Windy Arbours PA

by Higgins,Aidan

• ISBN13: 9781564783912
• ISBN10: 156478391X
• Edition: 00
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2005-06-17
• Publisher: JOHN MUIR

Summary

In addition to his novels and stories, Aidan Higgins--one of Ireland's most respected contemporary writers--has written a large body of criticism over his career. Windy Arbours collects pieces he wrote between 1970-1990 and is the first collection of his reviews to be published. Incredibly well-read, Higgins covers writers from around the world, from relatively well-known authors such as William Faulkner, Djuna Barnes, and Jorge Luis Borges, to more obscure writers such as Ralph Cusack and Dorothy Nelson. Serving as an informative guidebook about contemporary fiction, Higgins's criticism is always insightful, and oft-times entertainingly acerbic.

Table of Contents

Part I: Ilium Falling
1. Below Memphis Junction	3	(4)
2. Ilium Falling	7	(4)
3. Liebestod	11	(4)
4. Djuna	15	(3)
5. Kin	18	(2)
6. Railroads	20	(4)
7. Blacklist	24	(2)
8. Wing Shot	26	(3)
9. Gonzo	29	(2)
10. Lunar	31	(2)
11. Barthelme	33	(2)
12. Dandy	35	(3)
13. Privilege	38	(2)
14. Americana	40	(3)
15. Bonafides	43	(2)
16. Tosh	45	(2)
17. Los Angeles Dick	47	(3)
18. Voice from the Bronx Laundry	50	(3)
19. Boz & Co.	53	(2)
20. The Heavy Bear	55	(4)
21. Gigantic Knockers	59	(3)
22. Seeing Big	62	(3)
23. Hope Deferred	65	(3)
24. Doctored Letters	68	(2)
25. Peanuts	70	(3)
26. A Whispering Gush	73	(3)
27. In the Land of Glut	76	(2)
28. Tales from the Killing Ground	78	(3)
29. The People of the Spirit	81	(3)
30. Natchez Trace	84	(2)
31. In the American Grain	86	(2)
32. Lynching in the Everglades	88	(2)
33. Fresh Horrors	90	(2)
34. Narco	92	(5)
Part II: Recurring Refrain
35. Down the Line	97	(3)
36. Outlandish Places	100	(2)
37. Loot	102	(2)
38. By the Damascus Stream	104	(4)
39. Dark Rites	108	(2)
40. Yangtze Bends	110	(2)
41. Dinner at Lipp's	112	(3)
42. Soldiers' Pay	115	(3)
43. The Vapours	118	(2)
44. Dry Thoughts in a Dry Season	120	(3)
45. Twilight in the Saal	123	(3)
46. Sappho Sc Co.	126	(2)
47. That Swine Hardcastle	128	(3)
48. Down There in Bohemia	131	(2)
49. Non-Lives	133	(3)
50. How Utterly Maddening!	136	(2)
51. Connubial Bliss	138	(2)
52. Glowing Cinders	140	(2)
53. Malignant Crabs	142	(3)
54. Cyril & Co.	145	(4)
55. On Storm King Mountain	149	(1)
56. The Faceless Creator	150	(6)
57. The Bombing Analyst	156	(2)
58. Copping Out	158	(2)
59. Lengthening Shadows	160	(2)
60. Pinter's Proust	162	(3)
61. Gnarled Oak	165	(2)
62. Eighty Years On	167	(2)
63. Zones of Insecurity	169	(3)
64. Grocer's Wine	172	(2)
65. Vinegar Dressing	174	(2)
66. Frothy Apophthegm	176	(3)
67. Infernal City	179	(2)
68. Anthony Burgess at the London Savoy	181	(6)
Part III: The Small Neurosis
69. Fire in the Hills	187	(2)
70. Fires from Gehenna	189	(3)
71. Cantraps of Fermented Words	192	(2)
72. Uric Acid	194	(2)
73. Stratafiction	196	(3)
74. A Purple Glow	199	(3)
75. The Blackrock Cosmology	202	(3)
76. The Bosky Dew	205	(5)
77. Glencree Knackwurst	210	(2)
78. The Corn Is Green	212	(2)
79. Blood Brothers	214	(3)
80. Buck Mulligan	217	(3)
81. Recurring Refrain	220	(2)
82. Cark	222	(1)
83. Poolbeg Flashers	223	(3)
84. Paradiddle and Paradigm	226	(3)
85. Old Porn and Corn-Plasters	229	(6)
Part IV: From Numina to Nowhere
86. Dream-Zoo	235	(3)
87. Our Hero, after Babel	238	(5)
88. Tellers of Tales	243	(5)
89. Tintin	248	(4)
90. Torquemada	252	(2)
91. Hallucinations	254	(2)
92. Kundera	256	(2)
93. Bore-Holes	258	(2)
94. Marx-Time	260	(2)
95. Gasoline	262	(2)
96. The Regimented Numbers Flow	264	(2)
97. Black Mischief	266	(2)
98. Sinewy Dreams	268	(2)
99. Blood in the Morning	270	(3)
100. In the Polluted Desert	273	(2)
101. Cautionary Tales	275	(2)
102. Es muss sein...	277	(2)
103. In the Land of the Bitter Macaroon	279	(1)
104. In Old Trieste	280	(3)
105. Period Effects	283	(2)
106. The Haunted Wood	285	(2)
107. Reality's Dark Dream	287	(3)
108. Glass Bead Gaines	290	(2)
109. Stuffed Grouse	292	(2)
110. 1990	294	(3)
111. Rising Fever	297	(2)
112. Culture on the Rocks	299	(3)
113. Lebensraum	302	(3)
114. Prophylactic Laughter	305	(2)
115. The Corpse in the Vault	307