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cbertsch


	Statement of Purpose
	From W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz-- From the outset my main concern was with the shape and the self-contained nature of discrete things, the curve of banisters on a staircase, the moulding of a stone arch over a gateway, the tangled precision of the blades in a tussock of dried grass (108). Tags: autobiography, commonplace book, literature Current Location: 85704

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	From: elizabeg	Date: December 13th, 2007 06:15 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

Sebald! I miss Sebald...

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	From: cbertsch	Date: December 13th, 2007 07:40 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

Be strong! Your sobriety is important.

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PROFILE


User: cbertsch Name: Charlie Bertsch

CALENDAR

LINKS (INCLUDES NON-LJ BLOGS)

FEATURED LINK

Elliott Berry

PHOTOGRAPHS

Picture of the Moment

PUBLICATIONS

Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life

Printculture

io9 (a sci-fi blog)

Other magazine

Morphizm

McSweeney's

Left Business Observer

The Believer

DEGREES OF SEPARATION

Steven Rubio's Online Life

Joel Schalit

Super Bon! (Jonathan Sterne)

Annalee Newitz's column

Mark Sussman

Justin St. Germain

I Cite (Jodi Dean)

Michael Bérubé

Eensy Weensy (Ann Powers)

Jill from h2so4

Jessica Suarez

Mike Kolakoski

Fredoluv

K-Punk

Ted Friedman

Scott McLemee

Catfish Vegas

MUSIC

Zoilus

Simon Reynolds

Boblog

Flaskaland

RockCritics.com

LITERARY

Ron Silliman

ACADEMIC

Intellectual Affairs (Scott McLemee's Column)

The Valve

Crooked Timber

POLITICAL

CNN Political Ticker

Blog Left

Nathan Newman

GENERAL ENTERTAINMENT

Tim Goodman (SF Gate)

Culture Blog (SF Gate)

ABOUT DE FILE

You're looking at content from my Live Journal, which I have been keeping since 2003. I consider it a personal blog, though it lacks stream-of-consciousness revelations that typify that genre.

That said, if you manage to discern the confessional mode within entries that are superficially tight-lipped, I will reward you handsomely. Or at least pretend to do so.

In addition to reflections, however mediated, on my daily activities, De File features periodic excavations of material from my "files," a revelation sure to disturb anyone who has seen my garage. It's an experiment in integrating past and present, perhaps with a little redemption along the way.

Politics is always on my mind, but rarely explicit here. I’m working on a theory about what personal writing like this does to literary identification and why some people resist its pull so powerfully. But my goal is to make that theory dissolve in my practice, a density in liquid.

You'll note that I have links to blogs not on LiveJournal directly above, as well as assorted websites of note. The blogs I read regularly on LiveJournal itself fall under "FRIENDS" at the top, for those of you unfamiliar with LJ’s workings.

You can write me. I'm "cbertsch" before the circle-a and "comcast.net" after it.