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1 giorno fa · In a 1996 interview with Michael Silverblatt, David Foster Wallace explained that the structure of the first draft of Infinite Jest he gave to his editor Michael Pietsch was inspired by fractals, specifically the Sierpinski triangle (a.k.a. Sierpinski gasket), but that the edited novel is "more like a lopsided Sierpinsky Gasket".
5 giorni fa · Sebald in Context Part IV. by Terry on May 28, 2024. This is the fourth and final post on W.G. Sebald in Context, an anthology of critical essays which came out last September from Cambridge University Press. It contains thirty-eight essays on Sebald by specialists from across Europe, Great Britain, the Middle East, and the United States.
7 mag 2024 · Bookworm with Michael Silverblatt; Augut 15, 2019. Toni Morrison discusses Beloved, her career, and her vision for the future of literature. Toni Morrison on writing 'Beloved' ; 1987 interview.
22 mag 2024 · Michael Silverblatt (born August 6, 1952) is an American literary critic and broadcaster who hosted Bookworm, a nationally syndicated radio program focusing on books and literature, from 1989 to 2022. Born in Queens, New York, Silverblatt attended SUNY Buffalo, majoring in English, and later pursued postgraduate studies at Johns ...
25 mag 2024 · Michael Silverblatt has been talking about books on the airwaves since 1989. On this weekly podcast, he interviews fiction and Book nerds, grab your ear buds: Here are 8 of the best literary podcasts
19 mag 2024 · This series has sailed into the doldrum years. Reading has become less of a headlong existential adventure than something one does, a pastime, a hobby, something you tell a quiz show presenter how you relax: "I like to read, Brad."
2 giorni fa · Aged 34, with the story stalled, he becomes a librarian in a town called Notodden, hoping to remove himself from this life: "the feeling of being present in purely routine operations fascinated him". This is our fascination with the novel: disappearance, routine, another life.
