- 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.
Category Archives: noted
noted
- Nic Rapold on creepy kids in the movies.
- Charles Bernstein on Charles Olson’s “The Kingfishers” in Sibila (includes link to audio of Olson reading the poem).
- John Crowley points out Nabokov reading Part 2, Chapter 35 of Lolita.
- Audio of David Foster Wallace at Wisconsin Public Radio
- Helen Vendler on Wallace Stevens.
- Sharon Butler gives a quick review to Chris Bertholf’s show in Hudson.
noted
- Louis Adamic’s article on the founding of Black Mountain College can be found in the April 1936 issue of Harper’s (w/ rebuttal by Bernard DeVoto in the same issue).
- Portraits of students and faculty at Black Mountain College by Hazel Larsen Archer (at the Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center).
- At the California Literary Review, an interview with Paul Collins on, among other things, the past, present, and future relationship of publishing and the marketplace.
- Marjorie Welish on “In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976” at the New York Observer.
noted
- J. M. Coetzee on mathematics and poetry at Notices of the AMS, recommending especially the concrete poetry of Carl Andre and Emmett Williams. (See also Coetzee reading from Summertime at the NYRB podcast.)
- László Krasznahorkai has a short story in The Guardian.
- At Jacket, Douglas Piccinnini on John Ashbery in Paris with special reference to Locus Solus; also see Declan Spring on the rediscovery of Alvin Levin.
- Tom La Farge reviews The noulipian Analects at EXPLORINGfictions with reference to Duchamp and Roussel.
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alva noto, “unitxt”
noted
- William Poundstone’s Ann Coulter: Human Document (via The Dizzies).
- Jennifer Gough-Cooper and Jacques Caumont’s ephemerides of Marcel Duchamp (via rodcorp).
- 910 Mb of David Foster Wallace-related audio – probably won’t last.
- Jonathan Franzen on the Midwest (quoted at Andrew Seal’s Blographia Literaria); cf. Diane Johnson on Edmund White.
noted
- Walter Cronkite interviewed Gertrude Stein in 1935.
- Andy Warhol designed books for New Directions (including Firbank & Fr. Rolfe).
- James Souttar on the relationship between scripts and technology (in particular, the problem of Arabic typesetting) at Limited Language.
- John Dewey stands behind David Foster Wallace’s “Incarnations of Burned Children”.
- A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible; or, Select Passages in the Old and New Testaments at Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities.
felipe alfau interviewed by ilan stavans
- Ilan Stavans’s 1993 interview with Felipe Alfau has been dramatized by Amber Reed (as part of the Bring a Weasel and a Pint of Your Own Blood adaptations of Locos), on YouTube; embedding unfortunately disabled.
- And a William Gass review in Harper’s.
noted
- Garth Risk Hallberg on Joseph McElroy’s Women and Men at the LA Times book blog (note also the interview with John O’Brien of the Dalkey Archive there).
- Jacob Silverman on the new ludditism in literature at the VQR blog.
- Plays based on Felipe Alfau’s Locos, very soon in New York.
- Robert Kelly’s “Letter to Thomas Bernhard” at Cerise Press.
- An online variorum edition of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s poetry from the University of Maryland.
cleaning up after the times
The New York Times has an article by John Noble Wilford on Sequoyah, the inventor of the Cherokee script today; in the online version, the Cherokee text that appears in the article – maybe the first Cherokee to have appeared in the Times? – seems to have fallen out. It should look like this:
By some accounts, Sequoyah was a kind of Professor Henry Higgins who enlisted family members who had sharper ears for discriminating distinct sounds. They helped him divide spoken words into their constituent sounds, and to each sound he assigned a symbol drawn mostly, it is said, from an English spelling book. In the script, for example, Sequoyah’s own name reads:
ᏎᏉᏯThe 15 characters on the cave wall —
Ꭱ,Ꭴ,Ꮇ,Ꮨ,Ꮹ
Ꮰ,Ꮋ,Ꮴ,Ꭵ,Ꮊ,Ꮶ,Ꭹ,Ꮗ,Ꮀ,Ꮻ— do not spell any words. “They read almost like ABCs,” Dr. Tankersley said in the magazine article, suggesting that someone taught by Sequoyah may have been “practicing drawing them out just as we would practice our ABCs.”
(You’ll probably need Plantagenet Cherokee (standard with OS X; or see here) active to see the Cherokee text. The Times also seems to have used a Roman “G” rather than “Ꮹ,” Cherokee letter wa. Sequoyah’s invention of the Cherokee script, the article notes, might be “the only known instance of an individual’s single-handedly creating an entirely new system of writing.”)