Author: Dwight

Miscellaneous Dwight 

Welcome to the new site!

Welcome! I have wanted to have my own site for quite a while, so I’m giving it a try. The theme will eventually change and links may or may not work right now. My tags/categories did not transfer quite like I wanted, so I’ll be working on getting those updated. I’m sure there are other […]

Notes Dwight 

Undula by Bruno Schulz

Undula by Bruno Schulz Translation and Afterword by Frank Garrett Seattle: Sublunary Editions, 2020 Paperback, 42 pages Time trickles with the kerosene lamp’s faint hissing. Old equipemnt rattles and creaks in the silence. Besides me in the depths of the room there are the shadows, pointy, crooked in shard, who skulk and cheme. They stretch […]

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Dædalus now online

In January 2021, Dædalus became an Open Access journal. The editors of Dædalus thank you for your patience while they work to digitize the back catalog. The current edition of the quarterly journal Dædalus is available online, and as you can see from the above quote from their “About” page they are working to make […]

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Wishing you a happy new year!

It has been a busy year, so I’ll take this opportunity to apologize for staying mostly silent. We have been incredibly fortunate and blessed this year in spite of everything that 2020 managed to throw at the world. What could be called my ‘workload’ multiplied this year with caretaking a friend’s property, but it has […]

Notes Dwight 

Yekaterina Vasilievna Korotkova-Grossman

Vasily Grossman, with mother and daughter Katya Picture sourceFrom Robert Chandler’s Facebook page earlier today: A few minutes ago I received the sad news of the death of Yekaterina Vasilievna Korotkova-Grossman, the daughter of Vasily Grossman. She was someone unusually sensitive, perceptive and witty. We got on well from our very first meeting and I […]

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All right then… I’m a psychopath

Happy anniversary to this tweet! It couldn’t have been me judging from where Mr. Gay lives and writes. Not to mention I don’t like coffee and never drink it. I’m sure, though, I have engendered the same respone from others in coffeeshops that I have patronized for other caffeine delivery methods. Well, all that plus […]

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Tim Wilkinson (1947 – 2020)

I was extremely sad to see a post from hlo.hu on the passing of Tim Wilkinson, “One of Hungarian literature’s most prominent translators, known best for his work with Imre Kertész and Miklós Szentkuthy.” I’ve read quite a few books translated by him and have posted on some of them. Wilkinson translated many academic books, […]

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The Fairy Inn of Dry Creek

It’s easy to get bogged down in negative things right now (well, at any time, really), so I thought I would share a few pictures of things that make me smile when I’m walking our dog. On a nearby trail it appears kids have painted rocks and set up a “fairy inn” to house them. […]

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College Marketing

  I don’t think I have mentioned I have been receiving material from several universities’ and colleges’ admissions departments, marketing their college to names of people that do not live at our house. At first I laughed at them, but then I was concerned. What if there really was a kid out there that wasn’t […]

Notes Dwight 

The New Criterion, September 2020

The New Criterion September 2020 edition (link will go to the current edition at the time of your visit) is available online. I want to highlight four articles, the first two behind a paywall, alas. If you’re interested in those articles, be sure to find access to a copy of the magazine. Also note, the other […]

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Stanford Continuing Studies, Fall Courses

  I want to highlight the enrollment period of Stanford University’s Continuing Studies fall courses (link will take you to their current offerings). I took Christopher Krebs’ spring 2020 course on Tacitus and enjoyed it. I wanted to take several courses over the years, but the money hurdle and the commute time (when I was living […]

Movies, Shows, Interviews Dwight 

MUBI

If you enjoy watching out of the ordinary movies and haven’t watched the MUBI streaming service, I highly recommend checking it out. I really enjoyed watching Werner Herzog’s Family Romance, LLC and several other movies over the past couple of weeks. One film I wanted to highlight is The Portugese Woman, based on a Robert […]

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Fourth of July, X (1986 Farm Aid)

2020 strikes again. We were to go rafting in Hell’s Canyon this coming week, but a rockslide closed the only direct road to it (from our direction). I’ve already been to Hell (Grand Caymans) and the Gates of Hell (Stanford campus), so I was looking forward to Hell’s Canyon. Hopefully later this year. On that […]

Movies, Shows, Interviews Dwight 

Available to watch

On Amazon Prime I stumbled across a couple of films based on Bohumil Hrabal’s writings that are available for free to Prime members. First was The Snowdrop Festival, directed by Jiří Menzel. As I mentioned in the post, it’s a quirky, fun movie with a strong undertow of poignancy. Menzel doesn’t capture the full complexity […]