Listening to Stonehenge,Obsession Archives and Other News

By Dan Piepenbring

On the Shelf

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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 Quixotepublished 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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