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...other than sneaking up on it with a winding story like Henry's and toylike nonsense characters like Beatrice and Virgil. But Beatrice and Virgil falls victim to its own paradox: speaking of the unspeakable is a dangerous game that a writer must play to lose. The trick, as Beckett might have said, lies in losing in just the right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shock the Monkey | 4/26/2010 | See Source »

Woolf and Beckett should not be considered as artists in pursuit of the same common goal, but according to Shields, the work of each nevertheless demonstrates certain aspects of the “reality” Shields demands in art: the replacement of traditional plot structure for the uninhibited emotional current of stream-of-consciousness narration in one and the fixation on the absurd in the other. However, Woolf, Beckett, and countless others who practiced these techniques wrote generations before “Reality Hunger” ever hit the shelves. To that end, what good is a manifesto...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shield's Modernist Manifesto Arrives a Few Decades Too Late | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

...weeks will drive business, the company is also offering an advanced product to the Major League Baseball clubs. For example, the pro tool provides detailed pitching data to the teams. If Derek Jeter wanted to know the speed and location of every ball that Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett threw to him on a 2-2 count with a man on first base, Bloomberg says it could provide this information in about 10 seconds. Bloomberg is also offering around-the-clock customer support to the teams. While a fantasy player can expect a response from Bloomberg within 24 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bloomberg's Financial Tools, Now for Baseball Geeks | 3/10/2010 | See Source »

...world of “Ergo” everything is permitted, Lind takes the liberty of mentioning the concept everywhere. From the most quotidian of conversations to the Leo’s deitific chants, the characters communicate via existential tropes from modern literature whose clearest source is Samuel Beckett...

Author: By Shijung Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Austrian Lind’s ‘Ergo’ a Labor of Post-War Melancholy | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...remedy this lack of critical respect, Klink, reading from D’Agata’s book, made use of an essay by Samuel Beckett...

Author: By Andrew Z. Lorey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Speaker Advocates for Essays as Art | 9/22/2009 | See Source »

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