Janique Prejet Vigier

Nov 1, 2024 | newleftreview.org | Gary Indiana |Janique Prejet Vigier

Too soon to write about Gary, who exerted such an influence on me for the past decade. Hedi El Kholti, the editor of Semiotext(e), introduced us in the summer of 2016, at Redondo Beach. ‘You’ll get on, you have a similar sense of humour’. He was right, in a way: Gary and I both liked laughing at Gary’s jokes. He held court that day, reading aloud from a biography of Dolly Parton that he had been commissioned to review. I sat at his feet, quite literally. We had a good time together.

Aug 29, 2023 | bookforum.com | Janique Prejet Vigier

A novel about East Germans situates romantic feelings within the confines of the state Kairos By Jenny Erpenbeck, Translated from German by Michael Hoffman. New York: New Directions. 336 pages. $26. Purchase this book: Bookshop • Amazon IT WAS THE FALL of the Berlin Wall that prompted Jenny Erpenbeck to become a writer, as if the beliefs and structures guiding her life that had, almost overnight, been rendered obsolete, could be recuperated by language.