May 2012
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Carlos Fuentes on Finnegans Wake: "a flood of...
“That James Joyce is indeed a black Irishman, wreaking a vengeance, even wilder than the I.R.A.’s, on the English language from within, invading the territory of its sanitary ego-presumptions with a flood of impure, dark languages flowing from the damned up sources of collective speech, savagely drowning the ego of the traditional speaker and depositing the property of words in...
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WatchMaurice Sendak to Stephen Colbert. “I don’t write for children. I write. And somebody says “that’s for children.”
Part 2 over here. On celebrity-penned children’s books: “All you need to do is get a popular illustrator who has a horrible sense of design, no taste for type, nothing about the aesthetics of what a picture book could look like, and you...
