2 essay books: A New Scar in Time & December to December forthcoming in 2028. https://nitter.cf/t.co/91uksSr8CH Editor: https://nitter.cf/t.co/i7LiWqHcAs
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Check out Eric Racher's epic review of Petrarch’s Canzoniere (Translated by A.M. Juster) @Eric_T_Racher socratesonthebeach.com/on-pe…
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Here's my essay/review on modernist misreadings of Petrarch and A.M. Juster's translation of the Canzoniere at Socrates on the Beach. Many thanks to @Greg_Gerke
(with a curious typo in the URL, which I like to think of as the Anglicized form of Petracco)
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Maiden by Socrates contributor Cynthia Buchanan has just been reissued. The Paris Review wrote on it (as did Steven Moore): socratesonthebeach.com/cynth…
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I have an essay out via @the_met_review all about the effects of abysmal editing standards amongst modern writers and publications (and all about the baffling and glaring flaws/typos in Percival Everett's The Trees). We are living in The Typo Generation
metropolitanreview.org/p/the…
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Bill Gass said we should read Donne! That's enough for me. socratesonthebeach.com/willi… cc @Greg_Gerke
Socrates on the Beach is now on hiatus. Apologies to the people who submitted for the fall issue.
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Here's my @LRB piece about Ralph Ellison, not as novelist but as essayist + correspondent after Invisible Man during the decades he worked on his second novel (posthumously published in unfinished form), with thoughts from Saul Bellow, Irving Howe et al
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n19/…
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Daniela Cascella reading 9 Oct from BEAUTY, BURNING: THE CONDITION OF MUSIC with Ellen Dillon at the Hundred Years Gallery, London. Photo credit: Helena Hunter erratumpress.com/beauty-burn…
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Degas at the Met greg-gerke.medium.com/degas-…
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This is a fruitful approach to seeing Degas
Degas at the Met greg-gerke.medium.com/degas-…
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