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Gabriel Blackwell
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The history that culminates in Flaubert is a history of increasing rigor, increasing control. Flaubert is the novelist who knows very well why he has included every scrap of what he has included, and every syllable. He terminates the evolution of the house of fiction from improvised shelters to enduring brick, set upon foundations of reinforced concrete, each stress and strain calculated. He
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Shadow Man: A Biography of Lewis Miles Archer
— published 2012 |
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Critique of Pure Reason
— published 2013 |
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Neverland
— published 2011 |
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The Natural Dissolution of Fleeting-Improvised Men
— expected publication 2013 |
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Unstuck Vol. 2
by Matt Williamson , Leanna Petronella, Collin Blair Grabarek — published 2012 — 3 editions |
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In Heaven, Everything is Fine: Fiction Inspired by David Lynch
by Cameron Pierce , Andrew Wayne Adams (Goodreads Author), Kirsten Alene (Goodreads Author) — published 2013 |
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When I discovered W.G. Sebald, I read Vertigo first, and then The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn. Minutes after I read the final page of The Rings of Saturn, I flipped it over and began again. I read that book six times, maybe seven. Still I av...
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The Natural Dissolution of Fleeting-Improvised-Men is fiendishly clever, endlessly byzantine, and brilliantly tongue-in-cheek-in-cheek. In this book and his equally clever Shadow Man: A Biography of Lewis Miles Archer, Blackwell has essentially in...
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It certainly didn't hurt that Lovecraft is wrapped up in this one, but that wasn't the only reason I ended up adoring this book. A falling apart version of a questing novel, the narratives buried in meta narratives compel reading of the text in th...
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“There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before. Not only man puts things in a row, but things belong in a row.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.”
― Jorge Luis Borges
― Jorge Luis Borges
“A work of art really is above all an adventure of the mind.”
― Eugène Ionesco
― Eugène Ionesco
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