Sunday Morning! What is Literature? A little on Sven Birkerts
We now interrupt your scheduled arrival for a brief existential crisis. (Or, maybe, it’s just like that for me.)
Category: Sunday
Sunday Morning! Richard Hambleton
If living in this world nearly overwhelmed Richard Hambleton, his paintings still have the power to nearly overwhelm this world.
Sunday Morning! “Twist: an American Girl” by Adele Bertei
In Adele Bertei’s novelistic memoir, a Dickensian waif survives a rough childhood and recreates herself as a queer “stud,” a poet, and a performer through the saving grace of music.
Sunday Morning! A Tale of Two Novels
A recent book on the art world did not exactly rock mine. But “Leaving Brooklyn” from 1989- that’s the one you’ve gotta read.
Sunday Morning! “Wild Strawberries”
If you haven’t seen a Bergman picture, I’d start with Wild Strawberries. It’s one of his most accessible masterworks, and its reputation has grown since its release 1957.
Sunday Morning! The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
In his highly lauded novel “The Underground Railroad,” Colson Whitehead, rewires the creaky old machinery of the novel and finds it still able of reaching surprising new depths.
Sunday Morning! “Katalin Street” by Magda Szabó
Magda Szabó published Katalin Street 20 years before The Door, and 10 years after being rehabilitated as a former “enemy of the state.”
Sunday Morning! “Chéri” and “La Fin de Chéri” by Colette
This seems to be how Colette wrote her masterpiece novellas: Chéri and The End of Chéri: she had these two characters in mind
Sunday Morning! “The Door” by Magda Szabó
They always judge you. On Hungarian writer Magda Szabó’s haunting novel about a housekeeper who loves and persecutes her employer in equal measure.
Sunday Morning! “What is Art?” by Leo Tolstoy
We’re not all Christian anarchists like Leo Tolstoy, but he’s not exactly wrong about how art eases our sense of isolation.
Sunday Morning! Leonora Carrington, the Complete Stories
Like fairy tales for mad children, the stories of Leonora Carrington are as packed with strangeness and complete imaginative freedom as her paintings.
Sunday! “Assembling a Black Counter Culture” by DeForrest Brown Jr.
The rich and detailed story of “Assembling a Black Counter Culture” and how Detroit gave the world techno music and an alternative vision of the future to escape the exhausted white one.
Sunday Morning! “Severance”
Finally, I write about a streaming series – I watched the streaming series “Severance,” a surreal depiction of four very likeable human rats in a very unstimulating corporate cage pushing buttons
Sunday Morning! Gord Lewis and “Teenage Head”
For a lot of Canadians, Gord Lewis played on the soundtrack of their youth. For me, he was the kind, quiet man in the bar with the radiant smile. All praise to the ones who showed us some kinda fun.
Sunday Morning! “Desperate Characters” by Paula Fox
Desperate Characters, a rediscovered classic about two people whose lives would be ideal, if they had any meaning.
Sunday Morning! “Pierre and Jean” by Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant’s classic novel is another in a long line of adulterous wife stories; but really, it’s about the deranging need to know.
Sunday Morning! “Salvage the Bones” by Jesmyn Ward
I wanted to write about Jesmyn Ward’s novel Salvage the Bones for a few reasons, including its recent challenge in North Carolina schools
Sunday Morning: “Bad Day at Black Rock” by John Sturges
Bad Day at Black Rock is one film that straddles genres: its setting is Western and its storyline is noir.
Sunday Morning! “Modern Love” by Constance DeJong
A recovered Constance DeJong novel from late 70s NYC that overflows its banks and exhausts all possibilities without exhausting the reader like many experimental novels do.
Sunday Morning! “The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead
In recent weeks, Colson Whitehead has become the writer who leaves me thinking “Man, how does he get his novels to go like that?!”
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