Body of Nonsense
It is winter, and I’ve been thinking a lot about Samuel Beckett.
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Join NOW!It is winter, and I’ve been thinking a lot about Samuel Beckett.
...moreOh my god, I’m stuck again. A truck in the muck. A cat up a tree. An explorer in quicksand. Winnie the Pooh in the door of Rabbit’s house. Trying to birth a column and needing a Caesarean. Is there any horror worse for a writer than a deadline?
...moreThe Publisher-in-Chief of Civil Coping Mechanisms and Book Reviews Editor for Electric Literature talks about his newest novel, The Strangest.
...moreSixty years ago, Samuel Beckett published Waiting for Godot, a self-translated English version of his original French play, En Attendant Godot. Elizabeth Winkler writes for The Millions about how Beckett’s bilingual writing practices influenced his work and vexed scholars.
...moreVLAD: (points at ESTHER’s legs) What’s with the leg warmers? ESTHER: What do you mean? VLAD: I’ve never seen you wear them. ESTHER: I don’t know what to tell you. They’re warm. Can you help me with this? (With VLAD’s help she succeeds in pulling off her shoe. She turns it upside down and shakes […]
...moreWhile working on an interview with the Great Gatsby video game folks, this wonderfully clever Waiting for Godot game went viral on the web.
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