apropos of upcoming reading group with Samantha Rose Hill

An excerpt from THE ORANGE NOTEBOOKS by Susanna Crossman, recommended by Rachel Cantor

Starting October 13th

Some notes from my first forays into writing Musil's biography

I had a wonderful conversation with the first reader of my biography book draft last night.

"...looking for a place the individual can fit in in a deadened, shallow world."

Dispatch from the Writing Trenches

A piece of Musil's small prose from Thought Flights

"This gemlike stillness amid a never-halting movement"

Activists, Anarchists, Nihilists, Aesthetes: Musil and post WWI dreams of a New World

Listen now | From Klaus Amann's introduction to Literature and Politics

Small Prose from Thought Flights

I have been able to work the sausage machine, through which the novel must pass, more quickly .

The Great Man of Letters and his Worthy Rival

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

A very rough draft excerpt from the biography

A particularly nasty dig from Musil's notebooks

In my last post I wrote a bit about how Musil helped other writers in the years between WWI and WWII.

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

Musil's struggle for existence

In 1932, Musil asked Wolfdietrich Rasch what he thought about the reception of his books.

Since I just finished reading Euripides’ Bacchae in Greek, with help from Abby and Emer and The Catherin Project, it seemed an appropriate moment to share Musil’s thoughts on this great Greek writer.

Robert and Martha left Austria about five months after the Anschluss with the German Reich, carrying with them only the necessary manuscripts to continue writing the unfinished Man Without Qualities, ...