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now some words from Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff's new book ...

now some words from Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff's new book ...

... before I lend it to M. to read: Toufic has a new book out, by the way, Two or Three Things I'm Dying to Tell You, which DeWitt was going to order for you on Amazon ... While writing (Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film and
Simon Taylor 07 Oct 2026
Requiescat In Natura: Wendell Berry 5 August 1934–31 August 2026

Requiescat In Natura: Wendell Berry 5 August 1934–31 August 2026

“And so I go into the woods. As I go in under the trees, dependably, almost at once, and by nothing I do, things fall into place,” he once wrote. “I enter an order that does not exist outside, in the human spaces. I feel my life take its place
Simon Taylor 10 Sep 2026
“I don’t think character exists anymore.” –Rachel Cusk

“I don’t think character exists anymore.” –Rachel Cusk

... which is strange because this morning I was thinking exactly the same thing. However the thought is bluntly disputed by Brittany Allen. In her squib on Rachel Cusk's Life of M, more than likely about Natalie Portman, Allen writes, "Yet those are people, in her pages."
Simon Taylor 05 Aug 2026
Werner Herzog: we lack adequate images

Werner Herzog: we lack adequate images

...There are few images to be found. One has to dig for them like an archaeologist. One has to search through this ravaged landscape to find anything at all... It's often tied up with risk, of course, which I would never shun, but I see so few people
Simon Taylor 31 Jul 2026
"the Oort Cloud has been functioning for billions of years as a sort of 'natural LLM'"

"the Oort Cloud has been functioning for billions of years as a sort of 'natural LLM'"

—it is the “narraton particles” emitted from the Oort Cloud that explain the capacity of a certain well-known terrestrial species for telling stories, or in other words for presenting as true what is in fact false. –"Back from the Oort Cloud: An Interview with JSR in PLOOI Magazine,
Simon Taylor 16 Jul 2026
อ่าวนาง, Ao Nang & ไร่เลย์, Railay Beach

อ่าวนาง, Ao Nang & ไร่เลย์, Railay Beach

Ao translates as bay and Nang, princess. Railay comes from a Malay word meaning rice-producing. Exploring the environs, forgoing the fondue, sitting beach-side into the sunset: then electricity: 0:00 /0:24 1× 0:00 /0:43 1× snaps of ventilated cars and obligatory cats: the loudest longtail
Simon Taylor 14 Jul 2026
Stuart Cooke reads Sergio Pitol's El arte de la fuga

Stuart Cooke reads Sergio Pitol's El arte de la fuga

1996 in Spanish 2015 in English George Henson's translation although, the following is Stuart Cooke's translation: ... a simple description, without additions, without delays, echoes or shadows, fatally reduces the power of the story, converts it into a mere anecdote—something vulgar, basically. Always, from the very
Simon Taylor 01 Jul 2026

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