Contingencies
To celebrate the sixty-fifth anniversary of Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style, New Directions is relaunching this classic text as an expanded edition. In addition to exercises by Queneau making...
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In 1947, the French writer Raymond Queneau wrote Exercises in Style, a collection of ninety-nine retellings of the same story, each in a different style. The plot: the narrator gets on a bus, witnesses...
View ArticleLet’s Fly Some Art to the Moon, and Other News
This platinum-engraved sapphire disk is going to the moon. Courtesy of the Moon Arts Project The following are things we’re sending to the moon: text messages between a husband and wife, thirty-three...
View ArticleEver Affectionately Yours
Two letters from Iris Murdoch. Letter to Raymond Queneau, October 29, 1949, Text below. Click to enlarge. To Raymond Queneau. St Anne’s Society Oxford [29 October 1949] I know you are very busy but...
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