Wanting it All
Quoth Peter DeVries: ""My secret ambition is to sell a million copies of every book, and then also have a small, select cult of aficionados who look down on my mass audience."
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100 Most Recent Essays
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- Barbara Comyns: The Vet's Daughter
- J.M. Coetzee: Summertime
- Gabriel Josipovici: Everything Passes
- Joyce and the Past
- Michael Haneke: The White Ribbon
- John Williams: Butcher's Crossing
- Three Versions of Conservatism
- Jean Eustache: Mes petites amoureuses
- Dennis Potter: Blue Remembered Hills
- Isak Dinesen: The Dreamers
- Kleist on Speech and Thought
- Montaigne: Apology for Raymond Sebond
- Blumenberg and Husserl
- Teshigahara and Kobo Abe: The Man Without a Map
- John Williams: Augustus
- Hans Blumenberg: Former Reflections Enduring Doubt
- Further Last Thoughts on Roberto Bolano's 2666
- Last thoughts on Bolano's 2666
- Ferenc Karinthy: Metropole + Thomas Glavinic: Night Work
- Nikolai Leskov: The Enchanted Wanderer
- Nagisa Oshima: More Films
- Nagisa Oshima and Other Japanese New Wave Films
- Bessie Head: A Question of Power
- Attila Bartis: Tranquility
- More Notes on Roberto Bolano's 2666
- Notes on Roberto Bolaño: 2666
- An Interview with Lisa Samuels on Laura Riding and Poetry (Part 3)
- An Interview with Lisa Samuels on Laura Riding and Poetry (Part 2)
- An Interview with Lisa Samuels on Laura Riding and Poetry (Part 1)
- John Williams: Stoner
- Shchedrin: The Golovlyov Family
- Donald Philip Verene: Knowledge of Things Actual And Divine
- Southland Tales
- Faulkner's Light in August and Coetzee's Disgrace
- J.M. Coetzee: Diary of a Bad Year
- Ernst Cassirer on Art Public and Private
- P.F. Strawson: Freedom and Resentment
- More on Gene Wolfe
- Harry Partch: Delusion of the Fury
- Gene Wolfe: The Book of the New Sun
- Richard Hughes: A High Wind in Jamaica
- Sellars on Following a Rule
- Robert Walser: The Assistant
- Occurrences at Owl Creek Bridge: Beyond the Zeroes
- Carol Polsgrove on Ralph Ellison
- Grondin on Gadamer
- Occurrences at Owl Creek Bridge
- Richard Rorty: Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
- Richard Rorty, 1931-2007
- Jerry Fodor on Galen Strawson on Consciousness
- Gadamer on Hegel and Language
- Roberto Bolaño: Amulet
- Hegel and Wittgenstein
- Roberto Bolaño: The Savage Detectives
- The Fall and Romanticism
- Albert O. Hirschman: Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
- Cesar Aira: An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
- Hegel's Conservatism (and McGoohan's Too)
- Vladimir Sorokin: Ice
- The Basic Conservatism of Hegel
- Hegel and Stoicism
- Kafka: Diogenes
- Choose Your Own Philosophical Adventure #1: Escape from the Dialectic
- Miklos Jancso: The Lord's Lantern in Budapest
- Miklos Jancso: God Walks Backwards
- Miklos Jancso: Winter Wind (Sirokko)
- Fun with Consciousness
- Magdalena Tulli: Moving Parts
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal: An Incident...
- Joanna Russ: We Who Are About To... [Die]
- Finnegans Wake: The Book of Lists
- Ecumenicality
- David B.: Two Stories
- What's Missing from Finnegans Wake
- Laszlo Krasznahorkai: War and War
- The Fifth Horseman is Fear
- Christopher Priest: The Affirmation
- Inquest on Left-Brained Literature
- More Books on the (Finnegans) Wake
- Carl Schmitt
- Shohei Imamura 1926-2006
- The Books on the (Finnegans) Wake
- Gnostic Children's Books
- Finnegans Wake and Little, Big
- Reflections in/on Finnegans Wake
- Godard: Masculin-Feminin
- Dino Buzzati: The Tartar Steppe
- Ilya Khrzhanovsky: 4 (Chetyre)
- Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006)
- Anne Stevenson: In the Museum of Floating Bodies and Flammable Souls
- Hiroshi Teshigahara: The Face of Another
- Samuel Beckett: How It Is & Ping
- Elaine May: A New Leaf
- Bela Tarr: Satantango [3]
- J.M. Coetzee: Slow Man
- Harold Brodkey
- Bela Tarr: Satantango [2]
- Bela Tarr: Satantango
- Gabriel Josipovici: In a Hotel Garden
- Erich Auerbach: Mimesis 1
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- Waggish Reads Proust
- The Novel: 206,000 (first draft finished)
- The Novel, revised: 182,000 and done for now
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