'Locavores' Dine on Regional Chow Nov 22, 2006
Improvising a meal under such tight strictures reminds me of the constrained literary projects of , under whose auspices, for instance, Georges Perec wrote his novel. La Disparition. (Wired News)
WRITERS' PICKS Dec 4, 2005
The effect is as if Georges Simenon had been shoved into a shotgun marriage with Georges Perec (and why not. but it's Vargas' voice that really does this business: spry, ironic, yet fully engaged with the horror of contemporary reality. (Los Angeles Times)
Michael Dirda's Gift Picks Dec 4, 2004
When the hero and his girlfriend pick up some paperbacks, he writes, "You couldn't buy just any book. Some weren't for men, others weren't for women. Books not for men were written by women and had covers with women men wanted. Books not for women were written by men and had covers with men or submarines." Nufer's book is sexy, clever and just the sort of thing the master experimentalist Georges Perec might have written. Perec composed his famous novel La Disparition without using the letter E,... (Washington Post)
'Fictitious' author publishes the first book without verbs May 9, 2004
" Mr Thaler says that he hopes Le Train de Nulle Part, which costs 20 (14) will be translated into English. In France, with its long and distinguished literary heritage, the reading public is struggling to fathom whether the work is any more than an exercise in semantics and strangled grammar. It remains to be seen whether Mr Thaler's book grows to be as admired as La Disparition (The Disappearance), which Georges Perec wrote in 1969 without using the letter "e". Mr Perec, who tried to expand... (Telegraph.co.uk, UK)
'Experimental novelist' kicks the regular rulebook into touch By Richard Freeman Apr 11, 2004
Currently working and living in Tokyo, Beard -- who lists his favorite three books as "Life -- A User's Manual" by Georges Perec, James Joyce's "Ulysses," and "Shogun" by James Clavell -- last week talked with The Japan Times about life as a writer. What exactly are you doing in Japan. (Japan Times Online, Japan -- Life)
The gospel according to Paul Nov 15, 2003
This motivates his enthusiasm for the work of Georges Perec, or the unusual hybrid forms of Edmond Jab. s and Joseph Joubert (Guardian, UK)
