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I am intrigued by the way you might pick up great bits of literature on the net in the same way you might pick up mp3s. There are many great poems and poets and short stories I've discovered via intensive googling.

Something I discovered this weekend is a fantastic essay by Mark Halliday - who is, undoubtedly, my favourite contemporary American poet. It's about the arrogance - and beauty - of great poetry.

You can find it here: http://www.poems.com/essahall.htm

This is the thread where you link to great essays, poems, short stories, and provide a great public service to us all.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 22 February 2004 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

An oldie but a goodie. Should be compulsory for all lovers of fiction. Most (if not all) of you have already read it, but for those who haven't, I present: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/07/myers.htm

― writingstatic (writingstatic), Monday, 23 February 2004 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Carl Dennis's book of poems T he Practical Gods is the kind of Pulitzer Prize-winner that makes up for all the duds they've awarded, and the poem The God That Loves You is the kind of poem that gets sent (I've forwarded it myself) to dear old friends, as if it could explain why people lose, and then foolishly try to regain, touch: http://www.sheilaomalley.com/archives/000608.htmla
That Halliday article is cool

― Donald, Monday, 23 February 2004 05:36 (twenty-one years ago)

http://wesclark.com/am/ http://wesclark.com/am/ http://wesclark.com/am/ http://wesclark.com/am/ http://wesclark.com/am/ http://wesclark.com/am/

Good in terms of writing ability, but brilliant in powers of evocation. I've spent an absurd amount of time in the past few years at this place.

― The Second Drummer Drowned (Atila the Honeybun), Monday, 23 February 2004 06:47 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a stray "a" on the end of your link, Donald but I found the poem and it's great.

Here's another from me. http://www.georgesaundersland.com/ is a really great resource on one of my current favourite American short story writers. In particular it led me to this story which is astounding:

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?030127fi_fiction

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 23 February 2004 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)

http://gutenberg.net/find.shtml

Classix0rs free for the downloading. Enjoy. I am working my way through H Rider Haggard.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 23 February 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.riza.com/richard/coffee.shtml

It's by Richard Brautigan, my favourite hippy.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow - the Nipper's link is pure Nipperdom.

It's as though it was written by Steve Heighway and read out by Greil Marcus with the Human League playing in the background.

That would actually be stranger than I intended it to sound.

― the blissfox, Monday, 23 February 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Today's entry: 'Rebecca' by Don Bartheleme.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

(How can I mis-spell the name of an author I love so dearly? It's Barthelme. Barthelme. Barthelme.)

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)

My favorite so far, because I'm in a John Donne kind of mood lately is his works at this site:
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/donnebib.htm

For new pieces of work, I found this site, which are actually translated from their original languages each month:
http://www.wordswithoutborders.org

― yesabibliophile (yesabibliophile), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

(How can I mis-spell the name of an author I love so dearly? It's Barthelme. Barthelme. Barthelme.)

I mis-spelt his name on my UCAS form!

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Today's link: Patti Smith on departed heroes:
http://www.oceanstar.com/patti/poetry/jukebox.htm

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

RTFM. That's my good deed for the day.

― SRH (Skrik), Thursday, 26 February 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

oh god I should get
a whole raft of shit for this
but here's mine again

http://www.brainevent.com/be/Novel

it's a serial novel I wrote mostly for high schoolers on Brainevent.com, it's got lots of mistakes, it was written in 2001, check out how "Alias" has stolen this whole season from my idea ha ha.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 26 February 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Not Greil Marcus, then.

Camille Paglia.

― the spellfox, Friday, 27 February 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

A great piece on reader's block by the lovely Geoff Dyer.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 29 February 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

A reading of a wonderful Neil Gaiman short story. Anyone can listen to Snow Glass Apples (and Murder Mysteries) for free over at scifi.com -- it's up at http://www.scifi.com/set/playhouse/snowglassapples/. (Link from NG journal http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/journal.asp)

― PuzzleMonkey (PuzzleMonkey), Saturday, 6 March 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

nipper, more!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 13 March 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Steve Gehrke's "Inside the Dialysis Machine" wrecked me a couple weeks ago.

― bnw (bnw), Saturday, 13 March 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I know I go on and on about him but here's a nice essay on "the dilemma of the peot" by don paterson.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 14 March 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, that is great, Coz. Has anyone ever heard Radka Toneff?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 14 March 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Hard work, but worth it: Richard Rorty on James and Proust.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 14 March 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I know you're not taken with her JtN but here's a link to lavinia greenlaw's "the spirit of the staircase".

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 14 March 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

crikey! does 'hard work' = what a blimmin annoying typeface?!

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 14 March 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll read that if you read Gary Lutz's Esprit d'Elevator

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 14 March 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"If it's going to be a poem - and this is crucial - I don't immediately understand what I've written. I don't understand it because it isn't telling me something I knew already. I know it's come from somewhere else, so I get scared; as André Previn once remarked: if you do good work you should be scared by it. Then I get the shivers, or I burst into tears, or I get totally blissed out. Man. At this point I'm always reminded Borges's brilliant definition of the aesthetic fact: the imminence of a revelation which does not come."

That's funny, I always think of it as pushing against a giant door and it just cracked a few more millimeters. (that's from that paterson essay btw.)

― bnw (bnw), Sunday, 14 March 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

what did you think of the essay, bnw?

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 14 March 2004 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

A lot of it reads as familiar to me, experiences I've had writing but have never verbalized to quite that length. Such as all the hammer and nails work you have to do for the few seconds of a couple easy lines to suddenly and miraculously slip out. But unlike mr. paterson, I start poems with ideas/images in mind more frequently then words or music. Clarity and precision is priority one for me. How pretty it sounds is also important, but ultimately secondary. It sounds like he's more of an intuitive poet then me.

― bnw (bnw), Monday, 15 March 2004 04:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Rorty's first sentence is abysmal.

― the bellefox, Monday, 15 March 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

dean young, "and you don't even have to leave the building."

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Coz, is nicking my links now!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

This review of the worst book he ever read is laugh out loud funny.

My husband keeps a copy in his backpack and hands it to people who talk about literary pretention.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A57528-2003Feb11¬Found=true

― Clellie, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

a.l. kennedy, "on being a writer". (perhaps a candidate for the 'lyric essay' thread?)

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"But there are also the wonderful people who love words and want them to live, who want characters to stand clear of the page and run, who take the time to understand a text and then to help it be itself – these are the people who give the most savage and beautiful notes, the people that you can spend hours with and not notice, the people you rewrite for before you’re asked, because they should have better than the best, the people who understand that words have music and must sing, the people who make writing the hardest work and the hardest fun. You go without sleep and food together, you worry together, you are very, very silly together and you play in a way that gets things done. These people make a solitary profession inhabited, they are near friends of the heart and if you meet one or two in your life you are fortunate. I have been very fortunate."

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

james robertson, "the bluidy sark". (halfway down the page.)

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow. That quote is so nice I kind of want to send it anonymously to my old writing program.

― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Cozen, do you like Morvern Callar as much as JtN does?

I've read it 3 times and I'm less sure of it now. And I was never entirely sure of it.

― the bluefox, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I dislike it as much as JtN seems to like it, the pinefox.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I just dislike alan warner because he is friendly with duncan mcclean ("sprucketful of tongues", "bunker man") whose writing I abhor. it's more guilt by association that guilt by trial. though to be truthful I did not like MC at all. well, little. (and detest the film, sadly.)

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I have not seen the film; have heard it's weak; have heard it's good; do not like Ratcatcher, as said elsewhere.

I don't know MacLean: why's he bad?

Is there anything about MC itself that you dislike?

Actually maybe you should like it more than I do cos the music in it is more your kind of music?

― the bluefox, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

the film of MC is awful. ratcatcher is beyond beyond 'where everything else blurs into everything else'.

maclean is bad because he's the worst kind of coarse and his book ("bunker man") is peppered with all different sorts of samey sex. his is a parochialism which is insular and self-congratulatory rather than expansive. 'expansive parochialism'.

I dislike the dislocation or alienation of the lack of Names. I dislike the writing. I dislike... its author.

I don't see how your last point follows. in fact, perhaps you'd like... mclean?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

plus: from what I remember it isn't really 'my kind of music'. : /

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

in fact I decided I don't dislike the 'dislocation or alienation' of MC and in fact was just grasping at (...) something (...) when I said that. I'll fish out my copy if I can find it and provide a truer, less intellectually dishonest answer.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if this is "great", but to me anyway it's clever writing and highly entertaining: The pianist Glenn Gould interviewing Glenn Gould about Glenn Gould.

http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/glenngould/m23-502.7-e.html

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Cozen, I think my last point was straightforward. MC likes dance music and weird avant-garde music. So do you; but I don't: so that ought to give you an avenue into the book that I lack?

― the bluefox, Thursday, 18 March 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

"those were different times".

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 20 March 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's a collection of stories that came out of my girlfriend having a friendly, open-submission apocalyptic fiction project. I would by no means describe mine as great, but Ann Sterzinger's is.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 21 March 2004 03:20 (twenty-one years ago)

www.plagarist.com

All poetry, all the time...

― yesabibliophile (yesabibliophile), Sunday, 21 March 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure this will work but if I pull it off here is janice galloway's "proposal".

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 22 March 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

that's specifically for ann sterzinger.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 22 March 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I always liked this flash poem.

― bnw (bnw), Monday, 22 March 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

http://football.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,4284,1163412,00.html

― the beebfox, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Early English Books Online

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

(Something sweet - the mother of one of the poets who's work I linked emailed me.)

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 26 March 2004 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Awww!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 26 March 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

A fine collaborative effort: Does Anyone Know Anything About Blissium Or Where To Get It?.

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 26 March 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

any more?

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 17 May 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

you linked the pressler essay! nice job. she's in the creative writing department at s.u.n.y.-buffalo now, i think.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 17 May 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh drat, I can't get at the Galloway.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Monday, 17 May 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, I realised!

I could post it up here?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Nothing great but I liked it: everyday was a sunday.

― xoxo, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

These 'How To' guides are fascinating:

'How to Stay Best Friends After High School';

'How to Reject Someone Nicely';

'How to Eliminate Jealousy';

'How to Talk to Your Parents';

'How to Know When It's Love'.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 20 May 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Jerry The Nipper already posted a story by him, but here's one more!
Adams, by George Saunders (@Newyorker.com)

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Monday, 9 August 2004 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

That Barthelme is so so wow.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

If you go here you can download the pdf of a terrific essay by Dave Hickey.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Prickly Paradigm press have made a bunch of their pamphlets available as downloadable pdfs. Highly recommended: Richard Rorty's 'Against bosses, against oligarchies' (wherein RR removes the opera gloves of ironist politesse) and Donna Haraway talking about her dawgs, Cayenne and Roland. Find these and more here: http://www.prickly-paradigm.com/catalog.html

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 28 October 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I have download the Richard Rorty one. I wonder what will happen to me now.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 29 October 2004 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

cheating, a touch.

'the internet archive' (www.archive.org) has made available lots of sound files of lectures and gigs. of particular interest to ILB perhaps: the naropa audio archives, with lots of archived ginsberg lectures and anne waldman 'going on her nerve' talking about frank o'hara.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 30 October 2004 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

strictly for the broad band, I'd imagine.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 30 October 2004 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't have that band. But I like the sound of the last thing, a lot.

'Those were different times'!

I like the gentleness and enthusiasm of this thread. It reminds me of how ILB is better than ILE, in a way.

Cozen, we will meet again someday, maybe. ?

― the bluefox, Saturday, 30 October 2004 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

like two old chinese drunks arguing over their favourite mountains and the million reasons for both.

existentialism is a humanism.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 30 October 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I couldn't re-find this on the www so I will host it myself:

philip sherburne, "click/"

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 30 October 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

F. Scott Fitzgerald's "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz"

http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/diamond/diamond.html

― Mr. Jaggers, Saturday, 30 October 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

G. K. Chesterton's 'The Man Who Was Thursday':

http://www.badosa.com/bin/obra.pl?id=n216

I don't know if it's great or not, but I bet it is.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 1 November 2004 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

'empire' by hardt & negri.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 7 November 2004 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Impressed by this piece today in the NYT. You are welcome to use my login/pass of moo1234.

The Terrorist as Auteur

― bnw (bnw), Sunday, 14 November 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

The typeface on this website is annoying, but you could cut and paste it into a more readable one. Actually I recommend printing it out and reading it tonight when you're getting ready to go to sleep:

"Celephais" by H.P. Lovecraft

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Free books for reading online or downloading

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Saturday, 20 November 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

haven't read the writing but this is worth a look for the brilliant cover designs:

http://journal.aiga.org/content.cfm?ContentAlias=%5Fgetfullarticle&aid=890615

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 27 November 2004 13:11 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

more!

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

don't you people read?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 10:51 (twenty years ago)

Milorad Pavic page with lots of stuff:

http://www.khazars.com/en/

Hypertext/hyperfiction story ('Damascene: A Tale For Computers And Compasses') of his:

http://ezone.org/damaskin/

― emil.y (emil.y), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

I read, Cozen, books.

But how about this, for fun?

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ehansen/VU/sisray.html

― the bellefox, Sunday, 3 April 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

Let's throw in a few science fiction classics:

Samuel R. Delany - "Aye, And Gomorrah"

Brian Aldiss - "Super-toys last all summer long":

Harlan Ellison - "I have no mouth and I must scream"

― Øystein (Øystein), Saturday, 9 April 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

Oh, since I'm already posting. I can't find a better place for posting this. It's not writing, but rather a video of Umberto Eco holding a lecture, focusing mainly on the art of translation.
http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=1103

Great site to browse around on, by the way. It should be noted that you need the cursed RealPlayer (real.com) to view this.

― Øystein (Øystein), Saturday, 9 April 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

James Branch Cabell's "Jurgen"
(follow the links at the very bottom of the page to get forward, there's a chapter index here)

― Øystein (Øystein), Thursday, 14 April 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

I have been looking at 'How To Stay Best Friends After High School'.

― the bellefox, Monday, 18 April 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

An English translation of Virgilio Piñera's "The death of the birds"

― Øystein (Øystein), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

For those who read Spanish: http://www.ciudadseva.com/textos/cuentos/esp/hndz/balcon.htm

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 6 May 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

http://www.pulp.net/top10/06/paul-morley.html

Remarkably, he likes the novelisation of ET, which was very important to me in about 1983.

― the pomefox, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

which is funny, cause it was to me too, but i just let my mum give the book away

― misshajim (strand), Thursday, 19 May 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

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