A Review of Paul Auster’s “Invisible”
Tags/ Posted by Mark KerstetterAs I sat in the Coffee Club today, who should I see but Ernest Hemingway.continue reading this poem
Paul Auster’s fifteenth novel, Invisible, is a story about a man trying to tell a story. We see him as a twenty-year-old, and then as a sixty-year-old, struggling to get the story of his twenty-year-old self out. But a life cannot be bound to words, and will have to remain an enigma, invisible forever and ever. Auster explores this impossibility, this essential truth about ourselves and story telling, with all of the artistry of his sixty-three years.
Gyorgy Faludy Comes Home
Tags/ Posted by Tony ThomasYour body is more like a gesture than a thing. More like a song than a gesture.continue reading this poem
GYÖRGY FALUDY From Thomas Land, in Budapest BOOK after translated book, a soft-spoken poet who spent a long life writing in an awkward, minority language is taking his rightful place among the giants of world literature — even in his homeland. György Faludy was born in Budapest a century ago this September. He was a [...]
The Talented Miss Highsmith
Tags/ Posted by Gretta BarclayWhat season is it, Cy, when all the birds get dragged backcontinue reading this poem
The author of The Talented Mr. Ripley series, and other diabolical crime mysteries had talent indeed, and an eccentric personality to match. The 2009 biography of Patricia Highsmith written by Joan Schenkar, entitled The Talented Miss Highsmith, attests to these facts.
The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang
Tags/ Posted by Gretta Barclayevery day Sarah gave thanks for the embalmed words of her childhoodcontinue reading this poem
If you believe Lin Yutang, author of The Importance of Living, man is a curious wayward dreamer who is furiously pursuing all the wrong things. Yutang has a very specific philosophy for living life which will bring genuine contentment, and he begins with the idea of detachment, which is similar to Buddhist philosophy.
