Ireland’s non-profit RTE Radio 1 recently interviewed poet and translator George Szirtes and Aengus Woods, a philosophy student at the New School, about W.G. Sebald. The eighteen minute conver… more →
Vertigo: Collecting & Reading W.G. SebaldTerry wrote 3 months ago: Ireland’s non-profit RTE Radio 1 recently interviewed poet and translator George Szirtes and … more →
Terry wrote 8 months ago: Grant Wood, February, 1941 (lithograph) I should have posted this a few days ago but somehow got di … more →
Terry wrote 8 months ago: From Wim Wenders’s film Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (The Goalie’s Anxiety at t … more →
Terry wrote 10 months ago: The inspiration for this book came from reading W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn, an atmosph … more →
Terry wrote 11 months ago: …no one could tell where the land ended and the sea began… Waterlog: Journeys Around an … more →
Terry wrote 1 year ago: Elective affinities…are the type of willful connections made among disparate objects which go … more →
Terry wrote 1 year ago: After a while, one begins to feel that there is absolutely nothing accidental or incidental in the … more →
Terry wrote 1 year ago: Tim Adams, writing for the Guardian Unlimited, recently did a profile of Robert Macfarlane, whose ne … more →
Terry wrote 1 year ago: Sometimes I seem to have a sixth sense about what new novels might have embedded photographs. Or m … more →
Terry wrote 1 year ago: A recurring theme of W.G. Sebald’s book The Rings of Saturn is the architecture of ruin. The … more →
Terry wrote 1 year ago: I credit Robin Kinross for pointing out that one image from W.G. Sebald’s book Die Ringe des … more →
Terry wrote 1 year ago: W.G. Sebald’s books present a number of challenges to book designers, not the least of which … more →
Terry wrote 1 year ago: I imagine that any self-respecting W.G. Sebald book collection will have to include a copy of the M … more →
Terry wrote 1 year ago: During the span of scarcely more than a decade, W.G. Sebald won numerous book and literary awards. … more →
Terry wrote 1 year ago: If ever there was a subject to be avoided by novelists, it ought to be writer’s block, a theme tha … more →
Terry wrote 1 year ago: The publication of Sebald’s second book of poems, For Years Now, came shortly after his death … more →
Terry wrote 1 year ago: In 1988, Sebald edited A Radical Stage: Theatre in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s, which was put out … more →
Terry wrote 1 year ago: The British artist Tacita Dean (b. 1965) happens to be one of my favorite contemporary artists. Win … more →