January 11th, 2010 / 6:22 pm
Author Spotlight & Snippets
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“I am more proud of the books I have read than the books I have written.”   Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevdeo

12 Comments

  1. mike—

      “First and foremost, I think of myself as a reader.” — Borges

      being the 2nd epigraph to Markson’s Reader’s Block, which I have been re-reading yesterday & today. Much more could be said about Markson’s effacing of the reader/writer dichotomy, but don’t really have time to write that essay right now.

      Also:
      http://www.conversationalreading.com/2010/01/writers-vs-commentators.html

  2. mike—

      “First and foremost, I think of myself as a reader.” — Borges

      being the 2nd epigraph to Markson’s Reader’s Block, which I have been re-reading yesterday & today. Much more could be said about Markson’s effacing of the reader/writer dichotomy, but don’t really have time to write that essay right now.

      Also:
      http://www.conversationalreading.com/2010/01/writers-vs-commentators.html

  3. Sean—

      That’s a fucking provocative division, the writer/commentator graph. Should prob go ahead and post that alone and let people rip.

  4. Sean—

      That’s a fucking provocative division, the writer/commentator graph. Should prob go ahead and post that alone and let people rip.

  5. Lincoln—

      I must say that whole t ing seems kind of bizarre. Wouldn’t Proust make more sense as a commentator who talks about what has already existed and Borges be more of a model for a “creator” who invents things?

  6. Lincoln—

      I must say that whole t ing seems kind of bizarre. Wouldn’t Proust make more sense as a commentator who talks about what has already existed and Borges be more of a model for a “creator” who invents things?

  7. Rebekah Silverman—

      Agreed. Do that.

  8. Rebekah Silverman—

      Agreed. Do that.

  9. jereme—

      why be proud of either?

  10. jereme—

      why be proud of either?

  11. ZZZZZIPPP—

      Spoken in a TV-sitcom voice: “Jer-eeEeeme! Your depression knows no bounds!”

  12. ZZZZZIPPP—

      Spoken in a TV-sitcom voice: “Jer-eeEeeme! Your depression knows no bounds!”