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night fishing in antibes
“—Was it you I saw this afternoon? a little while ago? —Me? Why? Where? —Were you there, where they’re showing Picasso’s new . . . —Night Fishing in Antibes, yes, yes . . . —Why didn’t you speak to...
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“—Yes but, when I saw it, it was one of those moments of reality, of near-recognition of reality. I’d been . . . I’ve been worn out in this piece of work, and when I finished it I was free, free all of...
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“. . . Why, all this around us is for people who can keep their balance only in the light, where they move as though nothing were fragile, nothing tempered by possibility, and all of a sudden bang!...
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when things begin to smear
“—All right look I, all I meant was the whole thing’s ridic, out of proportion that appalling diCephalis woman, do you know her? —I don’t think so but . . . —Ann, she’s sort of you in a cheap edition,...
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“—Scatological? —Eschatological, the doctrine of last things . . . —Good lord, Willie, you are drunk. Either that or you’re writing for a very small audience. —So . . . ? how many people were there in...
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Matthew Herbert’s One Pig project. David George Pearson’s collection of Penguin book designs on Flickr. Stacy Szymaszek on PennSound. Malcolm Bradbury interviews William Gaddis (from 1986) at the...
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My interview with Bob Stein is up at Triple Canopy as part of Issue 9. A thread at MetaFilter about Jack Green’s Fire the Bastards!. Tangentially related: David Markson’s library appears at The...
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A fantastic postcard from William Gaddis to Frank Moorman, offering what Gaddis thought should have been the cover of Carpenter’s Gothic. A decent essay by Brian Evenson on the experience of reading...
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William Gaddis (and his second wife Judith) evidently appeared as an extra in 1973’s Ganja & Hess, a cut-rate vampire movie. See him here, here, and here. A decent review of the new editions of...
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