Email Author Brendan Bernhard

1999 Stories by Brendan Bernhard

• Up Above the World

  published December 2, 1999

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• The Nice New Norton Simon

  published October 14, 1999

  The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena could hang its paintings in an army barracks, stick its sculptures out on the firing range, and its... More >>

• Perhaps These Are Not Poetic Times At All

  published September 23, 1999

  Photo by Virginia Lee HunterPOETS CAN BE DIVIDED INTO TWO CATEGORIES: those who fall about laughing when the subject of book sales is broached;... More >>

• The Ecstatic Life

  published August 19, 1999

  Photo by Valeria GuglielmiLIKE HIS MENTOR JOHN BERGER, GEOFF DYER IS AN ODD HYBRID of novelist, critic, memoirist, historian and prose poet. Of... More >>

• Making Money

  published August 12, 1999

  Photo by Brendan BernhardBOGGS WAS RUNNING LATE AGAIN, AND NEW YORKER writer Lawrence Weschler -- bearded, professorial, wearing a jacket... More >>

• Talking Paris Hotel-Room Blues

  published June 10, 1999

  Photo: AP/Wide WorldI AM ALONE IN A HOTEL ROOM IN Paris. Tomorrow I will be somewhere else. Outside, the wind is blowing. Rain is falling into... More >>

• Briefly Noted

  published May 27, 1999

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• Ask the Auden Expert

  published May 27, 1999

  FOR A CERTAIN KIND OF PERSON WHO CAME OF age in the 1930s, the English poet W.H. Auden played a role similar to the one Bob Dylan would play in... More >>

• Global Entropy

  published May 13, 1999

  ONE OF THE NICE THINGS ABOUT BEING UNHAPPY IS you can do it anywhere. Whatever, French cult hero Michel Houellebecq's debut novel, shows... More >>

• Top Secret!

  published April 8, 1999

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• English as a Foreign Language

  published March 11, 1999

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• Next Time, It Might Kill You

  published February 11, 1999

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• Euro Paean

  published February 11, 1999

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• The Entertainer

  published February 4, 1999

  Photo by Ronald HoebenIan McEwan is one of a triumvirate of English novelists (with Martin Amis and Julian Barnes) who make the case that... More >>