Posts Tagged “James Joyce”

Itchy Homo, or Why I Am So Terrible

by Travis Jeppesen on March 23, 2010

An expanded version of my earlier blog post on Baselitz, bad writing, and the making of my novel The Suiciders, can now be read at Open Democracy.

Baselitz & bad painting/the making of suiciders

by Travis Jeppesen on January 8, 2010

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about Georg Baselitz and his notion of “bad painting.” How this might correspond to writing, “bad writing.” To write badly on purpose. There is not much of a history to this anti-tradition in literature. (…)

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Of Kids and Parents

by Travis Jeppesen on August 31, 2008

Of Kids and Parents by Emil Hakl, translated from the Czech by Marek Tomin (Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 2008) Twisted Spoon’s latest publication, a translation of Emil Hakl’s Of Kids and Parents, is a simple novel, if any novel can (…)

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