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Peter Handke’s new book arrived at my perch above Utah Valley this week. And this paragraph on page 11 provoked, as Handke’s work has always done, an attempt at translation. Er war, seit langem, ohne Frau, hatte auch keine Kinder, … Continue reading
Walking today around a familiar loop on the side of our mountain— about 10 kilometers with maybe 400 meters of altitude gain—I stepped off Summit Creek Road (there is neither summit nor a creek, just a developer’s scheme to sell … Continue reading
For my 64th birthday, Alex gave me one of the 25 copies of his new book Les Yeux Chauds, or Hot Eyes. It is a book of portraits, including some “selph portraits” I had seen and admired before. The drawings were … Continue reading
In the tradition of Peter Handke’s Wunschloses Unglück / A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, which is quoted at one point, David Albahari’s Tsing (a novel? a failed biography of his dead father? a set of meditations about writing and memory and loss?) thinks about … Continue reading
. . . fearing . . . that I would end up stuck here forever, constrained, among people who believe that knowledge, rather than being the mastery of ignorance, is confirmation of the desire that things be the way a … Continue reading
THE GOALIE'S ANXIETY 