Yoko Tawada, interviewed by Monika Totten, on a related note (jstor.org/stable/27561312)

a few pages after that the reviewer posits that since for Jourdan writing was a tool for exploring what it meant to have come into being and how to live in the world and there die, he had no particular interest in seeing his work in print.

a paragon is made with an anonymous miniature in Strasbourg Bibliothéque nationale, where he's portrayed in a similar setting, but there's books and demons on the ground.

the year is far from being over but this is one of the best blog posts i've read in it. not an essay, not an article. capturing what in my head i've always perceived a blog to be: a box brimming with snippets of an author's life. so dazzling. thanks. robinrendle.com/notes/moving…

the moment they realize you brought a doggie bag home

bookshelves dreamed anew. the process emblematizes a volcano. now look at its eruptive core

why the grimness? it's rarely worth it. let's change track

the particular discomfort they display when you're just rearranging bookshelves and furniture and they think you're gonna move again