I liked Adam Gopnick’s essay on Pissarro quite a lot. The same issue of the New Yorker, which I guess I do like, has a poem after Lorca and an amusing piece on polyamory, pointing out that its mainstreaming isn’t at all countercultural–it’s been made to be about “family values” and so on. And there’s … More Camille Pissarro: Winter Sun

From reading Gruzinski on CDMX I realized that these Latvian artists who remind me of Mexican modernists may have been under direct influence of them. Eisenstein (¡Que viva México!) was of course captivated by it and was not just “Soviet” but Latvian, and many other Soviet artists congregated there in those days. How many brought … More Serge Gruzinski and Riga

I thought the most recent one was in 2019 but there’s a 2023 ebook that is really from a 2004 book, and there are many more. Sometimes I was asked for permission and sometimes I was not. I should really compile a whole list. Axé.

Do the other grant.Start Chrome River for both conferences.Write a letter of recommendation.Apply for Lyceum funding.Pay registration for both conferencesWrite a syllabus. [AND ANOTHER THE NEXT DAY]Write lectures, create lecture notes.Start a Moodle site. [AND ANOTHER THE NEXT DAY]Attend one meeting. [AND ANOTHER THE NEXT DAY]Attend one appointment. [AND ANOTHER THE NEXT DAY]Reserve hotels for … More Tomorrow I will

These are very important. Axé.

It’s the cotton quilt, and I want one. I am resisting buying it because I have bills to pay, but it is on the list. You can order them from Kyoto for 38,000 yen plus shipping, and I don’t know how much that is. But the item itself costs less than $300. That’s more fun … More Kakefuton

There is this book on Russian Montparnasse, and there is the writer Ekaterina V. Bakunina, who wrote The Body (1933) and Love Among Six. I’m in the wrong field. I would like to work on this and I’ve got my Baltic modernism project too, and I need Russian, Latvian, and Estonian, really. Recently I realized … More Ekaterina V. Bakunina

The latest book I’ve recycled is John Polt’s translation of Calvert Casey’s stories, with an introduction by Ilan Stavans, inscribed to my father. I recycled it because the spine was faced and I couldn’t see it in the shelf, and because then, when in the car, bleach from a leaking bottle got on it. I … More Calvert Casey and John Polt

I can now get electronically, or have in books: Alcibíades, Mirla. On Mariátegui, Amauta, vanguardias (article)Espejo Asturrizaga, Juan. César Vallejo. Itinerario del hombreHiggins, James. César Vallejo en su poesía (1989). (I liked Higgins when I finally met him as a person, and this seems like a good book)Monguió, Luis. César Vallejo (vida, obra, antología)Ortega, Julio. … More Vallejo Recycling

Sánchez Prado HistoryGET Gruzinski’s book and consider his order of thingsThought: Start with Cortés’ second letter, and with Dussell on Tenochtitlan 1492REPORTS ON: Popol Vuh, Chilam-Balam, Nezahuacóyotl, Cantares mexicanos, more? Tezozómoc?SCHOLARS: León-Portilla, Garibay, assign others? … or actually, just our book?Then: Visión de los vencidos AND Bernal Díaz: non-triumphal* important to note neither Spaniards nor … More Mexico course – draft