Author Archives: Heartwood
Heartwood 2:6 – Referential Reading: Romain Rolland
Books lead to other books, as any avid reader knows. Some more so than others. In EPL’s first “Everett Reads” program, back in 2004, we read Dai Sijie’s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. Given that the title alludes to another … Continue reading
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Heartwood 2:5 – Lumen
Lumen, originally published in 1872, is the first science fiction novel to address the concept of relativity (30 years before Einstein) and to describe possible life forms on other planets. The book is structured as five dialogues between Lumen, the spirit … Continue reading
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Heartwood 2:4 – Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort
Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort by Roger Martin du Gard (1881-1958) 777 pgs. Alfred Knopf, 2000. Originally published, 1983. Trans. by Luc Brébion and Timothy Crouse, 2000. A month or two after I’d read Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch, which I wrote up last year, I was … Continue reading
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Heartwood 2:3 – Spurious
“Somehow or another…you have to find your own path through contemporary culture. You have to dig your own burrow, following various transverse connections between things.” – Lars Iyer Sometimes a book will really set off the fireworks. Spurious, by Lars … Continue reading
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Heartwood 2:2 – Kelroy
The big literary celebration this year will be the bicentennial of Charles Dickens’ birth (Feb 7), but 2012 also marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the only novel by a little-known American author, Rebecca Rush. Her novel Kelroy was largely overlooked upon its … Continue reading
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Heartwood 2:1 – By the Sound
Edward Dorn’s By the Sound revolves around the day-to-day lives of two couples struggling to do more than just scrape by while living in the Skagit valley in 1958. There is some very fine writing about our lowland environment that is … Continue reading
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Heartwood 1:14 – Kepler’s Snowflake
The Six-Cornered Snowflake: a New Year’s Gift by Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) 150 pgs. Paul Dry Books, 2010. Originally pub 1611. Trans. by Jacques Bromberg. Johannes Kepler is best known for unveiling the elliptical orbits of the planets and other laws … Continue reading
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Heartwood 1:13 – The Street of Crocodiles
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz is an atmospheric and fantastic account of a boy living with his merchant family in a small town in Eastern Poland. The episodic chapters are sensuous explorations of a vividly realized time and place, viewed … Continue reading
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Heartwood 1:12 – The Messiah of Stockholm
Bruno Schulz was gunned down by an SS man in his hometown of Drohobycz on November 19, 1942. Schulz lived there quietly as a high school art teacher who secretly wrote fiction. He is now celebrated as one of Eastern … Continue reading
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Canyon Boy
Canyon Boy by Grace Edgington Jordan (1892-1985) 450 pgs. Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1960. If you’ve ever wondered what it might be like to live in a tiny rural town in the Northwest, Canyon Boy will give you a very good … Continue reading
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