The stories of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are some of the most gorgeous fantastic tales I’ve ever read. They’re full of surprise and grotesquerie and startlingly vivid textures. While they express the ideology of their time, they also manage to be subversive in many ways. The precision of their style is a great vehicle for the somehow culturally logical absurdities of the narratives. Unforgettable. I could read these stories over and over.
Harry Crosby Day!
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Harry and Caresse Crosby at desk in library*, **19 Rue de Lille*, Paris
Harry Crosby – hey now heads up people today marks the 127th anniversary of
his ...
Death and life in the morning
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The rooster was standing beside a dead chicken. As Lilith and I approached,
the rooster walked away, but in a circle that arrived back at the dead
chicken...
ALONE IN THE CITY WITH YOU.
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I remember you as a refrain so I return to you (again.)
The flowers, I tell you, have no buttons.
They name their virtues while the wind strikes them wi...
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Reading Peter Schjeldahl Peter Schjeldahl builds paragraphs. Possibly no
other critic now writing in English has such a strong sense of what that
unit of...
Permacultures and Pollinator Pathways of Mind
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Westchester, NY Pollinator Pathway Garden Tour Sunday June 13! The suburban
backyard I inherited when I moved into this house was sculpted with
ornamental ...
For a Commonplace Book 9
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W. got talking of Emerson again: “The world does not know what our
relations really were—they think of our friendship always as a literary
friendship: it w...
The Next Big Thing: Divya Victor
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*What is the working title of the book?*
*Things To Do With Your Mouth* is the title. Les Figues is the publisher.
*Who or what inspired you to write...
Norwich
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Ah, it's good to be back in Norwich, must run now, captions later.
My favorite fish and chips shop.
And where I usually went for "a traditional cuppa."
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