The Canal — Lee Rourke
In Lee Rourke’s début novel The Canal, the unnamed narrator quits his job and begins walking to a canal everyday. Why? Out of boredom. At the titular canal, he watches (and describes in banal detail)...
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At HTMLGIANT, Catherine Lacey interviews Lee Rourke about boredom, the writing process, dialogue, foxes, and his new novel The Canal. Read our review of The Canal here. From the interview: Your...
View ArticleBooks of 2010 — Noteworthy, Notorious, and Neglected
Biblioklept already busted out our Best Books of 2010 list, selecting ten of our favorite novels of the year. Such limitations help to generate lists, which internet folks love to circulate–you know...
View ArticleThe Never-Ending Torture of Unrest | Georg Büchner’s Lenz Reviewed
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (detail), Francisco Goya Composed in 1836, Georg Büchner’s novella-fragment Lenz still seems ahead of its time. While Lenz’s themes of madness, art, and ennui can...
View Article“Language Is Such a Mess”— A Short Review of Lee Rourke’s Vulgar Things
What does Slavoj Zizek mean when he says that the Lacanian Symoblic carries the “stain of the Real”? During a talk I once saw him deliver, we watched a clip from David Lean’s Brief Encounter. The plot...
View ArticleThe Never-Ending Torture of Unrest | Georg Büchner’s Lenz Reviewed
Composed in 1836, Georg Büchner’s novella-fragment Lenz still seems ahead of its time. While Lenz’s themes of madness, art, and ennui can be found throughout literature, Büchner’s strange, wonderful...
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