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Archive for July, 2007

Burning Moonlight (Selected Readings)

Posted in 201, 9/11, Book review, Books, Charles Simic, Children of Men, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Essays and Non Fiction, Essays and reviews, Falling Man, In the Country of Last Things, Jim Crace, Joseph Cornell, Literary criticism, Literature, Mohamed Atta, New release, P.D. James, Paul Auster, Prose poems, Reading, Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban, Science fiction, September 11, Surrealism, The Pesthouse, The Road, World Trade Center, dystopia, fiction, genre, literary, writing on July 12, 2007 | 4 Comments »

(Reviews of Charles Simic’s Dimestore Alchemy, Don DeLillo’s Falling Man & Jim Crace’s The Pesthouse)

Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell
by Charles Simic
(The Ecco Press; Hardcover; 1992)
Amazon.com
A remarkable and inspired short volume, consisting of prose poems devoted to the mysterious boxes Joseph Cornell conceived and constructed over the course of his life.
Mr. [...]

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Burning Moonlight (Selected Readings)

Posted in After Dark, Alessandro Baricco, An Oral Biography of Rant Casey, Book review, Books, City Reading, Essays and Non Fiction, Essays and reviews, Fight Club, H.L. Mencken, Haruki Murakami, Homer, Hunter S. Thompson, Iliad, James Othmer, Kafka On The Shore, Literary criticism, Literature, New release, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rant:, Reading, Robert Fagles, The Futurist, Wind Up Bird Chronicle, literary, writing on July 1, 2007 | 3 Comments »

***Reviews of new books by Chuck Palahniuk, Haruki Murakami, Alessandro Baricco & James Othmer ***
The Futurist
by James P. Othmer
(Anchor Canada; PB; $19.95)
Amazon.com            Random House
Meet J.P. Yates, noted prognosticator and forecaster of things to come. His presence at conferences and corporate retreats is [...]

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