Kate and Medaya welcome essayist, Brian Dillon, author of Suppose a Sentence which offers close readings of 27 celebrated sentences from the likes of William Shakespeare, James Baldwin, John Ruskin, and Joan Didion. Brian opens the show with a passage from his introduction - an homage, or a paean perhaps, to two great American stylists of the late 20th century, Donald Barthelme and William Gass - and we are instantly transfixed by a hypnotic maze of rhythmic, self-referential language. Dillon revels in the infinite possibilities of this most basic component of expression; revealing the joys and perils of close reading and reverie.
Also, Claudio Lomnitz, author of Nuestra America: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation, returns to recommend On Kings by anthropologists David Graeber and Marshall Sahlins - and relate its lessons to the reign of Donald Trump.
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