(2) BuzzFeed. Paris Review Daily - Blog, Writers, Poets, Artists - Paris Review. Donald Barthelme would’ve been, and should be, eighty-three today. It would be an exaggeration to say that I feel the absence of someone whom I never met—someone who died when I was three—but I do wonder, with something more than mere curiosity, what Barthelme would have made of the past twenty-odd years. These are decades I feel we’ve processed less acutely because he wasn’t there to fictionalize them: their surreal political flareups, their new technologies, their various zeitgeists and intellectual fads and dumb advertisements.
Part of what I love about Barthelme’s stories is the way they traffic in cultural commentary without losing their intimacy, their humanity. But I’m losing the thread. My point is not to reveal a secret wish that Barthelme was my uncle. I wanted to say something about lists. A zombie advances toward a group of thin blooming daughters and describes, with many motions of his hands and arms, the breakfasts they may expect in a zombie home. Brain Pickings. The Los Angeles Review of Books. Blog of a Bookslut. In Our MagazinesMarch 2014 Poems by Edith Södergran"My Life of the Mind, or How I Learned to Embrace Intellectual Insecurity and Distrust Neuroscience" by Dana BeckerUnder the Surface by Mojca KumerdejArt Portfolio by Michael Reedy April 15, 2014 Image: Leonora Carrington, Le chant des oiseaux In the April issue of Bookslut, Nicholas Vajifdar reviews Jane Bowles’s novel Two Serious Ladies, which was reissued by HarperCollins earlier this year.
Jane Bowles is almost as famous for her undeserved obscurity as she is for the strength of her body of work. A Google search for her name turns up results from blogs titled things like “Writers No One Reads;” The Daily Beast’s piece on Two Serious Ladies starts off with the claim “You’ve likely never heard of Jane Bowles...” For those who would like to know more about this unsung modernist writer, here are some brief essays: “All of Jane Bowles’s writing has about it an otherness that feels expressive of a child’s perceptions. April 14, 2014 "slut. " Sports and Pop Culture from Bill Simmons and our rotating cast of writers – Grantland « Pew Research Center's Journalism Project | Understanding News in the Information Age.
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