Category Archives: notes

“almost no memory”

Recently, I bought The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, and have been reading in it. This is what I did: I read the table of contents first, and marked interesting-looking titles, for instance: • Mr. Burdoff’s Visit to Germany • … Continue reading

Posted in notes | 1 Comment

hinzugefügte Notizen

A sudden uptick in my usage of a Moleskine notebook I’ve been trying to fill since late November 2008, and likely due to the fact that I started reading (for realz) a library copy (which means no marginalia) of Infinite … Continue reading

Posted in notes | Leave a comment

the great cemeteries of light speed

Finding myself alone outside a palatial and modern house on top of a mountain in rural Canada (because my phone’s GPS showed me so). There is another phone on a ledge near me which leads me to believe that I … Continue reading

Posted in notes | Leave a comment

Alice Notley Notes

Alice Notley visited DU for a week. Here are my notes from her reading: an historic time of world wide massive immigration it will probably be all right jobs of small movements proofs vs. Prousts lecture: oblique dialogic impossible speech … Continue reading

Posted in notes | Leave a comment

blogosphere

“Milan Kundera wrote that one day, when everyone writes, nobody will listen.” —Dubravka Ugresic, from her essay, “The Aura of Glamour,” from her book Thank You for Not Reading.

Posted in notes, reading | Leave a comment

why not notes?

Taking a cue from Selah, who sent me some notes she took recently, I am going to use this space to post notes as well. Because why not? These from the 18th annual Virginia Woolf conference, held this last weekend … Continue reading

Posted in notes | Leave a comment