Greg Gerke / Socrates on the Beach
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In the Suavity of the Rock (novel)now available with @thisissplice https://tinyurl.com/3dthp3u2 Editor: http://socratesonthebeach.com
The next excerpt from the Life and Time in Art book. The Hard Rain of Henry James. greg-gerke.medium.com/the-hard-rain-…
Very grateful to have this piece in one of the best journals: Liberties. Thank you to @Celestemarcus3 @readliberties libertiesjournal.com/articles/night…
Very grateful to have this piece in one of the best journals: Liberties. Thank you to @Celestemarcus3 @readliberties libertiesjournal.com/articles/night…
I've read a quarter of Shigehiko Hasumi's wonderful Ozu book. Here's a good capsulation of his method and the "method" I prefer in criticism by Richard I. Suchenski. (lolajournal.com/7/hasumi_suche…) And here is Hasumi himself on Ozu's angry women: rouge.com.au/4/ozu_women.ht…
"But assimilating literature and art to straightforwardly intellectual endeavors, turning them into knowledge-seeking discourses like the rest, fails to acknowledge that art is rarely compelling for its assertions."
On literature's vexed uses in academe, and the disappearance of the aesthetic interest as such. Link in reply.
Very grateful to have this piece in one of the best journals: Liberties. Thank you to @Celestemarcus3 @readliberties libertiesjournal.com/articles/night…
Found a monolith but I’m not going to tell anyone except you.
"With this adaptation, Duras offers not simply a version of Henry James’ novella, but a portrayal of the structural condition it implies; a dirge for the might-have-been." Read Christina Tudor-Sideri's (@dreamsofbeing_) notes for this performance: theaterofthematters.com/texts/how-soft…
The Theater of the Matters presents… Marguerite Duras’ THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE: A Theatrical Reading Join us July 25 for a performance of Duras’ 1962 stage rendition of the Henry James story, newly translated in English (for the first time) and adapted by All Invention Theater.
History of My Books--this time I've seriously read significant portions of each of these in the last three days.
If you are in New York on July 25, don’t miss this one-night-only theatrical reading of M. Duras’ stage adaptation of The Beast in the Jungle, preceded by a screening of Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver). Meanwhile, you can read the accompanying text I wrote: theaterofthematters.com/texts/how-soft…
At night, in Bucharest, with Alina’s Heresies, in this, the summer of my newfound allergy to my beloved linden trees, having previously lost the wind to neuralgia, and caffeine to the whims of autoimmunity. Alas. All is well, “lindens line the streets of my ink.”
The Theater of the Matters presents… Marguerite Duras’ THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE: A Theatrical Reading Join us July 25 for a performance of Duras’ 1962 stage rendition of the Henry James story, newly translated in English (for the first time) and adapted by All Invention Theater.