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By Benjamin Lytal. Dawn stamps the window and tells the blinds’ outline. Ten minutes later, sunlight taps the floor. The Matchbox gasps. Its windshield crystals; the air inside grows tight. You’ve been sitting in there—in a tiny toy car—all night long. Its doors, of course, do not open. 1982: black plastic injected, cools.
Curtains of Geese
Towards the end of his best-known book, Arctic Dreams (1986), after chapters on migratory routes, ice, and musk oxen, Barry Lopez recounts the legend of Saint Brendan, the sixth-century Irish monk who sailed north with his brethren in a leathern boat. The monks see an iceberg – ‘a crystal pillar’ – and row towards it, though it takes three days to reach, finally threading a tunnel in the berg that, in the setting sun, seems ‘like the eye of God’.
Benjamin Lytal reviews ‘Horizon’ by Barry Lopez · LRB 15 August 2019
Towards the end of his best-known book, Arctic Dreams (1986), after chapters on migratory routes, ice, and musk oxen, Barry Lopez recounts the legend of Saint Brendan, the sixth-century Irish monk who sailed north with his brethren in a leathern boat. The monks see an iceberg – ‘a crystal pillar’ – and row towards it, though it takes three days to reach, finally threading a tunnel in the berg that, in the setting sun, seems ‘like the eye of God’.
Benjamin Lytal reviews ‘The Selected Letters of Willa Cather’ edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout · LRB 20 February 2014
Getting the Undulation Benjamin Lytal The Selected Letters of Willa Cather edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout Knopf, 715 pp, £24.00, April 2013, ISBN 978 0 307 95930 0 In her work Willa Cather celebrated heroism; in her life she collected honorary degrees, told her publishers which typeface to use, and stayed out of politics. When Sinclair Lewis won the first American Nobel Prize he said she should have got it instead. She was read by H.L. Mencken with ‘increasing joy’.
Getting the Undulation
In her work Willa Cather celebrated heroism; in her life she collected honorary degrees, told her publishers which typeface to use, and stayed out of politics. When Sinclair Lewis won the first American Nobel Prize he said she should have got it instead. She was read by H.L. Mencken with ‘increasing joy’.
The Topography of the Familiar
The Topography of the Familiar Benjamin Lytal Share via Facebook Share via Twitter Copy link to clipboard Share via text message Someone who knows more about books than I do told me to read How German Is It (1979) by Walter Abish. I had never heard of it, but I immediately wanted it. What a title! I rushed right out—at lunch—and bought it. The cover featured a black-and-white photograph of a man on a horse.
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