How I ate certain of my books
Over at the AV Club this week, Clayton Purdom tells the tale of Jamie Loftus, who’s eating Infinite Jest. Let me be more specific: he tells the tale of comedian and self-described “freak bitch [with]… Read more »
The Art of the Novella Challenge 50: The Lemoine Affair
Title: The Lemoine Affair Author: Marcel Proust First published: 1904-8 Page count: 100 First line: In one of the last months of the year 1907, at one of those “routs”… Read more »
This week in 1913: Swann’s Way is published, Georg Trakl gives a bad reading of a fantastic work
Just before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth century’s most exciting year . . . It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the… Read more »
Proust’s first poem, and manly mockery
As 2013 is the 100th anniversary of Swann’s Way, there’s a little Proust mania in the air. The Morgan Library is hosting an exhibit with Proust’s early drafts, Anne Carson… Read more »