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Read (And Not Read) in 2011
[Our West Coast correspondent A King at Night weighs in on the books he read---and didn't read---in 2011. Where they fit, I've linked book titles to my own reviews, or Noquar's, our Brooklyn...
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I Riff–Again–on William Gaddis’s Enormous Novel JR (This Time After Finishing...
1. Let me point those of you who may care to my first riff on William Gaddis’s J R, which I wrote about half way into the book, and which will likely provide more context than I’m prepared to offer...
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A Riff on William Gaddis’s The Recognitions
1. I finished reading William Gaddis’s enormous opus The Recognitions a few days ago. I made a decent first attempt at the book in the summer of 2009, but wound up distracted not quite half way...
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Occupy Gaddis (A William Gaddis Resource Page)
Why Occupy Gaddis? The Gaddis Annotations is, like, the source Biblioklept reviews J R (part 1) Biblioklept reviews J R (part 2) “Trickle-Up Economics: JR Goes to Washington” (1987 sequel to J R)...
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Some Annotations on the First Sentence of William Gaddis’s Last Novel, Agapē...
1. Let’s start with the what: Agapē Agape is the last novel by William Gaddis, that underread titan who gave us The Recognitions and J R. Agapē Agape was published in 2002, four years after Gaddis’s...
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William Gaddis’s Zebra Skin
From Matthew Erickson’s article “Mysterious Skin: The Realia of William Gaddis” at The Paris Review. From the article: What the researcher, or even the dilettante, might want to know is how an...
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“Mothers”— William Gaddis
“Mothers” by William Gaddis When Ralph Waldo Emerson informed—or rather, perhaps, warned us—that we are what our mothers made us, we might dismiss it as received opinion and let it go at that, like the...
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“Mothers”— William Gaddis
“Mothers” by William Gaddis When Ralph Waldo Emerson informed—or rather, perhaps, warned us—that we are what our mothers made us, we might dismiss it as received opinion and let it go at that, like the...
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“Mothers” by William Gaddis When Ralph Waldo Emerson informed—or rather, perhaps, warned us—that we are what our mothers made us, we might dismiss it as received opinion and let it go at that, like the...
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