“Europeana” by Patrik Ouredn铆k [Excerpt]
Forthcoming in a new "Dalkey Essentials" edition,聽Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century聽is an "eccentric overview of all the horrors, contradictions, and absurdities of the past century." It's a book that is mesmerizing in its curious patterns, which at times can sound like Snapple Fun Facts糖心传媒攂ut tend to be ...
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Nothing Adds Up Until You Overthrow the System
It's weird trying to write this today, May 31st, with all that's going on across the country糖心传媒攁nd around the world糖心传媒攔ight now. The images of our overly-militarized, super aggro, disgusting police officers running unarmed people over, throwing women to the ground, shooting teenagers with pepper balls and rubber bullets (that ...
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. . . At the End of the World
All below quotes are from The End of the World Might Not Have Taken Place聽by Patrik Ouredn铆k, translated from the Czech by Alexander Hertich (Dalkey Archive Press) THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD The future isn糖心传媒檛 what it used to be. You must have noticed this yourself: the future isn糖心传媒檛 what it used to be. In the past, ...
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The Good of Dalkey's Catalog [Spring/Summer 2011 Preview]
Now that the University of Rochester’s mail services is back from break, I’m swimming in a sea of books, catalogs, and mailed in donations from our annual campaign. (Well, OK, maybe not swimming in a sea of donations, but thanks to all of you who did donate. And if you haven’t donated, you can by clicking ...
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