July 2011
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“Gregor von Rezzori: [O]ne day I sat down and wrote a story. Somebody got hold of...”
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Three Percent has unearthed an interview with Gregor von Rezzori published in Bomb Magazine in 1988
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“There was no hope of compromise with boisterous, swaggering Toombs of Georgia,...”
– Reveille in Washington: 1860-1865 by Margaret Leech. The setting is Washington just before the Civil War, a time of even greater division between the two political parties than now.
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“Back you fly to your perch, ashamed as well as frustrated. Life is almost all...”
– Glenway Wescott, The Pilgrim Hawk (via invisiblestories)
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Interview with Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih...
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Help ex-Borders employees find work, make rent,... →
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WatchSandra and Paul Fierlinger talk about their process of animation and about JR Ackerley’s My Dog Tulip.* (Produced by WHYY Friday Arts.)
*”The book was beautifully written…—and it was all about dog poop.”
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“…On a busy street one quickly becomes a voyeur. An air of danger,...”
– Charles Simic, from Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell, coming out in paperback this September.
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“As I tell you the following story, you’ll have to permit me to mention myself...”
– Gregor von Rezzori, from An Ermine in Czernopol, translated by Philip Boehm
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