Recent Books:
Proust/Ruskin, On Reading
Hans Keilson, Comedy in a Minor Key:
  A New York Times Notable Book of 2010
  National Book Critics Circle Award finalist
Eva Braun (about about about about)
Kippenberger

Audio
Interview with me and Mrs Keilson
Interview on Rilke
Interview on Thoreau

Magazines
n+1 Occupy! gazette: Thoreau at Zuccotti Park
Bookforum: On Jean-Philippe Toussaint
London Review of Books: On Isaac Bashevis Singer
Harper's: On W.G. Sebald and Patti Smith

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