“The obstacle became the path. Those unwritten and unwriteable books become part of — get folded into — a book one can write. This one.”
– Geoff Dyer, The Last Days of Roger Federer and Other Endings, 2022, p. 225
Becoming & Unbecoming
“Everything is in the process either of becoming or unbecoming, and it is the task of the artist not to make something new but to make something present.”
– James Greer, Bad Eminence, 2022
Everyone Sounds Like an Asshole in French
“I sound like an asshole in French. To be fair, everyone sounds like an asshole in French.”
– James Greer, Bad Eminence, 2022
The Withheld Work of Art
Don DeLillo, Mao II, 1991
[T]he withheld work of art is the only eloquence left.
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Newshour
Today, I chatted briefly about the defense of the French language on the BBC World Service‘s Newshour.
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