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Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier (1915; click thru for free...

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:00:08 -0500

Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier (1915; click thru for free Google eBook)

Programming Note

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:57:00 -0500

Sincere apologies for the long absence, friends. First Paragraph is a one-human operation and that human has been crazy busy lately. Regular updates to return to this space by April 15. In the meantime, it’s crazy easy for you to submit a ¶ and for me to approve it, so keep things moving with your own favorite ¶s!

Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:53:00 -0500

CHAPTER ONE

THE ALASKA INTERIOR

April 27th, 1992

Greetings from Fairbanks! This is the last you shall hear from me Wayne.

Arrived here 2 days ago. It was very difficult to catch rides in the Yukon Territory. But I finally got here.

Please return all mail I receive to the sender. It might be a very long time before I return South. If this adventure proves fatal and you don’t ever hear from me again I want you to know you‘re a great man. I now walk into the wild. Alex.

POSTCARD RECEIVED BY WAYNE WESTERBERG

IN CARTHAGE, SOUTH DAKOTA

stewf: Moby Dick, the Arion Press edition | Typefaces: Goudy...

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:53:17 -0600

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Moby Dick, the Arion Press edition | Typefaces: Goudy Modern, Leviathan

Herman Melville, Moby Dick (1851)

Jane Austen, Emma (1815)

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:00:06 -0600

Jane Austen, Emma (1815)

Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (Vintage, 1992)

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:00:07 -0600

Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (Vintage, 1992)

Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm (1932)

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 09:08:08 -0600

Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm (1932)

Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood...

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:00:06 -0600

Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1975)

Ken Follett, The Man from St. Petersburg (1982)

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:40:03 -0600

Ken Follett, The Man from St. Petersburg (1982)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866, 19?? trans....

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:00:07 -0600

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866, 19?? trans. Constance Garnett)

Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, Inherit the Wind (1955)

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:00:06 -0600

Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, Inherit the Wind (1955)

Thomas Mann, Death in Venice (1912, 1995 trans. Stanley...

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:54:27 -0600

Thomas Mann, Death in Venice (1912, 1995 trans. Stanley Appelbaum)

"In reviewing a book, we respond artfully to a work of art in its own medium. We write words about..."

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:01:27 -0600

“In reviewing a book, we respond artfully to a work of art in its own medium. We write words about words - and then, as the conversation progresses, we write words about words about words about words. Our work is a kind of ground zero of textuality, in which one text converges on another text to create a third, hybrid, ultratext. This self-reflexiveness doesn’t make critical writing secondary or parasitic, as critics of the critics have said for centuries: it makes it complex and fascinating and exponentially exciting. It reminds me of Aristotle’s description of the mind of God, an apparatus so divinely perfect it can think only of itself: ‘Its thinking is a thinking on thinking.’”

- Sam Anderson, “Translating the Code Into Everyday Language,” The New York Times Book Review (Sunday, January 2, 2011)

"In reviewing a book, we respond artfully to a work of art in its own medium. We write words about..."

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:01:10 -0600

Paolo Coelho, The Alchemist (1988, 1993 trans. Alan Clarke)

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:02:29 -0600

Paolo Coelho, The Alchemist (1988, 1993 trans. Alan Clarke)

Paolo Coelho, The Alchemist (1988, 1993 trans. Alan Clarke)

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:02:29 -0600

Paolo Coelho, The Alchemist (1988, 1993 trans. Alan Clarke)

Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821)

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:02:07 -0600

Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821)

Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821)

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:02:07 -0600

Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821)

Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (1961)

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:05:06 -0600

Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (1961)

Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (1961)

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:05:06 -0600

Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (1961)