Maxine Hong Kingston in conversation with Gish Jen; Laura Kolbe …
WEBJun 3, 2022 · Maxine Hong Kingston. Photo: Michael Lionstar/Penguin Random House. On Monday, June 13, Maxine Hong Kingston will be joined in an online conversation by Gish Jen, author of The Resisters, at 92Y to celebrate the publication of a Library of America edition of Kingston’s books The Woman Warrior, Tripmaster Monkey, China Men, and other collected writings.
All the World’s a Cage - Franz Kafka’s fictional entrapments ...
WEBNov 30, 2020 · The critic who cannot proceed directly to Kafka—who must pass through the maze of mythologizations in biographies, monographs, and apologies-cum-articles—mirrors his characters’ futile movements. If his work teaches anything, it is that we must try to demonstrate our innocence to implacable judges, despite or perhaps because of the ...
Dec 11, 2012 @ 12:02:00 am - Bookforum Magazine
WEBDec 11, 2012 · Bids are starting at 42,000 euros for a letter in which an especially neurotic Franz Kafka describes his “naked fear” of mice: “it's certainly related to the unexpected, unwanted, unavoidable, sort of mute, grim, secret-purposeful appearance of these animals, with the feeling that they have dug hundreds of tunnels through the walls around ...
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Cara Blue Adams - bookforum.com
WEBAnd each diary is unique; each represents a specific set of circumstances met by a specific mind. It’s fun to dip into John Cheever’s and then Franz Kafka’s, like moving between an icy pool and a hot tub—a pleasant shock.
Oct 16, 2012 @ 12:22:00 am - Bookforum Magazine
WEBOct 16, 2012 · The young Franz Kafka. A suitcase full of tens of thousands of previously unpublished documents by Franz Kafka might soon be made public, thanks to a recent ruling by a Tel Aviv judge. The papers—which include Kafka’s notebooks and letters—have been under dispute since the death of their final owner in 2007.
Tracy O’Neill reads tonight in Brooklyn Bridge Park
WEBAug 2, 2021 · In her obituary for the New York Times, Alexandra Alter noted of Calasso: “His writing defied easy categorization, ranging from his first and only novel, The Impure Fool, to his reflections on ancient human consciousness, his study of the 18th-century Venetian artist Giambattista Tiepolo, a book about …
The Unfinished Novel - Bookforum Magazine
WEBJul 24, 2013 · The Castle by Franz Kafka Kafka is intensely present in all his work, but especially so in this novel, which he began writing in 1922 and left unfinished, in midsentence, when his tuberculosis took a turn for the worse (it killed him two years later).
R. Crumb gives visual form to the first book of the Bible - Jeet …
WEBSince the early ’80s, he has been releasing a remarkable series of literary adaptations, faithfully and lovingly based on scenes from works such as James Boswell’s London Journal, Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s Psychopathia Sexualis, Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea, and Franz Kafka’s stories. These are all works of literary extremism, focused ...
Life Goes On by Hans Keilson - Bookforum Magazine
WEBDec 11, 2012 · Comedy, a darkly humorous tale that earned Keilson comparisons to Franz Kafka, is about a Dutch couple who hide a Jew in their house, only to have him die under their roof, causing all sorts of problems (namely, how do they dispose of the body without the Nazis discovering they were hiding it). Death, on the other hand, is an even stranger ...