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… written by Peter de Mendelssohn ended prematurely when he died in 1982. Two further chapters dealing with Mann in 1918 … Following the opening of Mann’s diaries in 1975 further, complete biographies have appeared. Mann began keeping a … His first novel, Buddenbrooks {published when he was but 26} seems at first sight dominated by the provincial reality …

… For the writer it is forever in the course of being studied through doing and new doing, and wouldn't last very … insight–that too is gone, displaced. Looking backward can't compete with looking forward with the story in progress–that … the doors behind me–you never dream the essentials can be simple again, within one story. But the vital …

… Lines of  Sight When a Literary Landscape Comes to Life Lisa Golightly, Flood Line 575, 2015.   “Lines … of Nepantla .”   T he town of Dunwich, once a thriving medieval port on England’s Suffolk Coast, has for centuries … by hostile terrain and hostile enforcers. The border was also a place that coursed through my own family history. As …

… For each of us, says Proust, there may be “certain bodies, certain callings, certain rhythms that are specially … frontier, taking the risk, disdaining the status quo, but also landing the movie deal. What happens to the American … offers two artist figures, both of whom were masks for competing aspects of Pound’s artistic identity: the effete …

… building in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. I have come with the intention of talking about an entirely … ritualized nature (“Absolutely. I am very much about rituals; it’s probably the lapsed Catholic in me.”). Both are … And it’s all very specific to where you are—​​the flows and eddies and microclimates and everything else. So it’s an …