Everything Readable

These are bits and pieces of the mystery, not given that we should understand and thereby dissolve it, but that with each new speck its depth might be expanded and we humbled.

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Upside Down

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Eduardo Galeano They don't live in the city where they live. They're not allowed to set foot in the vast hell that threatens their...
Saturday, June 4, 2011

Double Fold

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Nicholson Baker The British Library's newspaper collection occupies several buildings in Colindale, north of London, near a former Roy...
Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Life: A User's Manual

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Georges Perec However irksome are the discomfitures which a man who has given himself body and soul to the profession of ethnography may e...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Box of Matches

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Nicholson Baker Claire told me last night that Lucy, the frail but funny woman who lives on our street, has had to go into the hospital. S...
Sunday, May 8, 2011

Wonderful World

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Javier Calvo If you want to create a special place, says Mr Bocanegra, put in all the statues you can. Wonderful World makes for an inte...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Garbage

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Stephen Dixon Two men come in and sit at the bar. I say 'How you doing, fellas, what'll it be?' 'What are you, about to c...
Monday, February 14, 2011

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

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Thornton Wilder The Archbishop knew that most of the priests of Peru were scoundrels. It required all his delicate Epicurean education to ...
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