September 2012
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Dear Television joins LARB!
Dear Television is Jane Hu, Lili Loofbourow, and Phillip Maciak. We will be writing epistolary criticism about TV. If Clarissa Harlowe were writing about Girls — and she kind of is, isn’t she? — this is what that would be like. Abridged. This season, we’ll be corresponding about FOX’s New Girl and The Mindy Project from our new home at the LARB. Join us!
‘New Girl’ and...
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Radar LARB
Ship Write by Geoff Dyer: “Isolated for one night in a boat overlooking the Thames, Dyer explores representations of reality through the lens of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.”
Why we don’t understand Kafka: “‘Impatience led to our expulsion from paradise’, wrote Kafka in one of his aphorisms, ‘and impatience stops us returning.’ The besetting sin...
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#OccupyGaddis Ends
So fall begins as Gaddis ends, with Lee Konstantinou wrapping up our #OccupyGaddis summer. Special thanks to Lee, Sonia Johnson and Joseph Tabbi for their contributions to the LARB blog, and to everyone who read along, tweeted, blogged, and commented.
Something weird happens at the end of William Gaddis’s J R. A few weird things, actually, connected to Doctor (aka Coach) Vogel. What we might...
LOGLINES (A Love Story)*
A lawyer meets a young woman with money problems.
A lawyer falls for his sultry client.
A lawyer falls under the spell of his fiancee’s cousin.
A woman marries despite doubts about her husband-to-be.
Marriage slowly erodes an independent woman’s resolve.
A drifter awakens desire in a lawyer’s neglected wife.
A middle-aged couple’s pent-up frustrations surface.
A woman plots to...
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The Posthuman Imagination (part 2)
by Joseph Tabbi
I’d promised to try and tease out some of the biographical elements William Gaddis wove into J R. I’ll also try to indicate how Gaddis’s resistance to biography is not (as in his literary hero, T.S. Eliot) a repression of personality - far from it. Rather, what we can observe of the many, many examples of biographical writing in Gaddis, is a transformation of the...
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