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Book Review: Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

By TF | Published: May 5, 2010
Ficciones was first published in Argentina in 1944. In 1961, a sixty-two year old Borges gained worldwide recognition when he became the joint winner of the popular but short-lived Prix Formentor following the translation of several of his short stories into French. Ficciones appeared in English the following year, however, Borges had already spent a [...]
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Public Library 22.4

By TF | Published: April 22, 2010
Final Destination. If manuscripts had an afterlife, this would be the preferred to place to go. D.T. Max on the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the literary archive of the University of Texas at Austin. Via The New Yorker. Hedonic Indicators. Bhutan’s first elected Prime Minister believed the country’s GNH (gross national happiness) needed to [...]
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Public Library 17.12

By TF | Published: December 17, 2009
Ubu Editions publishes the unpublishable. Invited authors were asked what makes something unpublishable, these are their responses. Works range ”from an 1018-page manuscript (unpublishable due to its length) to a volume of romantic high school poems written by a now-respected innovative poet.” The intelligence factory: How America makes its enemies disappear. The story of Aafia Siddiqui and the [...]
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Public Library 11.12

By TF | Published: December 11, 2009
James Wood’s best books of 2009. Via The New Yorker. Cate Kennedy on how to end a short story. Via ABC. All That, an extract from The Pale King by David Foster Wallace. Also via The New Yorker. Simon Winchester on Georges Perec. Via OUP blog. Amazon to sell short stories for the Kindle. I [...]
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Public Library 27.11

By TF | Published: November 27, 2009
Zadie Smith on the rise of the essay. “In the first place, “well-made novel” seems to me to be a kind of Platonic bogeyman, existing everywhere in an ideal realm but in few spots on this earth.” Excellent essay on the similarities and differences between the essay and the novel. From The Guardian. Midnight in [...]
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Public Library 6.7

By TF | Published: July 6, 2009
Ulysses as a comic. You’ll know if it’s for you. Great story about butchering (in the professional sense) a pig by Bill Buford from The New Yorker from a few years back. Sick of the full or double Windsor knot? Us too. That’s why we wear the Ediety/Merovingian/Matrix Knot.
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