Word: fantasts
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...have the audacity to put between quotation marks. " 'Now if I were Norman Mailer,' said the author of Portnoy's Complaint, 'I'd be up in the ring after the first bout, kicking away at the boxers in golf shoes.' " Whatever tin-eared fantast fed you that one should at least have told you to include in your story the fact that in Thailand the boxers fight principally with theii feet. As it stands, the quotation is not only predictably without any relation to fact, but somewhat lacking in point...
...this and every issue--except the fifth, which relied on a short story--has been a significant interview with a prominent writer (such as W. H. Auden or John Barth). Carter Wilson's superbly conducted discussion with Borges is perhaps the most enlightening piece published about the Argentine fantast...
...scholarly without being bookish. (He deprecates "Cyclical Light," an early poem, as "priggish." "Of course I was young when I wrote it. I had to work in all those Greek names.") The broad background frames but never inhibits his intelligent, singular and personal world. Robert Lowell, introducing the fantast at a reading Wednesday night, called Borges' work amid that of other writers "always an oasis in a sea of competence...
...Complete Ronald Firbank. Duchesses, bishops, and clockwork nightingales move languidly among the silver cobwebs of the oddly fascinating world created by this ineffable British fantast...
...Complete Ronald Firbank. Duchesses, bishops, and clockwork nightingales move languidly among the silver cobwebs of the oddly fascinating world created by this ineffable British fantast...