September 2014 - Andrew Blackman

Reading

Clara’s Daughter by Meike Ziervogel

Authors and publishers generally live in different camps. They have their own associations, their own awards, their own complaints about the people in the…

Reading

A potential novel: In the Wolf’s Mouth by Adam Foulds

Reading Adam Foulds’s new novel In the Wolf’s Mouth, I was reminded of literary movements like Oulipo, which explored the concept of…

Reading³⁸²
Thinking¹⁹³
Literary events⁶⁵
Living⁴¹
The writing process³⁴
On the Holloway Road³¹
Published work²²
A Virtual Love¹⁴
Travel¹³
Uncategorized⁷

Andrew Blackman on Borges Marathon, Part 20: The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero: “Oh, thanks for the recommendation! Sounds like a wonderful book. It’s interesting that there’s a chapter on Borges even though…” Jun 26, 10:12
Marcie McCauley on Borges Marathon, Part 20: The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero: “I must have read this story, but I didn’t remember that they were the same person! (Maybe I will become…” Jun 25, 19:00
Andrew Blackman on The Reality of Anti-Fascism: “Yes, I suppose this was written shortly after the storming of the Capitol, which at the time I naively assumed…” Jun 25, 18:23
Gus Gonzalez on Man on Pink Corner: Borges Marathon, Part 8: “Borges takes the raw violence of a knife fight and turns it into a meditation on cowardice, performance, and myth-making.…” Jun 24, 21:54
Emma on The Reality of Anti-Fascism: “Written four years ago. How things have changed since this billet. We were in denial that the Agent Orange could…” Jun 23, 20:52

Andrew Blackman

Andrew Blackman

Andrew Blackman

Month: September 2014

Clara’s Daughter by Meike Ziervogel

A potential novel: In the Wolf’s Mouth by Adam Foulds

Reading³⁸²

Thinking¹⁹³

Literary events⁶⁵

Living⁴¹

The writing process³⁴

On the Holloway Road³¹

Published work²²

A Virtual Love¹⁴

Travel¹³

Uncategorized⁷

“Pandora in the Congo” by Albert Sanchez Pinol

Caine Prize for African Writing

The Pleasures of Exile by George Lamming