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Dreamers Rise 202: Change of address

Dreamers Rise 201: The use of memory

Dreamers Rise 200: Night piece (Frenzy)

Dreamers Rise 199: Without a ghost (conclusion)

Dreamers Rise 198: Without a ghost (II)

Dreamers Rise 197: Without a ghost (I)

Dreamers Rise 196: Winter pieces (V)

Dreamers Rise 195: Winter pieces (IV)

Dreamers Rise 194: Innocence

Dreamers Rise 193: George Tooker (with a nod to Alberto Manguel)

Dreamers Rise 192: Hitchhiker (“Christabel”)

Dreamers Rise 191: Syd Straw: Pink Velour

Dreamers Rise 190: Winter pieces (III)

Dreamers Rise 189: Winter pieces (II) (Bread)

Dreamers Rise 188: Winter pieces (I)

Dreamers Rise 187: Guy Fleming jackets

Dreamers Rise 186: Full Service No Waiting

Dreamers Rise 185: Hard times

Dreamers Rise 184: The wraiths; Notebook (praying mantis)

Dreamers Rise 183: Jules Shear: Between Us

Dreamers Rise 182: Notebook (September 2008)

Dreamers Rise 181: After lunch (Julio Cortázar)

Dreamers Rise 180: How Our Society Was Organized

Dreamers Rise 179: Dread (the 2008 presidential election)

Dreamers Rise 178: The Tenant (conclusion)

Dreamers Rise 177: The Dreamer's Rise interview

Dreamers Rise 176: The Tenant: untelling a story (I)

Dreamers Rise 175: New Directions in the 1940s

Dreamers Rise 174: MS. Found Scrawled on the Endpapers of a Copy of Luc Sante's Low Life

Dreamers Rise 173: Beach read (Glenda Adams)

Dreamers Rise 172: Las fases de Severo

Dreamers Rise 171: Die Schiffahrt und Flosserei im Raume der oberen Donau

Dreamers Rise 170: Once (film by John Carney)

Dreamers Rise 169: Young Perceval

Dreamers Rise 168: Notebook

Dreamers Rise 167: Through windows

Dreamers Rise 166: 2:32

Dreamers Rise 165: Hopscotch cover art

Dreamers Rise 164: Husks (Winter's end)

Dreamers Rise 163: Incidents of travel (conclusion)

Dreamers Rise 162: Incidents of travel (VIII)

Dreamers Rise 161: Incidents of travel (VII)

Dreamers Rise 160: Incidents of travel (VI)

Dreamers Rise 159: Incidents of travel (V)

Dreamers Rise 158: A village in the distance

Dreamers Rise 157: Incidents of travel (IV)

Dreamers Rise 156: Incidents of travel (III)

Dreamers Rise 155: Incidents of travel (II)

Dreamers Rise 154: Incidents of travel (I)

Dreamers Rise 153: The undoing

Dreamers Rise 152: Martin, Bogan & Armstrong

Dreamers Rise 151: Year's end (Milton & Marvell)

Dreamers Rise 150: Work in progress (II)

Dreamers Rise 149: Work in progress (I)

Dreamers Rise 148: Mozaik: Changing Trains

Dreamers Rise 147: Notes & queries (One Hundred Years of Solitude)

Dreamers Rise 146: Short subjects (V) (Graham Parker)

Dreamers Rise 145: Roughing it (Stephens and Catherwood)

Dreamers Rise 144: September 2007

Dreamers Rise 143: Short subjects (IV) (Samuel Charters)

Dreamers Rise 142: Short subjects (III) (Charles-Frédéric Soehnée)

Dreamers Rise 141: Short subjects (II) (Pablo Neruda)

Dreamers Rise 140: Short subjects (I) (Richard & Linda Thompson)

Dreamers Rise 139: Open road (Peter Case)

Dreamers Rise 125 - 138: The Palace of the King of Night (novella)

Dreamers Rise 124: The Drowned Train (c.1979)

Dreamers Rise 123: Open the door, Homer

Dreamers Rise 122: The woods

Dreamers Rise 121: The top of the world

Dreamers Rise 120: Threads (Lucy Kaplansky)

Dreamers Rise 119: Sharks, pretty voices etc.

Dreamers Rise 118: Just beyond

Dreamers Rise 117: The coup

Dreamers Rise 116: The way they are

Dreamers Rise 115: John Craxton covers

Dreamers Rise 114: Souvenir of the Ancient World

Dreamers Rise 113: Over there

Dreamers Rise 112: As Far As You Can Get Without a Passport

Dreamers Rise 111: Notebook (Hawks)

Dreamers Rise 110: Among the Ainu; Notebook

Dreamers Rise 109: Nymphs (Elizabeth Hand)

Dreamers Rise 108: The stag

Dreamers Rise 107: In the valley

Dreamers Rise 106: Post-election, 2006

Dreamers Rise 105: In Our Time

Dreamers Rise 104: A Planxty page

Dreamers Rise 103: How to Change a Flat Tire

Dreamers Rise 102: Spetmeber

Dreamers Rise 101: Tight to the Jar

Dreamers Rise 100: Aubade

Dreamers Rise 99: Departing

Dreamers Rise 98: Summer off

Dreamers Rise 97: Spell of Wheels (Peter Case)

Dreamers Rise 96: Rivers: a reading list

Dreamers Rise 95: Haditha

Dreamers Rise 94: He Ain't Got Rhythm

Dreamers Rise 93: Too busy to write

Dreamers Rise 92: The wraiths (I)

Dreamers Rise 91: Under sentence

Dreamers Rise 90: Spring miscellany

Dreamers Rise 89: The Linden River

Dreamers Rise 88: Walser's silence

Dreamers Rise 87: Two paperback imprints; Short subjects

Dreamers Rise 86: Late Bowles

Dreamers Rise 85: Tale

Dreamers Rise 84: Ceilidh

Dreamers Rise 83: Mister Nice Guy (R. Crumb)

Dreamers Rise 82: Walls of time; Cortázariana siempre

Dreamers Rise 81: Being illegal

Dreamers Rise 80: March lectionary

Dreamers Rise 79: Whisper of the Heart

Dreamers Rise 78: Some basic propositions (I)

Dreamers Rise 77: The box (Richard Thompson)

Dreamers Rise 76: Ghibli: the next generation?

Dreamers Rise 75: Retreat

Dreamers Rise 74: In the news (Syd Straw, Werner Herzog, etc.)

Dreamers Rise 73: Early February Miscellany (Reza Aslan's No god but God, etc.)

Dreamers Rise 72: Confucius at the ford

Dreamers Rise 71: A letter

Dreamers Rise 70: Storm

Dreamers Rise 69: January miscellany

Dreamers Rise 68: The Journey of Shuna

Dreamers Rise 67: The Great Languages

Dreamers Rise 66: The Thibaults

Dreamers Rise 65: Aloft (Donald Evans)

Dreamers Rise 64: King Strut

Dreamers Rise 63: Aloft (Anne Arden McDonald)

Dreamers Rise 62: The White Diamond

Dreamers Rise 61: The Mortician's Daughter

Dreamers Rise 60: November miscellany: McSweeney's & more

Dreamers Rise 59: Bear Mountain

Dreamers Rise 58: The Barricades of Heaven

Dreamers Rise 57: Rats

Dreamers Rise 56: Sin City

Dreamers Rise 55: Vigil

Dreamers Rise 54: Evidence

Dreamers Rise 53: The Drowned Train

Dreamers Rise 52: Odd bits

Dreamers Rise 51: Industry

Dreamers Rise 50: Flight

Dreamers Rise 49: Live music

Dreamers Rise 48: Au Bord du Lac Bijou

Dreamers Rise 47: Amphibian; Briefly noted

Dreamers Rise 46: Grizzly Man; Werner Herzog's “Minnesota Declaration”

Dreamers Rise 45: Bob Dylan's Dream

Dreamers Rise 44: Cardboard Box of Batteries

Dreamers Rise 43: Kelly Joe Phelps; Syd Straw

Dreamers Rise 42: Ramble; The Burial of Spiders

Dreamers Rise 41: At the Mountains of Madness

Dreamers Rise 40: Cinema Panopticum; In the pipe

Dreamers Rise 39: Lake Charles

Dreamers Rise 38: The Cave of the Bears

Dreamers Rise 37: Farm

Dreamers Rise 36: Turnin' Blue

Dreamers Rise 35: Coffee

Dreamers Rise 34: Housekeeping

Dreamers Rise 33: The Velvet Revolution

Dreamers Rise 32: Yes, but who will cure us of the dull fire? (3)

Dreamers Rise 31: Divided Kingdom

Dreamers Rise 30: On Dreams

Dreamers Rise 29: The Vulgar Boatmen

Dreamers Rise 28: Yes, but who will cure us of the dull fire? (2)

Dreamers Rise 27: Salamander

Dreamers Rise 26: Yes, but who will cure us of the dull fire? (1)

Dreamers Rise 25: Dave Swarbrick's Rags, Reels & Airs, Rafi Zabor, Harry Mathews, and Gregory Rabassa, and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

Dreamers Rise 24: An excerpt from Los Autonautas de la Cosmopista

Dreamers Rise 23: Notes, going somewhere ..., and Josh Marshall on Social Security

Dreamers Rise 22: A Blind Step Away

Dreamers Rise 21: The Awaited

Dreamers Rise 20: Leopardi

Dreamers Rise 19: #19

Dreamers Rise 18: The Peregrine

Dreamers Rise 17: Alas, Babylon

Dreamers Rise 16: Social Security

Dreamers Rise 15: Hayao Miyazaki

Dreamers Rise 14: Joni Mitchell

Dreamers Rise 13: Freedy Johnston

Dreamers Rise 12: Bob Herbert; “The Bear's Rock,” and more

Dreamers Rise 11: Cortázar; and a miscellany

Dreamers Rise 10: Some post-election reflections

Dreamers Rise 9: A miscellany

Dreamers Rise 8: Birds without Wings; a miscellany

Dreamers Rise 7: Ten books I'd read again if I could only read ten more books

Dreamers Rise 6: Perfectly inessential books that happen to please me

Dreamers Rise 5: Some favorite CDs; Peter Case

Dreamers Rise 4: Five favorite early blues singers / groups

Dreamers Rise 3: Favorite funky scholarly books

Dreamers Rise 2: Miscellany

Dreamers Rise 1: The Asiago Bunny


MISCELLANEOUS PIECES

Notes on the jazz lyrics in Cortázar's Rayuela (Hopscotch)

On Gillian Welch

On Richard Thompson (notes)

On Posterity, or the lack of it (notes)



From 2001 to 2005 I made occasional contributions to Tom Meagher's BOOK CASE at commonreader.com. As the site is no longer in operation I have reformatted and incorporated some of those articles here.


LISTENING

Richard Thompson (5/04)

Planxty

Paul Brady's Missing Liberty Tapes

The Country Blues

A Wesleyan hymn

A music of ghosts

Alboka


READING

Cortázar's letters

The Day of the Triffids

Sea Room

James Forten

Mitchell's Old Hotel

John Collier

Beating the Tupan in the Central Balkans

Spencer Holst

Krazy Kat

Found in a book

The Mysterious Island

Safford's Guam (I)

Safford's Guam (II)

Darwin and Sacks


CREATURE FEATURES

Wild Life: Killer shrews

Wild Life: Mice

Wild Life: Rabbit

Wild Life: The Black Beast

Wild Life: The Monkey Man

The Perils of Aquaria


LANDSCAPES & MEMORIES

All Hallows Eve

Woodland (I)

Woodland (II)

Urn Burial


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