Thursday, November 29, 2012

Against Creativity

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The below was a “provocation” I delivered at the conference NonfictionNow held last weekend in Melbourne for a panel (dubiously) ...
Saturday, August 18, 2012

My Struggle (Vol. 1) By Karl Ove Knausgaard

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The first volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle is simultaneously very easy and virtually impossible to do justice to in a bo...
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Friday, August 3, 2012

'Graham Greene Is The World's Greatest Second-Rate Novelist'

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Below is a video of a talk I gave the other month on Graham Greene's The Quiet American, a book that I am ultimately not fond of (for r...
Monday, July 30, 2012

'The Problem with the New Yorker Story Is That It's Too Well Written'

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My friend Adam Rivett drew my attention to these totally awesome Bookworm interviews with Gilbert Sorrentino, who is/was one of my heroes (a...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

On the Arriere-Garde

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'Since the end of the 19th Century then, literature has been living under the sign of anachronism: it does not feel in sync anymore, eit...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

On the Figure of the Aporia

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“Why this language, which does not fortuitously resemble that of negative theology? How to justify the choice of negative form (ap...
Monday, January 2, 2012

Gerald Murnane's New Novel

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So, according to an annual list published by the Fairfax papers here in Australia, Gerald Murnane's new novel, entitled A History of Bo...
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