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Summoning Stein — feel the love
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February 3, 2013 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

…a while back on Facebook, when a writer friend said she had difficulty reading Stein after which many other chimed …
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Category: Review, Writerly Advice | Tags: Carl Van Vechten, facebook, gertrude stein, Ida, Lesbian, Lynne Tillman, New York Times, Susan Gibb, William H Gass
Aller avec Maigret
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October 1, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

Finished Simenon’s (first) Maigret detective novel: somehow I know that I read this one and many others about the inspector …
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Category: Commentary, Review, Writerly Advice | Tags: 1929, Crime, Detective, Georges Simenon, Lucia Joyce, Maigret, Mystery, paris
Kreusnach
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August 29, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

I picked a slim book up today. It caught my attention because on the pink dust jacket that loudly said …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Review | Tags: 100 days 2012, Dreyfus, Kreuznach, Proust, sebald, Zola
Finding Sera Marshall
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August 22, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

Met young British Turkish writer Sera Marshall in the Café Liebling in Berlin. According to her blog, Sera is ‘pretty …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Goings-on, Review | Tags: 100 days 2012, book, review, review forward, sera marshall, short truths
Marlowe and Me
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July 29, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

I spent all day reading Raymond Chandler as a matter of researching a new project (easy to guess: a detective …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Review, Writerly Advice | Tags: 100 days 2012, Dashiell Hammett, Humphrey Bogart, Lew Archer, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler, Ross MacDonald, Sam Spade, The Big Sleep
cosmic colors
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July 25, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

The aftermath of reading Carson McCuller’s “The Ballad Of the Sad Café” (my dictation software transcribes her name as ‘cosmic …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Review | Tags: 100 days 2012, Carson McCullers, Chattanooga Choo Choo, Hungarian, Seidenstücker, South, twins
the berlin summer sucks but beach sloth scores while an american grandmother blows up a beautiful buick
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July 23, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

Beach Sloth said: «I really love your work. Will you ever do any readings here in America?» — i replied: «hi, …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Gastarbeiter, Review | Tags: 100 days 2012, beach sloth, facebook, twitter
A Professional Good Man—Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
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December 10, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

Over the past few weeks, I’ve enjoyed Sinclair Lewis’ novel “Elmer Gantry” (as an audio book, beautifully read by Anthony …
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Category: Review, Writerly Advice | Tags: 1926, bad, Burt Lancaster, Elmer Gantry, good, preacher, religion, Sinclair Lewis, Style
I’m In Love And My Feet Are On Fire
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September 13, 2011 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

How strange and wonderful to discover a new (yet old) author & love him so much. “First Women In Love” …
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Category: Commentary, Review | Tags: adjective, adverb, Forster, Lawrence, love, wolf

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«At a party, I stood next to a bald guy with a beard who didn’t say anything. I noticed a nearby couple put their heads together and whisper while pointing at me. They were smiling so I went over and inquired if I could help them in any way. “No, not at all,” said the woman, “but listen, isn’t that Sir Salman Rushdie who stood next to you just now? We’re such fans.” The man nodded.»

Excerpt from: My Friend Salman Rushdie, in: Pachydermini Pack 4 (Turtleneck Press); donation dependent download.

«Tara, I look at us in that photo, taken so many years ago, I look at you sandwiched between Tom and me, with our left arms in casts, so ridiculous, it makes me think of music that is ridiculous also, music by Charles Ives with two bands playing against one another, or two melodies backpacking a third, or an instrument entering a dialog of two other instruments like a dangerous stranger. It makes me think of your musical voice and your rich hair, Tara, I’m thinking of you as my ship begins the landing process.»

Excerpt from: Friends, in: In Those Days We, available online at Issuu. Paperback version to appear.

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