Literary interlude
During the June days all classes and parties had united in the party of Order…
Glenn KennyJune 13, 2010
David Markson: some notes and selections
I first found David Markson without seeking him. I was thirteen, and reading a new…
Glenn KennyJune 6, 2010
Snakeskin
The Fugitive Kind, 1960 Wild at Heart, 1989The fact that Cage's performance in Wild at Heart…
Glenn KennyApril 19, 2010
Literary interlude
It had been nearly two years since Durtal had ceased to associate with other men…
Glenn KennyMarch 28, 2010
Literary interlude
You glance up at a third-floor window over a drug store where shadows play against…
Glenn KennyMarch 10, 2010
Stranger than fact: Nabokov's "The Assistant Producer" and Rohmer's "Triple Agent"
It is a notorious, and notoriously unresolved, tale of espionage: a one-time White Russian general,…
Glenn KennyJanuary 14, 2010
John Garfield, Thomas Pynchon, and a turkey...
...find out what ties them together in today's rather unusual (if I may say so…
Glenn KennySeptember 8, 2009
Literary interlude, with illustrations and notes
When he was about to be taken to his first movie he asked his mother…
Glenn KennySeptember 5, 2009
Literary interlude, with supplemental illustrations
Leo and Elmina were staying up on Sepulveda at the Skyhook Lodge, which did a…
Glenn KennyAugust 21, 2009
Literary interlude
So he would die as a disturbance. That was probably proper, but it was proper…
Glenn KennyJune 18, 2009