GYULA KRUDY: SUNFLOWER SUNFLOWER is a novel of deep nostalgia, written in 1918 by the great Hungarian novelist, journalist and storyteller Gyula Krudy. Set in the Magyar homeland, it narrates in long meandering dreamlike passages a year in the life of its heroine, Eveline. Eveline lives in a divided world, that of cosmopolitan Budapest and [...]
Cara Hoffman’s new book, So Much Pretty, will be published shortly. She has a blog now too, which is in my links. I’ve known Cara for a long time. If you want to know about her, read her first Blog post. She is an old autodidactical pal, sure, but she has also been a supportive [...]
The serious scholarly activity of PhD poets, sane and measured as it is, or purports to be, is simply professionalism, ventriloquism, transvestism. In the arts there are no rational theses, just the dressed up rantings of hallucinating primitives. Poets are witch doctors in suits, shamans with TVs, witches who ride old Volvos instead of broomsticks. [...]
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