Windy Arbours: Collected Critisism

by Aidan Higgins

Overview

In addition to his novels and stories, Aidan Higgins—one of Ireland's most respected contemporary writers—has written a large body of criticism. Windy Arbours includes pieces written 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 oftentimes entertainingly acerbic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781564783912
Publisher:	Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date:	06/01/2005
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.69(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Aidan Higgins has written short stories, novels, travel pieces, radio plays, and a large body of criticism. A consummate stylist, his writing is lush and complex. His books include "Scenes from a Receding Past", "Bornholm Night-Ferry", "Balcony of Europe", and "Langrishe, Go Down", which was adapted for television by Harold Pinter.

Table of Contents

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