Y
Y could be for Marguerite Young, whose work I have not read.
Y could be for Marguerite Young, whose work I have not read.
Are there writers whose second name starts with X? Yes, there are. I have not read their books.
4 oktober: vol zomer. Warm, 23 graden, korte mouwenweer. Flinke zuidoostenwind. Misschien was dit de mooiste dag van het jaar (qua weer?)
Marcusstraat – Weespertrekvaart (+ nieuwe fietspad) – Diemen – Stammerdijk – Driemond – kanaal – Indijkpad – Baambrugge – Loenersloot – Kerklaan – kanaal – Overholland – Nieuwersluis – Breukelen – Kortrijk – Gieltjesdorp – Haarzuilens – Wagendijk – Hollandsche Kade – Kamerik – Oortjespad – Teckop – Hollandsche Kade – Spengen – Geerkade – Demmerik – Botshol – Waver – Ouderkerk – Amstel – Marcusstraat
W is for David Foster Wallace. For rendering into perfect prose the pain of being human in these times of media and technology.
V is for William T. Vollmann. No contemporary prose writer matches the vision of William the Blind and his willingness to confront the dark.
U is for Updike? No. I have never liked the work of Updike. Actually, I have never managed to finish one novel by him.
T is for Mark Twain. Or T is for Henry David Thoreau. I can’t decide.
S is for … I don’t know. John Steinbeck, Gertrude Stein, Jacques Servin, Rebecca Solnit, Gilbert Sorrentino?