Monthly Archives: May 2016

Conversations with a Clown by Michael Welzenbach

Posted on May 29, 2016 by Mark Kerstetter

Conversations with a Clown, published in 1991, is the only novel by art critic Michael Welzanbach who died far too young in 2001. The novel concerns art critic Corry Peters who lives in Washington D.C., has profoundly ambivalent feelings about … Continue reading →

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The Silence of the Work

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Mark Kerstetter

Blanchot: The writer never knows if the work is done. What he has finished in one book, he begins again or destroys in another. ….although the artist is not capable of ending it, he is nevertheless capable of turning it … Continue reading →

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The Writing of the Disaster and Lucky

Posted on May 23, 2016 by Mark Kerstetter

Where power does not reign—nor initiative, nor the cutting edge of a decision—there, dying is living. There dying is the passivity of life—of life escaped from itself and confounded with the disaster of a time without present which we endure … Continue reading →

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An Exhortation to Silence: Comparing Mulholland Drive to The Blind Owl

Posted on May 15, 2016 by Mark Kerstetter

David lynch’s film Mulholland Drive and Sadegh Hedayat’s novel The Blind Owl are essentially the same story.

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