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by Siri Hustvedt


  Also by Siri Hustvedt

  Fiction

  The Blindfold

  The Enchantment of Lily Dahl

  What I Loved

  The Sorrows of an American

  The Summer Without Men

  Nonfiction

  A Plea for Eros

  Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting

  The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

  Living, Thinking, Looking

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  Interior design by Aline Pace

  Jacket design by Christopher Lin

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Hustvedt, Siri.

  The blazing world / Siri Hustvedt.

  pages cm

  1. Women artists—Fiction. 2. Teachers—Fiction. 3. Death—Fiction.

  4. Psychological fiction. I. Title.

  PS3558.U813B53 2014

  813’.54—dc23

  2013027172

  ISBN 978-1-4767-4723-1

  ISBN 978-1-4767-4725-5 (ebook)

  Contents

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  Editor’s Introduction

  Harriet Burden: Notebook C (memoir fragment)

  Cynthia Clark (interview with former owner of the Clark Gallery, NYC, April 6, 2009

  Maisie Lord (edited transcript)

  Harriet Burden: Notebook C

  Oswald Case (written statement)

  Rachel Briefman (written statement)

  A Compendium of Thirteen: Characters, a Non Sequitur, a Confession, a Riddle, and Memories for H.B.

  Harriet Burden: Notebook

  Rosemary Lerner (written statement)

  Bruno Kleinfeld (written statement)

  Maisie Lord (edited transcript)

  Sweet Autumn Pinkney (edited transcript)

  Anton Tish (interview from Tutti Fruity, “Just Checking In,” April 24, 1999)

  Rachel Briefman (written statement)

  Phineas Q. Eldridge (written statement)

  An Alphabet Toward Several Meanings of Art and Generation

  Harriet Burden: Notebook B

  Bruno Kleinfeld (written statement)

  Oswald Case (written statement)

  The Barometer (excerpt from Phineas Q. Eldridge’s taped conversation, October 15, 2001)

  Maisie Lord (edited transcript)

  Patrick Donan (review of The Suffocation Rooms, Art Beats, NYC, March 27, 2002)

  Zachary Dortmund (review of The Suffocation Rooms, Art Assembly, March 30, 2001)

  Harriet Burden: Notebook K

  Harriet Burden: Notebook A

  Harriet Burden: Notebook M

  Harriet Burden: Notebook T

  Harriet Burden: Notebook O. The Fifth Circle (discovered by Maisie Lord, June 20, 2012)

  Rachel Briefman (written statement)

  Phineas Q. Eldridge (written statement)

  Richard Brickman (letter to the editor in The Open Eye: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Art and Perception Studies, Fall 2003)

  William Burridge (interview, December 5, 2010)

  A Dispatch from Elsewhere: Ethan Lord

  Harriet Burden: Notebook D

  Harriet Burden: Notebook O

  Maisie Lord (edited transcript, June 13, 2012)

  Bruno Kleinfeld (written statement)

  Timothy Hardwick (“Rune’s Ego Machine: Harbinger of the New Aesthetics” in Visibility: A Magazine of the Arts, February 2009)

  Kirsten Larsen Smith (interview, November 2011)

  Harriet Burden: Notebook U

  Harriet Burden: Notebook O

  Harriet Burden: Notebook D

  Harriet Burden: Notebook T

  Sweet Autumn Pinkney (edited transcript)

  About the Author

 

 

 


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