but if they were, it would have to be on the sly… so how would you know

the Amok publications were encylopedias of extreme cultural phenomenon. peeled my eyes open

the feline presence would all be worth the trouble. no cats here, for the time being!

of the ones i’ve read it is my fave too. not quite her “high modernism” that has been vaunted here & there, but very loose & experimental, oblique, & a lightness to it all

i haven’t read Lighthouse, but a handful of her others. when I read Jacob’s Room, i thought, what the hell, this is a nouveau roman!

look, if anyone knows how to sell books, well, i’m not so sure that i do

that’s brutal. good thing i’m only [checks the current year] 42

as they go “transalion” isn’t the worst typo one could imagine, but it kind of makes you wonder abt the integrity of my writing process

from the editor’s note to this new edition, a couple comments from the published letter from 1955

thanks for the tip! i’ll order that from interlibrary loan. he includes some comments on his process of cross-referencing different scientific dictionaries in a translator’s note to the English editions, & he also wrote a letter pub’d in The Daily Telegraph (Feb 1955) mentioning some details 1/2

thanks for this article. here in ottawa, i have found some areas along the escarpment where i hike where the wild turkeys evidently shelter alongside the rock faces, leaving ample layers of scat. at least i’m pretty sure this is turkey scat