Selling the Self

Great readings by the Dickman twins(?) on Silliman's website today with an introduction by Kevin Young that one can watch here:
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/
Thanks Emory University for allowing the Post.

But on to the most recent novel to cross my desk: Important Artifacts and Personal Property (etc, etc -- read title above) by Leanne Sharpton. It's a novel designed as an auction catalogue that I'd seen before but had sort of dismissed as actually being an auction catalogue. We unearth the two characters via their objects, and particularly funny is the reading, Queneau, Empson, Robbe-Grillet. If you don't know them, I urge you to pick them up for that beach read -- plots move at light speed. Where is ambiguity in the age of documentation? Great job Leanne!!

Noticed: The Preparation of the Novel, lecture notes by Barthes.

Da Vinci?

Lots of announcements in the news as to whether a new Da Vinci Drawing has been discovered. I don't personally believe this is a da Vinci. The marks are all wrong, the lighting is not his, it looks like something drawing by a student or a right hander. Too much emphasis on features...something about it smells like a more contemporary copy.

"Who has snagged the comma of the mouth?" -- Sina Queyras