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While I was at Phipps Country Store in Pescadero, California today [sadly, it went out of business shortly after this post] I decided to take advantage of the available heirloom beans (beyond the several pounds I bought). It seemed a fitting setting for Wiesław Myśliwski’s A Treatise on Shelling Beans, forthcoming from Archipelago Books. A […]
We saw yesterday’s matinee of It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play by Joe Landryat Shakespeare Santa Cruz and I want to recommend it to readers in the SF Bay area (and anyone visiting during its run). Information on the show can be found at the SSC site: Become the studio audience as just […]
Paul Cartledge spoke at the SPHS Autumn Lecture, Tuesday November 12th 2013 held at The Hellenic Centre in London. Thanks to David Meadows at rogueclassicism for posting a link to this lecture. My post on the book can be found here. “The story I have woven…is one of commemoration, of rivalry, classically ancient Greek rivalry […]
What the Emperor Cannot Do: Tales and Legends of the Orient by Vlas DoroshevichTranslated by Rowen Glie (in collaboration with Ronald M. Landau) and John DeweyGlas New Russian Writing: 2012 (Volume 53)ISBN 978-5-7172-0094-3 Earlier this year I expressed my admiration for the works of Anatoly Mariengof published by Glas (Cynics and A Novel Without Lies). […]
Blogger tells me this is my 1,000th post on this site. So I’ll pass along a picture I took today while the boys and I were touring the mining museum in New Almaden, California. I just wish I had a book with me to drop in the lending library. If you’d like to learn about […]
A Literary History of Alabama: The Nineteenth Century by Benjamin Buford Williams Associated University Presses, Inc.: Cranbury, New Jersey, 1979 ISBN: 0-8386-2054-X This post is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Ben and Marilyn Williams. I consider myself fortunate to have been friends of theirs. This study is a biographical, bibliographical, generic, critical, and chronological […]
Primo Levi’s Universe: A Writer’s Journey by Sam Magavern Foreword by Jonathan Rosen, Afterword by Risa Sodi Palgrave Macmillan: New York City, 2009 ISBN 978-0-230-60647-0 [W]hen we read all of Levi’s writings together, we find that he has woven a great and terrifying testament, one of the most vital bodies of work in modern literature. […]