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Where literature and art intersect, with an emphasis on W.G. Sebald and literature with embedded photographs
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Welcome to Vertigo
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I began Vertigo in 2007 primarily as a vehicle for writing about W.G. Sebald and the history of fiction and poetry that have photographs embedded as part of the author's original text. Now I also write about a broader range of books that interest me. You can see a dozen or so of the posts I like best (from more than 600) by clicking on the My Favorite Posts tab. And check out my yearly Reading Log, where I write a short paragraph about every book I read. The Categories list below represents only a handful of the topics covered in this blog. To see if an author, book, or topic has been discussed somewhere on Vertigo, use the Search field, which is found below the Categories listing. At the Downloadable Bibliography tab above, you can download an extensive bibliography of more than 700 books of Photo-Embedded Fiction & Poetry from the 1890s to the present, plus a full Author/Artist Index. To contact me, just leave a comment at any post and I will answer. Follow me at @vertigoterry.bsky.social
Extended Coverage
In addition to W.G. Sebald, there are several writers that I have written about multiple times on Vertigo over the last two decades, writers whose books I have found to be consistently worthy of deep and multiple readings. They are (in alphabetical order): Sergio Chejfec, Don Mee Choi, Teju Cole, Dorothee Elmiger, Mathias Énard, Julian Gracq, Esther Kinsky, Wolfgang Koeppen, Micheline Aharonian Marcom, Javier Marías, Joseph McElroy, Patrick Modiano, David Peace’s Red Riding Quartet), Ricardo Piglia, Ann Quin., and Enrique Vila-Matas.
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