thse guys also have their lore
― mark s, Saturday, 24 October 2020 09:32 (three years ago) link
time to ilx it up imo
Will fuck about with The Charles Rosen archive:
https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/charles-rosen/
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 24 October 2020 09:50 (three years ago) link
donne piece contains a section of pure Empson, arguing a controversial textual reading via dramatising an imaginary but commonplace scene (he does this with Shakespeare a few times):Whereas, if we look at the matter the other way round, every step is intelligible. One evening around 1600 Donneโs boss, the lord keeper, was giving a dinner party for some other top legal figures and invited his secretary to read them a few of his poems afterward, before the music. Donne felt that this poem, put among some more romantic ones, would suit the old buffers very well, so long as the point of it was left out; as a porner they would like it, but they would feel positively insulted if told that the affair was innocent. So, while dressing for dinner and considering what to read, he drew a line through due to and wrote โmuch lessโ over the top, merely to remind himself on the occasion. He could speak these words so as to sound encouraging and conniving, though they might look bad to a reader; he had no intention of altering his poem permanently. Maybe he crossed out the addition next morning, leaving a complete bafflement for the copyists.it makes you gurgle at the effrontery and audacity of it, almost trolling, and the thing of it is, that i think his reading is (must be actually) the right one, which reverse engineering from that conclusion means he may well not be wrong in his scene (or if not the scene, the motivation for the emendation).
― Fizzles, Saturday, 24 October 2020 10:25 (three years ago) link
couple from the archive: pieces by john gregory dunne on policing in LA, written just after the king beating but before the uprising
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1991/10/10/law-disorder-in-los-angeles/https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1991/10/24/law-and-disorder-in-la-part-two/
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Saturday, 24 October 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link
also everything by freeman dyson is at least good fun, if not better
https://www.nybooks.com/search/?size=n_10_n&filters%5B0%5D%5Bfield%5D=author&filters%5B0%5D%5Bvalues%5D%5B0%5D=Freeman%20Dyson&filters%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=all
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Saturday, 24 October 2020 21:26 (three years ago) link
this was true of lots of people who wrote for the nyrb but most notable to me in dyson, perhaps because he lived so long -- the fucking ground they covered was just incredible. dyson would be like 'this one time i was having beers with niels bohr and enrico fermi . . .' yes please tell me everything about your personal interactions with a guy who won his nobel 90 years ago
― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 October 2020 21:58 (three years ago) link
Ha, I just dipped into his review of the James Gleick Newton biography and โWe knew that the fat young man was second in command to Sir Oswald Moseley in the British Union of Fascists, and if his friend Adolf had successfully invaded England he would probably have been our Gauleiter. Being well-brought-up English children, we listened to the fat young man politely and never showed him our contempt.When I was bringing in the harvest and listening to the fat young man, I did not know that he had been the owner of the Newton papers. I learned this two years later from the economist John Maynard Keynes.โ
― circles, Saturday, 24 October 2020 23:17 (three years ago) link
Lmao perfect
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Saturday, 24 October 2020 23:38 (three years ago) link
lol
― mookieproof, Sunday, 25 October 2020 02:10 (three years ago) link
Even as a long-term fan, I was beginning to find Patricia Lockwood insufferable in the LRB, but her piece on Nabokov in the new issue is simply delightful.
― Piedie Gimbel, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
I ended up sorta logging boring reactions to my read of the Charles Rosen archive (with links to the relevant pieces)
Terrific piece on Burton and 17th century prose, time to chase protestants:https://t.co/tMURjGOVXR— non consumiamo marx (@xyzzzz__) October 26, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 13 November 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
Are you still able to read NYRB pieces? For some reason I can't log on..
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 13 November 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
Is it really the โNew York Review of Each Otherโs Booksโ?
short answer: yes
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 April 2022 01:44 (one year ago) link
Oh my God? https://t.co/cMhQTen7ne pic.twitter.com/7b8yYqnz7p— Brandon (@blgtylr) May 20, 2023
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 May 2023 20:01 (eleven months ago) link
๐๐๐
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 20 May 2023 20:14 (eleven months ago) link
Just a little fight.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/12/22/defending-anthology/
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 25 April 2024 10:07 (two days ago) link
Searched it after I saw that they made up hours before Vendler passed away.
What an extraordinary, touching and generous exchange between Rita Dove and the dying Helen Vendler, a great critic whose loss we mourn. pic.twitter.com/MSH8bbwceu— Ian Duhig FRSL (@ianduhig) April 24, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 25 April 2024 10:08 (two days ago) link
me and snrub when i die
― mark s, Thursday, 25 April 2024 10:18 (two days ago) link
Lol
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 25 April 2024 12:06 (two days ago) link