(Translation: Richard Zenith. ) Favorite Reading Experiences I finally read Thomas Pynchon’s novel Gravity’s Rainbow in full in 2015. Then I immediately read it again (which is sort of like really rea...
09.23.2023 Biblioklept.orgWant to read to read the latest from Don DeLillo ? Of course you do. Check out “Midnight in Dostoevsky, ” via The New Yorker. Still not intrigued? Here’s the first paragraph: We were two sombre boys h...
09.23.2023 Biblioklept.orgBondage by Leonor Fini. Part of Fini’s illustrations for a 1962 edition of Pauline Réage’s novel The Story of O . I wrote about the first third of Anna Kavan’s 1967 novel Ice here and then wrote about...
09.23.2023 Biblioklept.orgSunday, April 24, 2016 John ONeill Comments 6 comments I’ve covered a handful of truly massive anthologies at Black Gate over the years — Otto Penzler’s The Vampire Archives and The Big Book of Advent...
09.20.2023 Blackgate.comThe Triumph of Death, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1562 Harold Bloom’s esteem for Blood Meridian may have done much to advance the novel’s reputation over the past decade. His essay on the book, first published in his 2000 collection How to Read and Why and later included as the preface to Random House’s Modern Library editions, makes a strong case for Blood Meridian’s canonical status. Bloom begins, in typical Bloomian fashion–the anxiety of influence is always at work–by situating McCarthy’s b...
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