SUPERFASTREADER: World Made By Hand is filled with Kunstlerisms–imagery and expressions that are familiar to anyone who has read his books or spent any time on his blog. He is always at his best when conjuring a decaying post-automobile America, where the suburbs are blighed ghettos and big box stores crumble without power to heat and cool them.
At my age I’m about as far from childhood as it’s possible to be. Read More →
Karinthy’s Kafkaesque Classic In Translation At LastThings have changed a bit since Metropole was first published to great acclaim in Hungary in 1970. Read More →
When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleasKafka never sent this letter to his father, but instead showed it to friends. Justin Cartwright imagines the father’s reply. Read More →
Signatures are being gathered for a petition to save the Washington Post’s Book World. Read More →
Ferenc Karinthy: MetropoleIf it isn’t Hell, it’s certainly a private hell for Budai, and while certain events echo the Hungarian revolution Read More →
Publishers’ disappointments and regrets‘Kate Figes finds out which books were left on the shelf and which were the envy of all’ from a variety of UK publishers. Read More →
Kalvar’s pieces are short drama acts in which the characters...
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Burroughs on Addiction, Miller on other type of drug: possessionsAs a result of my good habit of browsing the Paris Review interviews...
