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Evan Dara’s “Biografia provisional de Mose Eakins”
Coming soon from Pálido Fuego…the Spanish translation of Evan Dara’s “Provisional Biography of Mose Eakins.” — read more
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Can We Talk About the Fireflies?
Guest Post by Gabe Cweigenberg Can we talk about the fireflies? How about Chomsky? What I mainly want to focus on is the relationship Chomsky has to the book. I guess you could say he’s one of the recurring characters. So, in the fifties, Chomsky introduced his concept of Universal Grammar. A Dara quote is… — read more
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The Lost Scrapbook – Ebook edition
*NEWS* As we celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Lost Scrapbook, we are beyond pleased to announce that Evan Dara's dazzling debut is now available—for the first time—as an eBook. If you've been unable to track it down in print, purchase it in pixels.https://t.co/Djcv6fcR22 pic.twitter.com/ts4yylWXjg — Evan Dara Affinity (@LincolnSelwyn) October 30, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js — read more
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Call for submissions: 25th anniversary of the Lost Scrapbook
As we prepare to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the publication of The Lost Scrapbook, we are encouraging readers and admirers of Evan Dara to share their thoughts and reflections on this monumental debut. We’ll be mixing these in with some of the other reviews that have accumulated over the years. Submissions of any kind—poems,… — read more
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Provisional Biography of Mose Eakins – Now in Portuguese!
We’ve got some good news to share with our #Portuguese readers: the new issue of Qorpus—which is published in Brasil—includes Lucas Lazzaretti’s translation of Evan Dara’s play, Provisional Biography of Mose Eakins. You can check it out here: https://t.co/8BMQZg0avu — Evan Dara Affinity (@LincolnSelwyn) July 21, 2020 Here’s a direct link to the PDF: https://t.co/ztb3ayKXQK… — read more
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Giving Voice: On the Work of Evan Dara
“Indeed, in the challenge they pose to the assumption that the conventional patterns define the novel as a form, Dara’s novels are arguably the most radically disruptive books in American fiction since, say, Gilbert Sorrentino in a work like Mulligan Stew” — read more
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Video Review of Evan Dara’s PROVISIONAL BIOGRAPHY OF MOSE EAKINS
Chris Via provides an introduction to Evan Dara’s Provisional Biography of Mose Eakins, a play Dara published in 2018. He also touches on his experience reading The Lost Scrapbook. — read more
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El Cuaderno Perdido Review
Here is a rough translation of the opening of Facundo Melillo’s review of El Cuaderno Perdido. “How to start writing about this book? If the words do not reach me. Dara is a unique writer who refers to others but knows only himself. There are echoes of Pynchon, DeLillo, Manuel Puig, William Gaddis, Beckett and in turn something… — read more
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The Lost Scrapbook – Goodreads Review
“For a book that has no discernible narrator and a multitude of anecdotal scenes which often times don’t resolve themselves and changes literary mid sentence this is a very readable book. Dara has drawn comparisons with Gaddis, especially Gaddis’ debut The Recognitions, but this book I believe is more comparable to Gaddis’ phenomenal JR. Ceaseless… — read more
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F is for Fake
Another penetrating review of Evan Dara's The Easy Chain (i.e, La cadena fácil via @palidofuego_ed), this time from @osbrox. https://t.co/DhybrDOxNR Apologies for the cyber translation, but here is the closer: "The exciting thing about The Easy Chain is that its author… — Evan Dara Affinity (@LincolnSelwyn) October 11, 2019 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js — read more
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