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Listening to Stonehenge, and Other News
By
Dan Piepenbring
March 11, 2014
On the Shelf
Photo: The Stonehenge Stone Circle, via Flickr
George Saunders is the first to win
the new £40,000 Folio Prize
.
Joe McGinniss
is dead, at seventy-one.
Illustrations from
international editions of
Don Quixote
published in the quixotic sixties.
“As a teenager, I thought I was the only person
who revered
Geek Love
… Years later, when I was an editor at
The Paris Review
, I wrote to Dunn, and we became occasional pen pals.”
Stonehenge may have been a “
prehistoric glockenspiel
”; it’s made of “lithophones, or rocks that produce notes when struck.”
“His eyes flit without rest from television screen, to newspaper, to magazine, keeping him in
a sort of orgasm-without-release
through a series of teasing glimpses of shiny automobiles, shiny female bodies, and other sensuous surfaces.”
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