Terry Pitts (Vertigo)
@vertigoterry.bsky.social
Since 2007, I have written about W.G. Sebald, literature with embedded photographs, and literature at the challenging end of the spectrum. I write at https://sebald.wordpress.com/.
Want a novel on the challenging side with an independent voice? Caleb Klaces, Mr. Outside (Prototype Press) or Rebecca Grandsen, Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group (Tangerine Press). Mr. Outside comes with photos. sebald.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/r...
November 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Want a novel on the challenging side with an independent voice? Caleb Klaces, Mr. Outside (Prototype Press) or Rebecca Grandsen, Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group (Tangerine Press). Mr. Outside comes with photos. sebald.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/r...
In his novel "Tomás Nevinson," Javier Marías describes the expressions on the faces of people in a photograph shown on the next page. The idea of reading faces like this gets its public scientific stamp of approval from Charles Darwin in 1872. sebald.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/t...
November 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
In his novel "Tomás Nevinson," Javier Marías describes the expressions on the faces of people in a photograph shown on the next page. The idea of reading faces like this gets its public scientific stamp of approval from Charles Darwin in 1872. sebald.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/t...
Giorgio Agamben’s “Self-Portrait in the Studio” is utterly fascinating in so many ways. He uses his study as the locus for an intellectual memoir tracing the people, books & places that have been important to his thinking. Great photographs throughout.
August 19, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Giorgio Agamben’s “Self-Portrait in the Studio” is utterly fascinating in so many ways. He uses his study as the locus for an intellectual memoir tracing the people, books & places that have been important to his thinking. Great photographs throughout.
Mathias Énard's "Tell Them of Battles, Kings & Elephants" is not his best, but very readable. However, vol. 2 of Yoko Tawada's trilogy, "Suggested in the Stars" is mostly forgettable. It feels like she's lost her way. As they say on the news, details at: sebald.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/r...
August 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Mathias Énard's "Tell Them of Battles, Kings & Elephants" is not his best, but very readable. However, vol. 2 of Yoko Tawada's trilogy, "Suggested in the Stars" is mostly forgettable. It feels like she's lost her way. As they say on the news, details at: sebald.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/r...
Such a great author photo. Peter Handke playing Foosball on the rear jacket of Short Letter, Long Farewell (FSG, 1974). US first edition.
April 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Such a great author photo. Peter Handke playing Foosball on the rear jacket of Short Letter, Long Farewell (FSG, 1974). US first edition.
Sylee Gore's first book "Maximum Summer" (Nion Editions) gives us short, intimate, sometimes visceral poems about the first few months of the poet with her new child. The poems are arranged on the page like snapshots in an album. No photographs necessary.
April 10, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Sylee Gore's first book "Maximum Summer" (Nion Editions) gives us short, intimate, sometimes visceral poems about the first few months of the poet with her new child. The poems are arranged on the page like snapshots in an album. No photographs necessary.
Second half of my long review of W.G. Sebald's book of essays on Austrian literature Silent Catastrophes, translated by the terrific Jo Catling, is up now. Get the book! It's affordable! sebald.wordpress.com/2025/04/04/s...
April 6, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Second half of my long review of W.G. Sebald's book of essays on Austrian literature Silent Catastrophes, translated by the terrific Jo Catling, is up now. Get the book! It's affordable! sebald.wordpress.com/2025/04/04/s...
From Virginia Woolf's Diaries, September 10, 1918
January 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
From Virginia Woolf's Diaries, September 10, 1918
The 18 notable books I read in 2024, from Asiya Wadud's incandescent poetry which wants to become dance, to Jeremy Eicher's Time's Echo, on music composed to commemorate the Holocaust. Also: @saintsoftness.bsky.social, Yoko Ogawa & Cristina Rivera Garza. sebald.wordpress.com/2025/01/02/n...
January 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The 18 notable books I read in 2024, from Asiya Wadud's incandescent poetry which wants to become dance, to Jeremy Eicher's Time's Echo, on music composed to commemorate the Holocaust. Also: @saintsoftness.bsky.social, Yoko Ogawa & Cristina Rivera Garza. sebald.wordpress.com/2025/01/02/n...