Yard-long strips of poplin First thing to do is…
Yard-long strips of poplin
First thing to do is to remind everyone of my wishlist. Two books I would have added had I not bought them today are Timothy Clark�s Martin Heidegger in the Routledge Critical Thinkers series, and a recent translation of Nietzsche�s On the Genealogy of Morality with extensive notes. It is also remarkably cheap. I was persuaded to buy Clark�s book because I�ve also read his excellent The Theory of Inspiration, and also because of the excellence of the Blanchot edition mentioned below by Chris. I hope he�s reading it now in Barcelona.
Next I shall plug a new series of uncanny poems by my New York correspondent
Todd Colby. They�re posted on one of those frighteningly incomprehensible literary sites (in design if nothing else) that the East Coast seems to specialise in. Another is Necessary Prose, and the (no doubt) Beckett-inspired FailBetter. The latter includes pieces by a somebody I was in brief correspondence with a few years ago: Sam Lipsyte. He has a novel out called The Subject Steve. Nothing to do with me I assume. In it, Steve discovers he�s dying of boredom, literally (literally literally, in fact. In fact, it�s literally literary, so not fact). And so he �embarks on a project of sexual indulgence, chronic wastefulness, spending sprees and half-hearted familial reconciliation.� Yes, nothing to with me. But Sam, if you�re reading this, send us a review copy!
Other SpikeMagazine.com posts of interest:
- A long run up: Beckett’s centenary
- The Fate of an Honest Intellectual
- Get Carter
- Other lives
- Fudging the issue
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