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Flann O’Brien, Charles Olson, Karel Capek (Books Acquired, Earlier This Week)

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4 Comments to “Flann O’Brien, Charles Olson, Karel Capek (Books Acquired, Earlier This Week)”

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   MJS
   April 27, 2012 at 11:31 am

   Where did you find Call Me Ishmael? I find Olson’s stuff incredibly hard to find, aside from Selected Poems. Lucky bastard!

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     Biblioklept
     April 27, 2012 at 11:46 am

     I get most of my books from Chamblin Book Mine in Jacksonville, FL. I live one mile from this book store. Chamblin’s is like a maze or labyrinth of four or five buildings cobbled together. It is a sprawl of used books — somewhere between a million and two million, the owner once estimated for me. The store is just crammed with stuff like this. I never get bored there and I usually have some trade credit, so I spend too much time there. I found the Olson by chance (I wasn’t looking for Olson or Melville).

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   F.H.
   April 28, 2012 at 12:17 am

   Call Me Ishmael’s pretty easy to find, actually, at least online. Johns Hopkins University Press has it out in a particularly ugly cover. Anyhow, I love the book. Probably the best thing ever written on Melville and Moby-Dick (sorry Parker, Lawrence, Delbanco, etc., etc., etc.).

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     Biblioklept
     April 28, 2012 at 10:13 am

     I read most of it yesterday and it’s really good — more centered on sources and influences (personal, literary etc.) than Lawrence’s chapter in Studies in Classic American Lit (which, for the record, I love), but it’s also loose and free.

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