Brief Moments Upon the Blank Page: Moyra Davey’s Index Cards
The collection enacts—even performs—its own coming into being.
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Posts Tagged: Robert Walser
What to Read When You Want a Good Short Book
Kim Adrian shares a reading list to celebrate DEAR KNAUSGAARD.
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How to Write about Nothing: Kate Zambreno’s Drifts
But the evasion is purposeful, and the purpose is to marvelous effect.
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The Violence of Forgetting: The Divers’ Game by Jesse Ball
His is not a language that trivializes violence; it’s a language that exposes it.
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Girlfriends, Ghosts and Other Stories by Robert Walser
Rafel Fernández reviews Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories by Robert Walser today in Rumpus Books.
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The Walk by Robert Walser
Robert Walser’s legendary novella Der Spaziergang (The Walk), the first work of his to appear in English and the only one to be translated during his lifetime, is now available in the revised version he published three years after the original edition of 1917. Susan Bernofsky (who has translated numerous works of Walser’s including The […]
...moreModern Reader #4: Without Style
I often wonder if reviews can be great. Can a book (or an essay) that is essentially “about” another book compare to an original work?
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