The Works of Daniel Defoe.: With the Author's Preface, and an Introduction by G. H. Maynadier. V. 1
Wild Horses Of Fire (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Performa09--Week 1: Arto Lindsay's SOMEWHERE I READ , Guy Ben-Ner's Drop the Monkey and talk with Jon Kessler, Dexter Sinister's First/Last Newspaper and film showing of David Loeb Weiss's Farewell, Etaion Shrdlu , Tacita Dean's Craneway Event On Sunday, November 1st I went to Times Square where Guy Ben-Ner's Performa commissioned video, Drop the Monkey (2009), was being shown on one of the bright...
Alternative-Read.com (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
I have to make the family some lunch (quick sandwiches -- LOL) so, I am to start by listening to I Am Legend (S.F. Masterworks) by Richard Matheson on my iPod as I busy myself in the kitchen. Hope that counts! (Check out the fantastic vampire cover!) After that, the family are going out, and I am going to be left to my own devices until they return later this evening. Which is nice! I've loaded up...
Third Factory/Notes to Poetry (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
Charles Baudelaire, trans. Keith Waldrop | The Flowers of Evil | Wesleyan | 2006 Daniel DeFoe | Memoirs of a Cavalier | Shakespeare Head Press | 1928 Rachel Loden | Dick of the Dead | Ahsahta Press | 2009 Eric Hobsbawm | The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848 | Vintage | 1989 Fanny Howe | The Winter Sun: Notes on [...]
Exoskeleton (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
*ALICE NOTLEY*, Ivan Blatný, Genet, Tzara, Kathy Acker, Patti Smith, *THE VELVET UNDERGROUND*, Yoko Ono, Daniel Defoe, Virgil, Jacobean drama, Hannah Weiner, Antonin Artaud, Voltaire, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Aimé Césaire, Harryette Mullen, Kim Hyesoon, Hiromi Itō, Aase Berg, Huidobro, WONG KAR-WAI, GODARD, Jack Smith, Langston Hughes, ALLEN GINSBERG, Bolaño, Deleuze, Žižek,...
The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
The shinily relaunched Millions takes on a particularly ticklish question: What one novel would you assign to a student who might never read another ? • James Marcus on Nicholson Baker on Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year . • Bookride is on an interesting run about the cultural differences between anglophone and French antiquarian bookdealers: the French have "higher condition...
GeekDad (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009
July 31 is a surprisingly geeky day. Events: 1498 – On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad. 1588 – The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England. 1703 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing [...]
The Untrusted (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009
The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji happened on this date in 781. The city of Thessaloniki fell to the Arabs in 908. In 1703, Daniel Defoe was placed in a pillory for publication of the satirical pamphlet The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Church . According to legend, he was pelted with flowers. Operation Banner, the longest-running British Army operation...
Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 06/16/2009
T ranslated, that means I've had a full day writing entries for "Writers Gone Wild," and I'm off to make dinner (on my days off, I cook for the family). Three essays about Daniel DeFoe going to the pillory, Edith Wharton meeting F. Scott Fitzgerald and Dashiell Hammett going to prison for refusing to testify during the Red Scare. About a thousand words, which is very, very good. I did have...
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