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Literary Critic. Author, Beyond the Beyond the Blurb: On Critics and Criticism. Proprietor, The Reading Experience. https://www.readexperience.net

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Prologue to Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction This is the introduction, as it were, to a short book I will shortly make available entitled Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction.

"The subtitle of this book promises an “introduction” to Sorrentino’s work, but it is really more accurately an attempt to re-introduce a writer whose work arguably most purely embodies the practice of “experimental fiction” in postwar American writing." www.unbeatenpaths.net/p/prologue-t...

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Part 1 of Michael Silverblatt's two-part interview with Gilbert Sorrentino: www.kcrw.com/shows/bookwo...

19.02.2026 01:34 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Prologue to Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction This is the introduction, as it were, to a short book I will shortly make available entitled Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction.

I will be sharing my completed critical guide to the work of Gilbert Sorrentino, "Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction" through among other places my substack review, Unbeaten Paths. Subscribe here: www.unbeatenpaths.net/p/prologue-t...

15.02.2026 20:25 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Berlin film festival defends Wim Wenders after Arundhati Roy attacked ‘jaw-dropping’ comments Berlinale head says artists should not be pushed into soundbites after author quit over president’s remarks that film-makers should ‘stay out of politics’

To say that art should not be political is not at all "jaw-dropping." It may or may not be correct, but some artists have been saying it forever. To say that art must be political is jaw-dropping. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

16.02.2026 16:09 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

it’d been a few yrs since the show had produced new eps., but 1) bookworm was a truly important, mass media venue for in-depth discussion abt books, presided over by Silverblatt’s incredible spirit; 2) tho it sounds hyperbolic, his death may seem to mark the end of an era in USA (broadcast bk media)

16.02.2026 13:46 — 👍 32    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0
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Prologue to Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction This is the introduction, as it were, to a short book I will shortly make available entitled Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction.

I will be sharing my completed critical guide to the work of Gilbert Sorrentino, "Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction" through among other places my substack review, Unbeaten Paths. Subscribe here: www.unbeatenpaths.net/p/prologue-t...

15.02.2026 20:25 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I get the feeling that I am being incessantly urged -- almost bullied -- to read George Saunders' VIGIL because, you know, he's a really good person. That's as may be, but I do not find it a persuasive literary argument. It's a category error.
I liked his early stories before he became a saint.

10.02.2026 14:44 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
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Prologue to Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction (This is the introduction, as it were, to a short book I will shortly make available entitled Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction. As explained in the prologue, the book is an attempt both to intro…

"Sorrentino would like us to take delight in the formal variations he offers in each of his novels. In this sense, Sorrentino’s fiction has an affirmative purpose, but it is an affirmation of the capacity of art to renew itself through the exercise of imagination." readexperience.net/2026/01/31/p...

04.02.2026 15:11 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Prologue to Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction (This is the introduction, as it were, to a short book I will shortly make available entitled Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction. As explained in the prologue, the book is an attempt both to intro…

"Sorrentino would like us to take delight in the formal variations he offers in each of his novels. In this sense, Sorrentino’s fiction has an affirmative purpose, but it is an affirmation of the capacity of art to renew itself through the exercise of imagination." readexperience.net/2026/01/31/p...

04.02.2026 15:11 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Prologue to Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction This is the introduction, as it were, to a short book I will shortly make available entitled Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction.

"If the reader finishes this short book believing that Sorrentino’s project as a writer has been coherently elucidated and that the aesthetic achievement of individual works of his has been cogently described, I would consider my effort a success." www.unbeatenpaths.net/p/prologue-t...

03.02.2026 15:06 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Prologue to Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction This is the introduction, as it were, to a short book I will shortly make available entitled Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction.

"If the reader finishes this short book believing that Sorrentino’s project as a writer has been coherently elucidated and that the aesthetic achievement of individual works of his has been cogently described, I would consider my effort a success." www.unbeatenpaths.net/p/prologue-t...

03.02.2026 15:06 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Not currently planning on that.

03.02.2026 14:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Prologue to Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction (This is the introduction, as it were, to a short book I will shortly make available entitled Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction. As explained in the prologue, the book is an attempt both to intro…

Available at The Reading Experience: readexperience.net/2026/01/31/p...

02.02.2026 15:05 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Prologue to Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction (This is the introduction, as it were, to a short book I will shortly make available entitled Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction. As explained in the prologue, the book is an attempt both to intro…

Available at The Reading Experience: readexperience.net/2026/01/31/p...

02.02.2026 15:05 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Prologue to Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction This is the introduction, as it were, to a short book I will shortly make available entitled Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction.

Now available:
www.unbeatenpaths.net/p/prologue-t...

01.02.2026 19:50 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Don Lemon arrested by federal authorities after protest at Minnesota church service Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a post Friday on X that Lemon was arrested, as were three others, "in connection with the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota."

They're coming after you, journalists. You didn't think it would happen, did you? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

30.01.2026 19:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Catherine O'Hara Dead at 71 Catherine O'Hara -- famous for her work in "Schitt's Creek," "Home Alone," and "Best In Show" -- is dead ... TMZ has learned.

RIP, Catherine O'Hara. Always the highlight of SCTV. www.tmz.com/2026/01/30/c...

30.01.2026 19:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Can Dems Push MAGA and Its ICE Army Into a Disorganized Retreat? Big public and political fights often have the dynamics of military confrontations....

Josh Marshall
"You [Trump admin] tell us how you’re going to clean up your mess and the chaos and bloodshed you’ve caused. I don’t think Democrats need to do Republicans’ work for them. It’s a moment when the job of the opposition is simply to say, No!" talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/can-d...

29.01.2026 18:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

should always be

25.01.2026 19:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The murder of Alex Pretti was not a "hearbreaking tragedy." It was a capital crime and should be always be called that.

25.01.2026 19:27 — 👍 19    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

It's kind of pathetic when Bill Kristol is being more militant about injustice than the leaders of the Democratic party.

25.01.2026 16:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Part of me is ashamed to be an American right now, and part of me is in awe of the moral courage being shown by the people of Minneapolis.

24.01.2026 19:26 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

The Republican position now appears to be that you have a constitutional right to openly carry a gun in public, unless you do so while expressing a view that the government dislikes, in which case the secret police can shoot you to death on the spot.

24.01.2026 18:45 — 👍 3643    🔁 1205    💬 66    📌 29

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now):

-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.

You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

24.01.2026 17:07 — 👍 17654    🔁 5221    💬 282    📌 203

Need unambiguous statements of support by everyone — from Walz and Klobuchar and Smith to Schumer and Jeffries— for state and city law enforcement standing up to lawless DHS.

24.01.2026 17:00 — 👍 2212    🔁 434    💬 61    📌 25

Here is the Table of Contents for Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction. The book's organization blends a quasi-chronological survey of Sorrentino's career with a more thematic presentation of his varied identities as a writer. readexperience.net/2026/01/19/g...

19.01.2026 20:10 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Here is the Table of Contents for Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction. The book's organization blends a quasi-chronological survey of Sorrentino's career with a more thematic presentation of his varied identities as a writer. readexperience.net/2026/01/19/g...

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Grateful Dead Guitarist Bob Weir Has Died Grateful Dead co-founding guitarist Bob Weir has died at age 78.

RIP, Bob Weir. Quite a shock for Grateful Dead fans. www.jambase.com/article/bob-...

11.01.2026 00:52 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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Epilogue to Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction (This is the final chapter of my upcoming book, Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction. I do not currently have a publisher, so, tentatively, it will be available as a free ebook or pdf. More info to …

My short critical book, Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction, is nearing completion. As of now, it will be available as a free ebook or pdf. Here is the final section, reflecting on Sorrentino's work by considering Splendide-Hotel (1974):
readexperience.net/2026/01/04/e...

05.01.2026 15:08 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0