Guest Post, by Brian Kiteley: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
From Donald Barthelme’s story “Terminus”: “Naked, she twists in his arms to listen to a sound outside the door, a scratching, she freezes, listening; he’s startled by the beauty of her tense back, the...
View ArticleA Sentence About a Sentence I Love: An Anthology, of Sorts
A few months ago, in April, to be exact, I started a series of posts entitled “A Sentence About a Sentence I Love” with a sentence about one of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s magnificent sentences. This...
View ArticleBrian Kiteley’s “Fifty Indispensable Books”
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams Isaac Babel, Collected Stories J.G. Ballard, Crash Donald Barthelme, City Life Samuel Beckett, Proust Walter Benjamin, Reflections Jane Bowles, My Sister’s...
View ArticleBig Other’s Birthday Tribute to William H. Gass, 2012
Photo by Frank Di Piazza It’s probably too easy a move to begin my very brief remarks about Gass’s use of architecture as a metaphor by trotting out the old horse of a quote about language being the...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: An Anthology, of Sorts
Note: This was originally published November 10, 2010. A few months ago, in April, to be exact, I started a series of posts entitled “A Sentence About a Sentence I Love” with a sentence about one of...
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