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Entries from April 2017

Reading Alphonse Allais

April 30th, 2017 · Comments Off on Reading Alphonse Allais

The book blog Wuthering Expectations has commented on my translations of Alphonse Allais from time to time. You’ll probably want to read those posts, which you can do over here.

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Worthless Little Moments

April 16th, 2017 · Comments Off on Worthless Little Moments

A song about life’s blank spots. Here, as usual, is the beginning.

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Le Scat Noir 222

April 9th, 2017 · Comments Off on Le Scat Noir 222

Issue 222 of Le Scat Noir is now available from Black Scat Books. You can download it for free in the handy PDF format. This issue contains, among other things, another page of my musical instrument drawings and a selection from I Am Sarcey.

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I Am Sarcey

April 1st, 2017 · Comments Off on I Am Sarcey

Francisque Sarcey was Paris’s most celebrated critic in the 1890s, and one of its most conservative. He famously panned Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi as “a filthy fraud that deserves nothing but the silence of contempt,” and praised light, commercial fare. Not surprisingly, he became an object of derision for young poets and artists. Nobody took […]

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