Harrowing and Unsavory

Hearty thanks for kind comments--really, for bearing up under the onslaught--regarding Bughouse Blues. #Bughouse blues #Rhodes To...

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Jan 17, 20231 min read

Oh Frabjous Day!

Right, it's hard to concentrate on something like literary translation, with the elections tomorrow. Our hero, Harrison Rhodes, being...

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Nov 7, 20221 min read

Where's Rhodes now?

Looking at that hotly worded email from Rhodes, about the sports pages, it occurs to me he might be in-country! Not in one of those awful...

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Nov 27, 20211 min read

End of Rhodes

Right. Well, we seem to be done. Rhodes' end, though a bit unclear where he goes after the spell of rotting in a Marseille prison ( The...

thompete6

May 31 min read

The Jailbird's Song

This may be the end of the Rhodes (take a look, the novel The Jailbird's Song , www.dialogosbooks.com , amazon etc). This bulletin, just...

thompete6

Jan 251 min read

The Horror Highway

And so we stagger on... with our tear-streaks, our clenched fists... bleeding brains. Those who have fled are dogged by our shadows, by...

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Dec 12, 20241 min read

Hell Roads

Is my hero, Rhodes, really off--with jutting jaw, or merely Beckettian shuffle--to the flames of Hell? What is the end, in the final...

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Aug 19, 20241 min read

Fargue-in awesome, as always

Soon, there was nothing before the last men but a long boulevard beyond which the Void could be read like a poster. The Earth Affair was...

thompete6

Jun 14, 20241 min read

With A Mouth Full Of Vomit

We can't go on. We go on. We'll stagger through the miasma of corruption that lies ahead, then we'll try to vote in the fall. The...

thompete6

Apr 30, 20241 min read

A Harmonica, or A Calendar

You expect life to contain its own magic. You want to reach into it and pull out, I don't know, a... calendar, or a harmonica. But no, it...

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Mar 15, 20241 min read

Yikes! Rhodesie in jail!

This is bad. Is my guy--your guy, Rhodes--in a foreign jail? Has his exquisite rage with humanity caused some giant misunderstanding?...

thompete6

Jan 12, 20241 min read

Before It's Too Late!

Bukowski writes "orientate," as a verb. I mean, I know he's supposed to be rough, but not that rough. And Rhodes, Harrison, you know, my...

thompete6

Dec 9, 20231 min read

Pablum! Melt-down! I'm drowning!

It's the pablum of paratactic parity! Melt-down to mediocrity! There's no above or below--no hierarchy of values I can grab like a branch...

thompete6

Nov 27, 20231 min read

Peter Thompson books

Novels (the HARRISON RHODES STORIES), poetry, translations, anthologies

The anthologies have been used for many years in French language and literature courses, high school and college.

The translations are from French. Most of the works on this site derive from a multicultural interest and wide travel.

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