview with Alasdair Gray by Ari Messer at The Rumpus. (More here.)
- Full Tilt, a journal of East-Asian poetry, translation and the arts, from Steve Bradbury.
- The life of taxidermist Walter Potter, at the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Tan Lin at PennSound; also “Disco as Operating System, Part One”.
- Suzanne Jill Levine interviewed at Words Without Borders (that name still doesn’t make sense at a very basic level).
- Tom McCarthy at Everyday Genius
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- Art by Dino Buzzati: here, here.
- (Belatedly) The Robert Walser Society of Western Massachusetts.
- Fiona MacCarthy returns to Eric Gill at the Guardian.
- A show inspired by Raymond Roussel at Yvon Lambert Paris.
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- Audio of Dara Wier reading at Pennsound.
- Andrew Seal on books changing one’s life, with specific reference to Infinite Jest.
- Richard Minsky has images of a couple of astonishing book covers by an unknown American designer in the 1880s.
- New Directions has started a blog based on James Laughlin’s The Way It Wasn’t.
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- Sonesh Chainani at the Neglected Books page.
- R.I.P. Raymond Federman; see also Charles Bernstein.
- The new issue of Five Dials from Hamish Hamilton has Ali Smith on Céline & Julie Go Boating and Geoff Dyer, among others.
- Steven Fama on Robert Kelly’s Cities.
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- Two new poems by Brett Fletcher Lauer at RealPoetik.
- J. C. Hallman on permissions nightmares at the Tin House blog.
- Matthew Zapruder on form in poetry in the L.A. Times.
- An old post by Lee Rourke on Ann Quin at The Guardian.
- And the video for “The Sea Is a Good Place to Think of the Future” by Los Campesinos!, ostensibly about the life & death of Ann Quin:
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- Interviews with Ross McElwee and Werner Herzog (among many others) in Vice‘s film issue.
- And an interview with Alastair Brotchie of Atlas Press about Norman Douglas (with reference to Fr. Rolfe).
- Martin Riker of the Dalkey Archive is interviewed at Poets & Writers.
- A translation of Carl Seelig’s Wandering with Robert Walser by Bob Skinner (via Golden Rule Jones).
- Finnegans Wake links from Ron Silliman.
- Matt Sullivan’s oboe-playing on YouTube.
- Rousseliana: Andrew Hugill’s online version of New Impressions of Africa; William Clark’s introduction, “A Lovely Curiosity”; Alan Ramón Simon’s Raymond Roussel’s Self Help Notes (A Commentary On Bob Perelman’s “Chronic Meanings”) in Glossator.
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- William Gass on the St. Louis Arch.
- Joshua Beckman reviews Gabriel Josipovici’s After & Making Mistakes at the Jewish Chronicle (via This Space).
- Joel Brouwer on poetry books with conceptual hooks at Harriet.
- Georges Perec’s “Statement of Intent” (from Thoughts of Sorts) at the David R. Godine blog.
- Marion Boyars goes under.
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- At the Film Society of Lincoln Center, a tribute to Julio Cortázar as part of the Latinbeat Film Festival. (See also: Julio Cortázar reading Chapter 7 of Rayuela.)
- The opening sequence of Marguerite Duras’s India Song at A Small Gleaning Factory.
- A 1988 correction in the New York Times (cited in John Tierney’s piece on polar fraudulence).
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- Matthew Herbert’s One Pig project.
- David George Pearson’s collection of Penguin book designs on Flickr.
- Stacy Szymaszek on PennSound.
- Malcolm Bradbury interviews William Gaddis (from 1986) at the British Library’s audio archive.
- Nic Rapold on adapting Coetzee’s Disgrace for the screen.