http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Gaitskill
The above link was suggested by the essay
of the previous post.
Friday, August 25, 2017
Midnight with Gaitskill
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Sunday, May 5, 2024
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
The Redford Dogma
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Saturday, August 19, 2023
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Waiting for the Low-Hanging Fruit
How many miles to Babylon?*
Three score miles and ten.
Can I get there by candle-light?**
Yes, and back again.
Mary Gaitskill's latest substack meditation —
"I am thinking of Susan Sontag, writer, philosopher,
political activist and some-time pain in the ass;
she went to Sarajevo during the siege in order to
put on a theatrical production of Waiting for Godot.
She didn’t get paid and none of the actors did either.
They rehearsed in the dark and performed by sparse
candlelight . . . ."
"How many bananas ?"
"Drei . . . or else Vier ."
See also the comedy writers of Elsevier —
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Ethical Barbenheimer:
G-Spot Author and Oppenheimer at Ethical Culture School
Related reading —
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Sunday, July 23, 2023
Weir’d
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Email Excerpt —
"The interview starts out with a discussion of 'the weird,' and all of the meanings
contained in that word, from the uncanny to the easily dismissed . . . ."
Commentary —
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Sunday, July 2, 2023
Thursday, June 15, 2023
Study in Red and Grey*
For the blue-black frame, a hat tip to Willard Motley.
See also the above date — 6 Nov 2021 — in this journal.
* See as well a Log24 search for Red and Gray .
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Monday, June 12, 2023
Follow the Writer Who Follows a Dream
Update of 10 PM the same evening —
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Monday, March 27, 2023
For Storyholics: Mug Shots
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Sunday, March 26, 2023
Glow and Afterglow
The March 20 date of a New Yorker story by
Mary Gaitskill suggests a review of that date here —
“GLOW,” starring Alison Brie —
“In the bluish light emanating from the TV,
EE looked at him, her eyes veiled.”
— Being There , by Jerzy Kosinski
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Agatha’s Question
"It was my first job; I hadn’t yet turned eighteen."
— Mary Gaitskill, "Minority Report," short story
in The New Yorker , March 20, 2023.
Gaitskill's story also contains a film reference that
accounts for the story's title —
"Then suddenly, randomly, I remembered. I was watching
a movie with Jason, the man who, with time, became my
husband. It was a movie about imprisoned clairvoyants
who predict murders before they happen. Sexless and
obedient, the clairvoyants lay in artificial sleep, nearly
submerged in pools of water, connected to a huge machine
monitored by vigilant detectives."
That film in this journal —
For further background, see The New Yorker piece
"Mary Gaitskill on Revisiting Her Story 'Secretary'."
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Sunday, November 20, 2022
Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Sure You Can.
Also by Parul Sehgal . . .
"I first met Gaitskill on an August afternoon at her apartment
in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She is beautiful, startlingly so —
straight-backed and contained, her body a wick of tensile energy,
her hair a silvery blond. She offered me sparkling water and
hunted down a lime — ‘'I can’t serve it to you naked,' she said . . . ."
— https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/magazine/
mary-gaitskill-and-the-life-unseen.html
As for "the life unseen" . . .
https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/reading/hexagrams/59-dispersing/
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Monday, December 17, 2018
The Cleft*
From this journal on October 18, 2018 —
"Show all" — Yes!
*Update to the above post from the morning after:
The title uses "cleft" rather than Gaitskill's term for the
pictured bifurcation, "crotch." This is in part because
the former yielded search results in this journal, while
the latter did not.
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Friday, November 20, 2015
Rhymes with Scary
"Gaitskill isn’t scary because she conjures monsters;
monsters, she points out, are almost always in fashion.
What makes her scary, and what makes her exciting,
is her ability to evoke the hidden life, the life unseen,
the life we don’t even know we are living. The critic
Greil Marcus, a champion of her work, calls her a
descendant of Nathaniel Hawthorne."
— "Mary Gaitskill and the Life Unseen,"
by Parul Sehgal
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Friday, August 22, 2014
The Bottom Line
The bottom three lines of an image search:
For a meditation on the bottom line, see Mary Gaitskill’s story
“The Agonized Face.” See also George C. Scott reciting from
the Scottish play in The Exorcist III.
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
Deep Craft
Stephanie Hlywak on author Mary Gaitskill (March 22, 2010)—
"In her most recent collection of short stories, Don’t Cry ,
now out in paperback, memory converges with present,
fantasy collides with reality, and sparse prose reveals deep craft."
Mary Gaitskill
See also Gaitskill in the Log24 post Plain Hunt Maximus,
Gaitskill on The Hunchback of Notre-Dame , and yesterday's
New York Times on the bells of Notre-Dame.
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
Thursday January 15, 2009
Gate
or, Everybody
Comes to Rick’s
(abstract version)
or, Everybody
Comes to Rick’s
(abstract version)
For Mary Gaitskill,
continued from
June 21, 2008:
This minimal art
is the basis of the
chess set image
from Tuesday:
Related images:
“The key is the
cocktail that begins
the proceedings.”
— Brian Harley,
Mate in Two Moves
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Saturday, June 21, 2008
Saturday June 21, 2008
For Mary Gaitskill
(See Eight is a Gate and
Faith, Doubt, Art, and
The New Yorker.)
A sructure from
today's previous entry:
|
Everyone comes to Rick's.
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Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Tuesday June 3, 2008
Faith, Doubt, Art
and The New Yorker
On Faith:
and The New Yorker
On Faith:
"God is the original conspiracy theory….
Among the varieties of Christian monotheism, none is more totalitarian, none lodges more radical claims for God's omnipotence, than Calvinism– and within America, the chief analogue of Calvinist theology, Puritanism. According to Calvin every particle of dust, every act, every thought, every creature is governed by the will of God, and yields clues to the divine plan."
— Scott Sanders, "Pynchon's Paranoid History"
On Doubt:
"a Puritan reflex of seeking other orders beyond the visible, also known as paranoia"
— Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics, 1995), p. 188
On Art:
The current annual fiction issue of The New Yorker has a section of apparently non-fictional memoirs titled "Faith and Doubt."
I suggest that faith and doubt are best reconciled by art– as in A Contrapuntal Theme and in the magazine's current online podcast of Mary Gaitskill reading a 1948 New Yorker story by Vladimir Nabokov.
For the text of the story, see "Signs and Symbols." For an excellent discussion of Nabokov's art, see "The Signs and Symbols in Nabokov's 'Signs and Symbols,'" by Alexander Dolinin.
Thursday, December 19, 2002
Thursday December 19, 2002
Plain Hunt Maximus
This midnight’s site music is in honor of Sinatra’s first recording session for Reprise on December 19, 1960 (which included “Ring-a-Ding-Ding”).
See also The Nine Tailors, by Dorothy Sayers, and this applet for devising your own peal of changes.
Those who prefer Disney may go to this web page and click on the title “The Bells of Notre Dame” for a different midi. For Mary Gaitskill‘s more mature approach to Victor Hugo’s classic, click here.
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