Archive for November, 2006

Pangs for other places (abetted by Karen Olsson)

November 29, 2006

Man. I have gone through my periods of disenchantment with New York City, no doubt about that, but the visceral revulsion I’ve started to feel on waking and moving through my days is something new. Thus the quiet. Also, the redesign (a million thanks, Max), which hasn’t proved as motivational as I’d hoped. I know it’s not just where I . . .

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November 29, 2006

In the late poetry of Mark Strand, “The self is not unknowable and jettisoned, but unknowable and utterly present, which is worse.”

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November 29, 2006

Am I biased? Or is The High Hat one of few consistently engaging webzines? The current issue, published 11/14, is a pre-death homage to Robert Altman.

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November 29, 2006

Gore Vidal heralds the demise of hands-on editors, blaming them for the reign of “near- illiterates, like F. Scott Fitzgerald.” (Vidal has hated on Fitzgerald for years.)

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November 29, 2006

“Kingsley and Martin Amis once had a good row about the word ‘dilapidated.’”

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