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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
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