Authors: David Shields
204 | Roman Jakobson, “Linguistics and Poetics,” in The Discourse Reader , eds. Adam Jaworski and Nikolas Coupland |
205 | McElwee |
213 | Rough |
214 | Slater, Lying |
215 | John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman |
216 | Tad Friend, “Virtual Love,” New Yorker |
218 | Henry Grunwald, Salinger |
219 | A. O. Scott, “A Cock and Bull Story,” New York Times |
220 | Stephen Holden, “A Reprieve for Reality in New Crop of Films,” New York Times |
221 | Susan Buice, Four Eyed Monsters |
222 | The song “Compared to What,” written by Eugene McDaniels, was made famous via recording by Les McCann and Ed Harris at the Montreux Jazz Festival; that record sold more than a million copies. An antiwar and civil rights polemic, the song has recently been retooled by Chicago rapper Common and R & B singer Mya as a Coke commercial. |
223 | McElwee, Sherman’s March |
225 | V. S. Pritchett |
226 | R. P. Blackmur, The Expense of Greatness |
228 | Jenny Gage, interviewed by Heidi Julavits, Believer |
230 | Robin Hemley, “A Simple Metaphysics,” Conjunctions |
232 | No comment |
236 | McElwee, Cineaste interview |
242 | I was certain this was Frank Rich; I was astonished to find out it was Andrew O’Hehir, “The Long Goodbye,” Salon |
244 | Brian Christian, in conversation |
246 | Patrick Goldstein, “Lovesick Cruise et al. Is Bad Reality TV,” Los Angeles Times |
248 | Philip Gourevitch, quoted in Donadio |
251 | Grégoire Bouillier, The Mystery Guest |
252 | Michael Moore, 2003 Academy Award acceptance speech |
253 | Anonymous White House aide in first term of Bush 43’s administration, quoted in Ron Suskind, “Without a Doubt,” New York Times |
254 | Last three sentences: John Hodgman, “Text Message from the Road,” Stranger |
255–257 | Stacy Schiff, “The Interactive Truth,” New York Times |
258 | Lisa Page, letter to the editor, “In Fiction’s Defense,” New York Times |
259 | Emerson |
260 | Commonly attributed to Eliot; put together two statements, one by Eliot and one by Picasso, and you pretty much have it. |
261 | Picasso |
264 | Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, Rhythm Science |
265 | Lloyd Bradley, Bass Culture |
266 | Lee Perry, quoted in Bradley, This Is Reggae Music |
271 | Peter Mountford, “Alistair Wright,” unpublished manuscript |
273 | Jean-Luc Godard, in Cahiers du Cinéma, 1960–1968 , vol. 2, ed. Jim Hillier |
274 | Wikipedia entry on Sturtevant |
280 | Emerson |
287 | Brian Goedde, “Fake Fan,” Experience Music Project Annual Pop Music Conference |
288 | Lethem |
289 | Last sentence: Ralph Ellison, Collected Essays |
290 | Goethe |
291 | Emerson |
293 | Felicia R. Lee, “An Artist Releases a New Film After Paramount Blocks His First,” New York Times |
295 | Last sentence: Liz Robbins, “Artist Admits Using Other Photo for ‘Hope’ Poster,” New York Times |
297 | Charles Baxter, The Soul Thief |
298 | Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy |
299 | Borges, “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote” |
300 | Gibson |
304 | This isn’t me; it’s James Nugent. |
305 | Tony DiSanto, quoted in Laura Bly, “The Real Laguna Beach Disdains Its MTV Image,” USA Today |
306 | Donadio |
307 | E. L. Doctorow, quoted in Michiko Kakutani, “Do Facts and Fiction Mix?” New York Times; the parenthetical comment is mine (shocker). |
308 | Marshall |
310 | Steve Almond, Not That You Asked; last line: Peter Brooks, Realist Vision |
312 | James Joyce |
313 | Sebald |
314 | Donald Kuspit, “Collage: The Organizing Principle of Art in the Age of the Relativity of Art,” in Relativism in the Arts , ed. Betty Jean Craige |
315 | Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained |
316 | Kuspit |
317 | Ronald Sukenick, Out |
319 | Lance Olsen, 10:01 |
320 | M. H. Abrams and Jack Stillinger, eds., John Stuart Mill: Autobiography and Literary Essays |
323 | Djuna Barnes, Nightwood |
326 | Lorrie Moore, Self-Help |
329 | Thomas Sobchack and Vivian Carol Sobchack, An Introduction to Film |
332 | Picasso |
333 | Sounds to me like Julian Schnabel, but that might just be because of the broken dishes. |
335 | Attributed to Charlie Parker by Andrew Hill in Ben Ratliff, The Jazz Ear |
336 | Walter Pater, The Renaissance |
337 | Nicholson Baker, U and I |
338 | Sven Birkerts, American Energies |
339 | Nina Michelson, “Silence and Music,” unpublished manuscript |
340–341 | Simic |
342–343 | Michelson |
344 | Simic |
345 | Thomas Lux, “Triptych, Middle Panel Burning” |
346 | Deborah Eisenberg, “Resistance,” in Frank Conroy, ed., The Eleventh Draft |
348–349 | Michelson |
352 | Benjamin |
353 | Emerson |
354 | Olsen, “Notes Toward the Musicality of Creative Disjunction,” Symploke |
355 | Emerson |
356 | First sentence: Emerson; the rest: Goethe |
357 | Walter Murch, quoted in Michael Ondaatje and Walter Murch, The Conversations |
358 | Theodor Adorno |
359 | David Markson, Reader’s Block |
362 | Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm |
363 | Viktor Shklovsky, Theory of Prose |
364 | International Museum of Collage, Assemblage, and Construction ( http://collagemuseum.com/COLLAGE-signs-surfaces/index.html ) |
365 | Gopnik, “What Comes Naturally,” New Yorker |
366 | D’Agata, interviewed by Carey Smith, Collision |
368 | First sentence: Eliot, The Waste Land |
369 | Robert Dana, interviewed by Lowell Jaeger, Poets & Writers Magazine |
370 | Marcus |
372 | Ellen Bryant Voigt, “Narrative and Lyric,” Southern Review |
373 | Elvis Mitchell, “Fast Food, Fast Women,” New York Times |
374 | Svenja Soldovieri, in conversation |
376 | Shklovsky |
377 | David Mamet, “Hearing the Notes That Aren’t Played,” New York Times |
378 | Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading |
380 | Conversation between Janet Malcolm and David Salle, from her profile of him, “Forty-one False Starts,” New Yorker |
382 | Emerson |
383 | Nietzsche |
384 | D’Agata and Deborah Tall, “The Lyric Essay,” Seneca Review |
385 | Paul |
386 | D’Agata, in conversation |
388 | Lines 1 and 2: Rebecca Solnit, Eve Said to the Serpent; lines three to five, Dyer, Out of Sheer Rage; line 6: Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost |
389 | Malcolm, “The Silent Woman,” New Yorker |
390 | Ozick, introduction to Best American Essays 1998 |
391 | Phillip Lopate, The Art of the Personal Essay |
392 | Orwell |
393 | Doty |
396–397 , 399 | Hampl |
400 | Kierkegaard |
402 | Montaigne |
403 | Keats |
404 | Stuart Hampshire, quoted in Lopate |
405 | W. H. Auden, paraphrased and altered by Edward Hoagland |
406 | Lopate, interviewed by John Bennion, AWP Chronicle |
407 | Adorno |
408 | Robert Hass, interviewed by Susan Maxwell, University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop newsletter |
409 | D’Agata, The Next American Essay |
410 | Lopate |
412 | John Berger, Keeping a Rendezvous |
413 | D’Agata; “or the means …”: Réda Bensmaïa, The Barthes Effect |
414 | Fourth sentence: David Foster Wallace, “Host,” Atlantic Monthly |
416 | Gore Vidal, quoted in Lopate |
417 | David Richards, “The Minefields in Monologues,” New York Times |
418 | Greene |
421 | Wallace, interviewed by Laura Miller, Salon |
422 | Michel Leiris, Manhood |
423 | Nietzsche |
424 | Montaigne |
426 | E. M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel |
427 | Didion |
429 | Emerson |
430 | Alexander Smith, Dreamthorp |
431 | Lopate |