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From the cover of Albert Angelo<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n

One pleasure of living where I do is the giveaway table, where tenants leave unwanted CDs, cassettes, salt-and-pepper shakers, et cetera, and especially books. These tend to be romance novels or thrillers, but the other week someone left the second edition of August Kleinzahler\u2019s Cutty, One Rock<\/a><\/em>\u2014a book I\u2019d given away many times and had eventually forgotten to replace. My wife let me read the title essay aloud, even though I kept slipping into my version of a New Jersey accent (bad, bad). Then, maybe\u00a0three days later, on the same table, I found a copy of B. S. Johnson\u2019s 1964 novel Albert Angelo<\/a><\/em>. It was crazy\u2014I\u2019d been meaning to read B. S. Johnson for years. If I had come across any of his novels in a bookstore, I\u2019d have bought them. This one\u2019s about a beleaguered substitute teacher in a London slum, a subgenre (the bitter teacher novel) I especially enjoy. Obviously these books\u2014the old favorite and the object of curiosity\u2014have been two clicks away, but serendipity beats intention every time.\u00a0\u2014Lorin Stein\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The twentieth anniversary of Infinite Jest<\/em> reminded me of Wallace\u2019s tendency, in interviews, to invoke W. K. Wimsatt\u2019s famous intentional fallacy<\/a> as a kind of cross against the vampires who wanted to know, not unreasonably, why he\u2019d made certain choices in his fiction. I\u2019ve never understood why the intentional fallacy is so revered, and Michael Wood\u2019s essay in the last issue of the London Review of Books<\/em><\/a> has me questioning it anew. Wood writes on William Empson, a critic who was, in his lifetime, fiercely opposed to \u201cWimsatt\u2019s Law\u201d; Empson\u2019s work shows what good can come of actually daring to puzzle over an author\u2019s \u201cmoment of discovery.\u201d \u201cThere is no metaphysical reason,\u201d he wrote once, \u201cfor treating the intentions of an author as inherently unknowable\u201d\u2014and Wood adds that \u201cunderstanding literature is not different from understanding anything else.\u201d True, Empson\u2019s willingness to impute led to some odd criticism\u2014he speculated about which toys Yeats loved as a ten-year-old\u2014and Wood argues that in many ways he wasn\u2019t as opposed to Wimsatt and Barthes as he may have had us believe. But in his objections, Empson demonstrates that effective criticism is never beholden to dogma. \u2014Dan Piepenbring<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Empson, whose neck-beard game was strong.<\/p><\/div>\n

The room I liked best in the Museum of Modern Art\u2019s \u201cPicasso Sculpture\u201d exhibition, which I saw last weekend for its final showing, was the one with the\u00a0open-work-structured maquettes<\/a>\u2014monument proposals for the graveside of the artist\u2019s late friend, the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Walking around\u00a0them\u2014geometric marvels made of iron wire and sheet metal\u2014I thought of Ron Padgett\u2019s recent translations of Apollinaire in\u00a0Zone<\/a><\/em>. The selected poems are, like the sculptures, whimsical and bleak, biblical and mythological, traditional and experimental. There are \u201ccentaurs put out to stud\u201d and a prayer to the Holy Virgin; Apollinaire writes how the streets of Paris bleat with the sounds of shepherded cars.\u00a0His shorter poems are by far my favorite; among the lengthier, more embellished ones, they read like delightful, unexpected hiccups, and there\u2019s a matter-of-factness to them that I love. Here\u2019s Padgett\u2019s rendition of \u201cHotel\u201d: \u201cMy room looks like a cage \/ The sun sticks its arm through the window \/ But I who want to smoke and makes mirages \/ I light my cigarette with daylight \/ I don\u2019t want to work I want to smoke.\u201d \u2014Caitlin Youngquist<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pablo Picasso, Project for a Monument to Guillaume Apollinaire<\/i>, 1962. Image via the Museum of Modern Art<\/p><\/div>\n

The narrators in Diane Williams\u2019s story collection\u00a0Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine<\/a><\/em>\u2014whether they\u2019re doing dishes with canine ghosts or daydreaming about decapitating themselves with loaves of bread\u2014are a complicated bunch, and they offer little help in the way of being understood. Williams\u2019s compressed style means that a single story averages a page-and-a-half in length, forcing readers to engage with a fine-tooth comb. Tricks like the repetition of phonemes and non sequiturs warrant serious consideration; movement between one sentence and the next is frequently violent and unpredictable, and\u00a0Fine\u00a0<\/em>is most enjoyable if you submit to the whiplash. But these stories are more than absurd grammatical puzzles; they address subjects like failed marriages and suicide with surprising warmth. It\u2019s\u00a0fiction that uses every part of the animal. \u2014Daniel Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n

J Dilla\u2019s Donuts<\/a><\/em> turns ten this month, and with a mention in Hilton Als\u2019s\u00a0recent\u00a0New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0profile<\/a>\u00a0of Madlib, plus the anniversary of both Dilla\u2019s birth and death in the past week, this seemed a good time to reacquainte myself with it. Released three days before he passed in 2006, the album was in some ways a conventional coda, with its serrated midrange atmospherics, its vocal samples meticulously pitched and chopped. But\u00a0Donuts<\/em>\u00a0also brought something new: it found Dilla, who had a rare blood disorder, facing death frankly, with a blend of dread and cautious optimism. This is, after all, an album that begins with an outro and ends with an intro\u2014listen, too, to the way he selectively cuts a Jadakiss sample, turning \u201cit\u2019s that real\u201d into \u201cIs death real?\u201d A decade on.\u00a0Donuts\u00a0<\/em>is already a canonical record, but it\u00a0remains a vital listen, created by a talent with possibly the most immersive, unconventional, and expansive sense of rhythm in hip-hop history. \u2014Rakin Azfar<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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