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Re: Keith Gessen Blog - The literary world is up in arms over comments by...

RES — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:53:32 -0000

A reader writes in with a correction: Maybe this is a translation error, but Nature Methods doesn't have "administrative assistants", they have editorial assistants. (Still degrading, though, right?)

Re: let's not sit around and give each other hand jobs

RES — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:47:42 -0000

I think you're right that no Infinite Jest would appear in another national literature, or at least not a European one. A European writing a giant novel will put in there a history of philosophy, civilization, symbolic hierarchy of the fine arts, etc, and the end result will be a book about The Idea of Literature. IJ, and the American writer, are unique on the world stage for the same reasons: the problem for them is the fate of ordinary people ("taxpayers", maybe) living in a mangled but authentic-in-certain-important-respects culture with certain vulgar possibilities for redemption, like *entertainment* or 12-step programs. Their subject is not ' Culture', which is totally Sebald's or Houellebecq's even, or Harry Mulisch's or whoever will wins the Nobel.

Ryan

Re: Question for Lit Historians

RES — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:38:46 -0000

I just remembered this early this morning: Daniel Defoe invented the interior monologue, in Moll Flanders. I think that was written in the 1660s or 70s.

Re: Question for Lit Historians

RES — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:47:23 -0000

(Russians think in centuries)

I was taught that Dujardin invented the 'stream of consciousness' monologue. I think the interior monologue as a primary storytelling device might come out of the English epistolary novel, in the 18 century,,,
Ryan

Re: before i lose my style - MOTHERFUCKERS I’M ILL (I made this)

RES — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:19:15 -0000

hot dude
very well done