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Books in 2023

January 10, 2023 by sergneri 2 Comments

Last half of “Bleeding Edge” by Thomas Pynchon 01/06/2023 – Done – enjoyable. Checked out “Rising” by Elizabeth Rush from the library – good account the present impact of rising seas on a few areas in the world and a cautionary tale about the future. She’s an excellent writer, enjoyed it vary much. Started “White … [Read more…]

Posted in: Arts, Content, Thinking about Tagged: A Canticle for Leibowitz, Against the day, Albert and the Whale, American Midnight, Bleeding Edge, Coal wars : the future of energy and the fate of the planet, Don DeLillo, Elizabeth Rush, Herbert Gold, How Markets Fail, John Cassidy, Ka, Philip Hoare, Richard Martin, Roberto Colasso, Slow Learner, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Thomas Pynchon, Walter M. Miller Jr, White Noise

Roberto Calasso, Renaissance Man of Letters, Dies at 80

July 31, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In the NY Times: Roberto Calasso, Renaissance Man of Letters, Dies at 80 A Florentine by birth, he was a polymath as an author and publisher (Kafka, Verdic philosophy, Greek mythology) who reached a wide international readership. In “The Art of the Publisher,” his reflections on his decades in publishing, Mr. Calasso was diffident about … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, Obituaries, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: 2021, Adelphi Edizioni, ancient human consciousness, author, civilization, Greek mythology, Ka, Kafka, Milan, myths, polymath, publisher, rituals, Roberto Calasso, shared stories, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, translator, Verdic philosophy

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