James Joyce’s experimental masterwork Finnegans Wake
Myself, I’ve never been able to actually finish reading Joyce’s grand gesture to introspective modernism … but Jason Novak’s 7-panel cartoon, which deftly illustrates a symbolic anecdote from the book, will help me fake it at parties.
World BEYOND War: A New Podcast
Lost Music: Exploring Literary Opera 
A couple of really great finds for you today … My temperature was no better than lukewarm as I pondered the cover of a book called The Cool School: Writing from America’s Hip Underground, a Library of America anthology edited by Glenn O’Brien. The Library of America isn’t known for edginess, and books with the …
Between June 2009 and December 2010, Michael Norris explored Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, also known as Remembrance of Things Past, in these pages. Here, with original artwork by David Richardson, is the entire sequence. Marcel Proust: Beyond the Madeleines June 16, 2009 Pondering Proust II September 8, 2009 Pondering Proust III: Guermantes …
This is Willets Point, a sprawling center for automobile salvage located just west of Flushing Meadows Park in New York City, a place of amazing squalid beauty. CitiField, where the Mets play baseball, is visible just beyond the scrap yards. Willets Point, one of the last remaining vestiges of the Great Gatsby’s Valley of Ashes, …
It’s a new year and a new universe (because, let’s face it, the universe is always changing, and always new) … and I’m now writing with a new name. So I thought I’d reach for something familiar and easy and tell you briefly about what I’ve been reading and enjoying lately. Here are three things …
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I like these side bars, Levi.
I like these side bars, Levi.
I like the illustrations also.
Now, if he can just do about 5000 more to cover the whole book…….