the gloomy eastern europeans--kafka & schulz, especially; gogol & turgenev; par lagerqvist (the dwarf); faulkner, flannery o'conner, donald barthleme, richarrd brautigan, jane austen, charlotte bronte, russell edson, ana hatherly (portuguese), some special editors, people i meet in passing, erotic moments of all kinds, cats who use my manuscripts to sleep on, celan, wallace stevens, yeats, william stafford, the UCB library, winnicott, leibniz, heidegger, wittgenstein, lots of philosophy of science, highway 5, little streets in Paris, weird industrial sections on the outskirts of town, friends, all my students, my son and the journey being a mother
Since I've always felt an affinity with Europe, I'm grateful for foreign rights sales toHeidegger's Glasses. So strange to have something that seemingly began with a title to travel to places I've never yet had a chance to visit--now including Brazil.
How does one sustain the life of an artist? And how is that different (if at all) from simply sustaining a life?I'll be talking about this with a choreographer, a director, and a dancer at CIIS this coming Saturday (the 13th)at the California Institute of Integral Studies (7-9). (See directions under Events.) Please come.
I would be very interested in knowing some of your favorite bookstores and why you like them. It would be great if you read A Venery of Books. It gives some information about the book business. But if you love a chain or online shopping, please tell us that too.