Greg Gerke / Socrates on the Beach
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In the Suavity of the Rock (novel)with @thisissplice https://tinyurl.com/3dthp3u2 Editor: http://socratesonthebeach.com
Reviewed Michael Eddy's Koh-i-Noor for @reviewcanada.bsky.social reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...
A Spirited Debacle | A review of “Koh-i-Noor” by Michael Eddy | Literary Review of Canada
Rod Moody-Corbett reviews “Koh-i-Noor,” a book on globalization and the search for one’s values, by Michael Eddy.
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Gratitude to Celeste for the editing. This is a centerpiece of the Art and Life book. Great to see it has a nice home at Liberties. libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
Ozu and the Fear of Death
Yasujirō Ozu is from a different time and place in the sense that in the place where he is from, time does not behave the way our time does. Shigehiko Hasumi, the Japanese literary and film critic and...
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“Manet — the lens of his eyes were some of the first lenses of modern life — the first moving camera.”
Greg Gerke / Socrates on the Beach@greggerkesocrates.bsky.social · 3mo ago@greggerkesocrates.bsky.social on Yasujirō Ozu in Liberties. "...practice for the real thing with a work that is true." libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
Ozu and the Fear of Death
Yasujirō Ozu is from a different time and place in the sense that in the place where he is from, time does not behave the way our time does. Shigehiko Hasumi, the Japanese literary and film critic and...
libertiesjournal.com
I felt a strange presence as if Aesop is in the same darkness that enfolds Las Meninas...I shifted that memory to pull Aesop back into that darkness where my dead uncle was in a strange vector, the pendulum between my teenage self and my grieving self. greg-gerke.medium.com/spain-madrid...
SPAIN, MADRID, PRADO, VELAZQUEZ, GOYA
Is the sublime aesthetic experience still possible when over fifty? How could I ever doubt it? Just a few weeks ago, I spoke to a writer…
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If you liked Tyler Hellard's SEARCHING FOR TERRY PUNCHOUT, try Rod Moody-Corbett's screamingly funny and heartbreakingly sad novel, HIDES.
“We feel the deluge in our bones.” —Riverwork, Lisa Robertson Excerpts in the current issue of Socrates on the Beach @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social socratesonthebeach.com/lisa-robertson
Lisa Robertson — Socrates on the Beach
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The 13th issue of Socrates on the Beach is up. Thank you to the writers and translators. socratesonthebeach.com
5 years of Socrates on the Beach... McElroy, Gass, Tudor-Sideri, Musil, Grill, Ariel Porte, Moore, Ulven, Blackwell, Craig, Theroux, Sims, Valéry, Stefanescu, Wood, Cărtărescu, Lutz, Hall, Haskell, Nutt, Ryder, Cárdenas, Khi Nao, Olsen, Handke, DeForest... socratesonthebeach.com
An essay on Ezra Pound, John Milton, music and poetry in Socrates on the Beach. @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social socratesonthebeach.com/eric-racher
Eric Racher — Socrates on the Beach
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Since I find myself missing the sea today— A thread of writing published in 2025, beginning with the latest: excerpts in Socrates on the Beach @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social from An Absence of Sea, forthcoming in April 2026 with @erratumpress.bsky.social socratesonthebeach.com/christina-an...
Christina - An Absence — Socrates on the Beach
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In September, a being-and-breathing-with essay review of Medha Singh’s @medhawrites.bsky.social phenomenal poetry collection, Afterbody, for Socrates on the Beach @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social socratesonthebeach.com/christina-tu...
Christina Tudor-Sideri on Medha Singh — Socrates on the Beach
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Reviewed the new Bergen for @reviewcanada.bsky.social reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...
The Imposter | A review of “Days of Feasting and Rejoicing” by David Bergen | Literary Review of Canada
Rod Moody-Corbett reviews “Days of Feasting and Rejoicing” by David Bergen, a Riplean novel about a murderer in Thailand.
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Extremely happy to share this short story, with special thanks to Garielle Lutz for her commentary and for putting it up on Hobart. Written just as I tackled a Poussin essay, it bears those traces... www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/x
Portrait by Greg Gerke
I am watching the lonely goatherd—that is, the two garbage canisters at the end of the lawn. To the left in my window-sized view are two mini-cypresses (I don’t know their true names), then a small st...
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The twelfth issue of Socrates on the Beach is live. Thank you to the authors and the translator and those who helped with the issue. socratesonthebeach.com
