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Vol. 2 / Issue 2

June  05, 2024

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"I Remember… (A Bay, Ten Acres, and an Old Farmhouse)," by Anastasia Walker. As with a lot of the essays I've written the past several years, the drafting of it led me to some unexpected revelations."

A Look Back in Time ... Paul Auster  (February 3, 1947 - April 30, 2024)

"The adroit self-consciousness of his writing made him our supreme post-modernist.​" - Ian McEwan

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And so, yes, read his books; his essays, but here, we offer his Paris Review interview: Paul Auster, The Art of Fiction No. 178, where he touches upon what it is to be an artist: "If you want to become an artist, you have to learn everything you possibly can and then you have to do everything you possibly can to forget it. And the things that you cannot forget will form the foundation of your work." On writing: "Slowly blundering my way toward consciousness."

Because his stance in front of the metafictional mirror is now frozen  ... 

“The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.”

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The Story of My Typewriter, Sam Messer

more art = a greater tolerance

more art = a greater tolerance

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Vol. 2 / Issue 1

January  04, 2024

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A review of Ben Shattuck's, Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau,  by Amanda Rioux.

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A young man wandering aimlessly, desperate to get lost: Belize to Guatemala, a bottle of rum in hand. "Livingston," by Alexander Hackett.

A Look Back in Time ... The collected essays of James Baldwin, 
                           Notes of a Native Son.

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February 26, 1958 Langston Hughes, in his review of Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son, wrote: "Few American writers handle words more effectively in the essay form than James Baldwin. As an essayist he is thought-provoking, tantalizing, irritating, abusing and amusing. And he uses words as the sea uses waves, to flow and beat, advance and retreat, rise and take a bow in disappearing." 

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"One of the wonders of coming back to Notes after such a long time is how “current” Baldwin is. That might sound like a cliché,  but in so

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In  his home in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France in 1979. Ralph Gatti/AFP/Getty Images

many instances in our lives we learn that some clichés are built on things solid and familiar and timeless. “Journey to Atlanta” is but one of a hundred examples in Notes."  — Edward P. Jones, June 29–July 5, 2012, Washington, D.C.  And as Juan Williams wrote: “The success of Baldwin’s effort as the witness is evidenced time and again by the people, black and white, gay and straight, famous and anonymous, whose humanity he unveiled in his writings. America and the literary world are far richer for his witness. The proof of a shared humanity across the divides of race, class and more is the testament that the preacher’s son, James Arthur Baldwin, has left us.”

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more art = a greater tolerance

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Vol. 1 / Issue 4

September 18, 2023

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Nathalie Guilbeault reviews Kathryn Brown Ramsperger latest novel, A Thousand Flying Things.

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Berlin Pride 2012, Discovering the Artist Gertrude Sandmann, an essay by Emily L Quint Freeman.

A Look Back in Time ... Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

One of Didion's best .... it's hard to tell, but yeah, she she was writing about 1967. "The center was not holding. It was a country of bankruptcy notices and public-auction announcements and commonplace reports of casual killings and misplaced children and abandoned homes and vandals who misspelled even the four-letter words they scrawled. It was a country in which families routinely disappeared, trailing bad checks and repossession papers. Adolescents drifted from city to torn city, sloughing off both the past and the future as snakes shed their skins, children who were never taught and would never now learn the games that had held the society together." - “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” was first published in the September 23, 1967 edition of The Saturday Evening Post. 

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

by Joan Didion

September 23, 1967

The Saturday Evening Post

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Vol. 1 / Issue 3

April 1, 2023

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"The way it is now, in my mind’s eye: I grapple on my hands and knees, searching a dusty room for a story." One of loss 2x. An essay by Anna Oberg.

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"Dual Realms" a review of Samara Garfinkle’s debut poetry collection by Mirabel.

A Look Back in Time ... Frank Sinatra Has a Cold

"In the winter of 1965, writer Gay Talese arrived in Los Angeles with an assignment from Esquire to profile Frank Sinatra. The legendary singer was approaching fifty, under the weather, out of sorts, and unwilling to be interviewed. The result, "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold," ran in April 1966 and became one of the most celebrated magazine stories ever published, a pioneering example of what came to be called New Journalism -- a work of rigorously faithful fact enlivened with the kind of vivid storytelling that had previously been reserved for fiction." - Esquire

Frank Sinatra Has a Cold

 

Esquire by Gay Talese

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April 1966​

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Vol. 1 / Issue 2

December 29, 2022

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A Look at Russia's War in Ukraine September 12 – December 18, 2022

The social media posts of former  ‘Soviet subject’ 

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A personal essay about an interdependent mother-daughter relationship complicated by secrets and resentment. "Locked Together, Locked Apart: Just Beyond My Reach" by Anna Stolley Persky.

A Look Back in Time ...

"Why the snake? That is, why is the unconscious so loathe to speak to us? Why the images, metaphors, pictures? Why the dreams, for that matter."

The Kekulé Problem

 

Where did language come from?

 

BY CORMAC MCCARTHY

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April 17, 2017​

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In this issue, where among other things, we look at language—the exploration of bilingualism and the benefits of it, we offer Cormac McCarthy's article from Nautilus magazine April 17, 2017, where he asks: "Where did language come from?" 

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more art = a greater tolerance

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Vol. 1 / Numéro 1

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ARRÊTER L'ALCOOL, unn extrait du livre à paraître de l'auteur Josip Novakovich,vignettes, Maison d'édition de Montréal, juin 2023. 

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Robert Coe, journaliste de Rolling Stone, du New Yorker, de Vanity Fair et de The Village Voice, explore 1974 à Big Sur, en Californie. Un extrait de son prochain livre,SURVIVANTS D'UN FUTUR qui ne s'est jamais produit,Une revue critique 1974 - 1994,  Maison d'édition de Montréal, 15 novembre 2022.

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COMME D'HABITUDE, un essai de Tamas Dobozy. "Chaque photographie émet le contraire du témoignage", écrit Tamas Dobozy dans son recueil de 21 essais, chacun basé sur une photographie de Karl Griffiths-Fulton, intitulée,Le ministère de la Perte.

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PAS DE PASSÉ,un extrait de DZ Stone

Willi et Kati Salcer étaient deux Juifs tchèques qui, adolescents, avaient été emportés par l'Holocauste en Hongrie et avaient respectivement survécu à Auschwitz et Mauthausen. Les Salcer sont tous les deux partis, mais je pense qu'ils seraient ravis quePas de passé est enseigné dans les cours collégiaux sur l'Holocauste et la littérature juive, et se trouve sur les étagères de plus de 500 bibliothèques universitaires. Éditeur, Valentin Mitchell.

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LE PETIT LIVRE QUE VOUS N'AVEZ PAS LU, MAIS DEVRIEZ-LE,  une critique de Christian Fennell sur Shiela Watson'sLe crochet double.Un livre écrit en 1959 qui se lit encore aujourd'hui comme s'il était écrit demain.

Un retour dans le temps...

Dans le but de préserver ce dont il faut se souvenir et d'en tirer des leçons.

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"Le Derby du Kentucky est décadent et dépravé"
Par Hunter S. Thompson
De chez Scanlan, juin 1970

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"J'étais sûr que c'était le dernier article que j'allais faire pour qui que ce soit", a déclaré Hunter S. Thompson dans une interview de 1974 avec Playboy. "Puis quand il est sorti, il y a eu un nombre considérable de lettres, d'appels téléphoniques, de félicitations, les gens l'ont qualifié de" grande percée dans le journalisme ".

Et j'ai pensé, 'Putain de merde, si je peux écrire comme ça et m'en tirer, pourquoi devrais-je continuer à essayer d'écrire comme le New York Times ?' C'était comme tomber dans une cage d'ascenseur et atterrir dans une piscine pleine de sirènes.

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