Considering the perfection of nature….
….politicians surely take up too much of our time.
Read More...Djelloul Marbrook
Literary, cultural and political dialogue
See and hear Far From Algiers poems, interview on Facebook Hear Djelloul read and talk about poetry at fishousepoems.org Brushstrokes and Glances, poems about paintings, painters and museums, will be published by Deerbrook Editions later this year Far From Algiers wins International Book Award
A new web site devoted to Djelloul's books and essays about the work of admired contemporaries has been launched djelloulmarbrook-books.com
Prakash Books of India will publish Djelloul's short novel, Artemisia's Wolf, soon—check here for alerts
Read The Modernists of Al Andalus, Djelloul's essay about medieval Andalusian poets in The Istanbul Literary Review
Look for Djelloul's essays about Admired Contemporaries— Barbarba Louise Ungar • Stuart Bartow • Patricia Carlin • Maggie Anderson • Toi Derricotte • David Hassler • Valerie Rouzeau • Tony Barnstone • Brian Turner • Joan I. Siegel • Will Nixon • Ravi Shankar • Deborah Poe • Brenda Shaughnessy • Michael Roy Meyerhofer • Eliot Khalil Wilson • Charles Wright • Tupac Shakur • Huddy Ledbetter • Martina Reisz Newberry • F. Daniel Rzicznek
Look for Djelloul's short story, Yo Sheherazade, and his poem, Bowl of Petals, in soon-to-be- published Issue No. 152 of Orbis, the British literary magazine
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September 02, 2010
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Ahem, Wall Street, if the shoe fits….
Wall Street feeling betrayed by Obama? A man’s friends don’t tell you much—you can be the new best friend of anyone who’s trying to swindle you—but a man’s enemies speak volumes. Take Barack Obama. The loonies and liars on the right would have you believe he’s a foreign Muslim (ooh, that’s supposed to be bad, [...]
Read More...Albert Camus the otherling
The pursuit of a legend by a clear-eyed lover (Camus, A Romance, Elizabeth Hawes, Grove Press, 2009, 319 pp) Albert Camus was 46 when he died in 1960. Elizabeth Hawes was 19. She was in love with him and had never met him. Or was it the idea of him? She would find out. And [...]
Read More...Do we change what we look at?
There is a theory that we change what we look at. The idea is put to hard use in movies where someone’s eyes become supernatural, turning green or red or perhaps sending out beams that penetrate steel and concrete. At a more mundane level we have all observed that the way others see us is [...]
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August 29, 2010
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Sniffing e-readers, alarming clerks
I’ve been sniffing e-readers. I don’t detect any significant difference in the fragrance of a Kindle compared to a Nook or iPad, but the covers seem to acquire olfactory personalities. Biologists say that in spite of our romantic notions about winsomeness our attractions to each other are largely governed by pheromones. We smell each other [...]
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