November 2012
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L. A. Review of Books Art: Ouethre! Ouethre! →
larbart:
Flannery O’Connor also produced artful linoleum cut cartoons. Dig this one from our triptych:
Caption: “Do you have any books the faculty doesn’t particularly recommend?”
It’s there (and here) to represent contributor Glen David Gold’s review of Escape Velocity by Charles Portis and…
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Media and expression: theses in tweetform by Nicholas Carr
Kafka’s Wound: A digital essay by Will Self
Rocket and Lightship: Meditations on life and letters by Adam Kirsch
The Neighborhood Effect: On William Julius Wilson and Urban Sociology by Marc Perry
Upper Middle Brow: The culture of the creative class by William Deresiewicz (see comments)
A Few Indignant Words for Professor...
L. A. Review of Books Art: "...Optimism as... →
larbart:
For the Panorama City of Antoine Wilson’s new book of that name I decided to go with a collage that includes detail from Picasso’s famous sketch of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza (1955). Inspired by what Wilson says below, I took Picasso’s Panza and set him out on his own, against the sun…
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The Eye by Alice Munro
The Semiautobiographers by Emily Cooke
A Piece of Writing to Commemorate the Release of Both Flesh and Not, David Foster Wallace’s New Book of Essays by Tom Dibblee
Rolling Jubilee: “OWS is going to start buying distressed debt (medical bills, student loans, etc.) in order to forgive it.”
Poets, Protesters, and Proletarians — Oddballs of the...
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L. A. Review of Books Art: Loss and Longing →
larbart:
Today’s triptych begins with Nathan Deuel’s review of Kevin Powers’ debut novel, The Yellow Birds. Take It From a Soldier: On Kevin Powers’s “Yellow Birds”
“(Powers)…spins literature out of atrocity; through his words, we not only see the war in Iraq firsthand, but are…
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