Alan Halsey’s review of December Other Room reader Nick Thurston’s Reading the Removal of Literature can be read at Stride magazine. Here’s the start:
Reading the Remove of Literature is unlike any book I’ve looked at. I’ve read it too but the looking at it is the first essential. With all but a few books one reads without consciousness of seeing. Nick Thurston’s book demands that one look at it constantly and never detach the seeing from the reading – and yet it is only marginally what we generally describe as a ‘visual text’.
The first words of Craig Dworkin’s introduction set the scene: ‘The book you are holding is an edition of Maurice Blanchot’s L’Espace littéraire, although not a word of Blanchot’s text remains. Every page of this book has been assiduously erased by Nick Thurston.
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