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3 months

A writer who can't commit suicide because she endlessly revises her suicide note

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Just realized these are metaphors. Oh God. Oh no.

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3 months

Seems insane that Anton Chekhov looked like this.

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2 months

You should read great books because they enlargen your experience of life, briefly countermand death, and engender joy. If they make you a better writer too, cool.

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ok writer peeps i need your opinion because a friend and i have been arguing for two days about this: should you read the classics to hone your craft? ("western" classics like shakespeare, beowulf, steinbeck, etc)

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9 days

Beautiful little book

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3 months

“Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they’ll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.” Andrei Tarkovsky

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1 year

Prose so evocative you can taste the sharp shock of mountain hoarfrost in the back of your throat, smell the heady aroma of planed pine. I’ll return to this book for the rest of my life.

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7 months

My small talk on a first date

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10 months

Me refusing to account for anything I say or do or think

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2 months

Harold Bloom was correct to emphasize the importance of creative misreading on the process of literary apprenticeship. I, for instance, believe that In Search of Lost Time is about me. Hamlet? Hamlet is about me.

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9 months

“What does literature even do?” Uh, makes me want to live. Is that not enough?

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4 months

The best prose reads like poetry & the best poetry (you can see where I'm going with this), yep, also reads like poetry.

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4 months

Literature can do some of what is done by sociology, psychology, philosophy, critical theory, poly sci, etc., but what it does that no other discipline does is attune you to the volume & strangeness of existence.

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1 year

@ashleyrattner Drop the name: rescue a generation.

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5 months

Anselm Kiefer painted the fire protection wall at the Vienna State Opera.

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9 months

Now that I've signed up for Criterion Channel, I'm going to watch one movie every Sunday morning. So, I need to build a list. Kindly comment your favorite CC movie (name only one film, please) along with a few words about why you love it.

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2 years

@dan_hornsby My retirement plan is no more complicated than this.

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4 months

Every book is a red flag. Man snatched literacy from the void like Promethean fire. The runes are not for us.

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1 year

Just finished a crisply written, tautly plotted, highly lauded novel about which I have, really, nothing bad to say except that reading it gave me no pleasure. Why? Because its prose prizes efficiency over distinctiveness, legibility over complexity. Why do I dislike that?

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5 months

Some thoughts on this book

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5 months

Extraordinary. I’m going to read everything she’s written.

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1 year

@octopus_grigori Agreed.

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9 months

You know that phenomenon of literary-adjacent Pulitzer-type novels being well-written in the first 15 pages but then pairing down the prose to a breezy, lightly scented version of the same for the rest of the book? I've never seen someone suggest that technique, but...

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9 months

Been a minute. Was due for a reread.

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1 year

The stack of novellas & stories that’ll keep me company on my upcoming 40h of travel.

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9 months

I have changed. This is excellent.

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9 months

It’s been 20 years. Giving this one another shot.

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10 months

Autofiction isn’t meant to be read: it’s meant to be scanned by the author’s friends for traces of their own likenesses.

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7 months

Today’s selection (gf’s first viewing)

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7 months

Interrupting my regularly scheduled Gaddis for

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2 years

Hyperinflation of language: passable writing is genius, smirk-inducing comments are hilarious, imperfect circumstances from childhood are traumas, spirited disagreements are violence.

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9 months

The infantilizing of a nation’s literary narratives is intimately connected with the infantilizing of a nation’s political narratives.

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4 months

The sexiest thing a woman can say to a man: How would you feel about reading In Search of Lost Time aloud to each other over the next three years?

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1 year

Those short, punchy, callow, mawkish love poems shared widely on this platform? Here's an example of that kind of thing done well.

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11 months

People are so proud of never having read Ulysses. They can’t wait to tell you.

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5 months

You wrote an entire novel in which not a single sentence ever attempts to elicit joy. OK. Why not just work in an office?

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1 year

After two years of searching, in which I enlisted four booksellers across four states to scour their databases, and even emailed directly with the author (who himself doesn’t own a copy), I finally have it - Joshua Cohen’s A Heaven of Others.

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4 months

Weird little book.

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11 months

For sale: Finnegans Wake, never read.

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6 months

2023’s hottest novel is Solenoid. This book has everything. An underground menagerie of enormous grotesqueries. Harrowing excavations of the unconscious. *The Voynich manuscript!*

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8 months

Birthday present from the gf

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8 months

Bingo.

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7 months

My friends assume that bc I read big sad books I must be sad too, but they're all insomniacs on anti-anxiety meds, battling invasive thoughts while watching The Bachelor; meanwhile, I wake up from another perfect night's sleep & dive into Gaddis just smiling & singing to myself.

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8 months

Gf: Have you read Benjamin’s memoir? Me: Benjamin wrote a memoir?

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5 months

Very rarely, a book I want from the library is already checked out. I wish there were a way to message whoever has it. Seems like the easiest way to make new friends.

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2 years

"It's dying of competency, the American novel." - Barry Hannah

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4 months

Taps sign.

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10 months

A tattered copy of a minor work by a forgotten writer dredged up from the library bowels of a fifth-tier American city turns out to be dazzling, the most empathetic & imaginative work of speculative psychology I’ve encountered. Hapax legomenon, every life, every thing.

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5 months

An interviewer once asked Nabokov whether he agreed with the complaint that all his books sound alike. Nabokov conceded that that may in fact be true: genius has only itself to draw on; whereas, talent can pull from anywhere. I think about that in relation to bands who are...

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The book & a representative passage - by Maurice Maeterlinck, the great Belgian symbolist playwright (who was, as I recently learned, also an apiarist).

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10 months

A tattered copy of a minor work by a forgotten writer dredged up from the library bowels of a fifth-tier American city turns out to be dazzling, the most empathetic & imaginative work of speculative psychology I’ve encountered. Hapax legomenon, every life, every thing.

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8 months

Hello, darkness, my old friend.

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7 months

Devastating novels I check out from the library be like

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2 years

In my recurring nightmare, Nabokov summarily dismisses me as a minor poet.

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6 months

Them: Dude, are you huffing that Cărtărescu?! Me:

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9 months

People who say, “I love to read,” have the worst taste in books.

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6 months

Instead of trying to sell 10,000 copies of a book for $15 apiece, sell 1 copy for $150,000. This is so easy. You guys suck at business.

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4 months

Which great male writers were also great fathers? Gass & Nabokov come to mind. Who else?

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9 months

It’s been 20 years. Giving this one another shot.

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7 months

Gaddis vs DeLillo on a sentence level. DeLillo's prose bounces & breathes; Gaddis's holds its breath, violently exhaling at the end of each line. Gaddis, both angular & baroque. DeLillo's salmagundi: mixing the menace of politics with the flavor of the banal everyday.

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8 months

The scariest novel I've ever read is yours. The bloated ambition, the flaccid execution, those rancid mixed metaphors. After I read it, I said to your high-school crush and all the authors you respect, Who are his influences, Paulo Coelho & the back of a Hamburger Helper box?

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8 months

My shirt. My current reading. My relationship status. They’re all *very complicated.*

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1 year

Do you understand what I mean when I say Barthelme has big Fun Uncle energy?

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10 months

Alexander Theroux going for the neck

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1 year

What is the best novel available in English (translations welcome) written since 1980?

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5 months

What is your book about?

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8 months

The only poster I owned as a teenager was a print of this.

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1 year

Jim Jarmusch just released an album where he reads Ashbery poems over droning psych-rock guitars.

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3 months

Let beauty ruin your life.

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Favorite character who's intentionally obnoxious but well-written and compelling?

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"Devices will drain us, make us vague and pliant." - Don DeLillo (sent from iPhone)

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2 years

My brother, who wasn’t even supposed to get me a gift this year, tracked down a first-edition, signed copy of Airships. This is the best book I will ever own. I have a great brother.

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11 months

In March of 1981, my grandfather was murdered. Within weeks, the man who killed him, a convict out on parole, was caught by the FBI. There is no doubt that this man is the man who killed my grandfather: even in court, he didn't profess his innocence. But—

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1 year

Wearing my Don DeLillo baseball cap, my Anthology Film Archive tee, carrying a Paris Review tote over one shoulder & a Charlie Parker tote over the other, waiting for a beautiful, brilliant woman to approach me but instead I get punched in the face by a guy named Barf.

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1 year

Never forget that this happened.

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8 months

Y'all forgot to include these on your top-10 lists: Ada or Ardor Seymour: An Introduction The Horse's Mouth Geronimo Rex The Messiah of Stockholm The Moviegoer Free Fall Witz Train Dreams uhhh what else? Moscow-Petushki If on a winter's night a traveler Voynich manuscript

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5 months

OK, it’s time.

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1 year

Anyone read this? Good little find so far.

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10 months

@aliner Years ago there was a perfume store in NYC that put all their scents on tap so you didn’t know what you were smelling. The number of sophisticates who walked out of the place with Pitbull by Pitbull was my favorite walk of shame.

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3 months

Refusing to read the news because it has no likeable characters.

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2 months

Get in, losers. We’re founding a new American religion.

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11 months

Gradually unsubtling the entire enterprise of literature until it's revealed to be nothing but two simple declarative statements. I want attention. I am afraid to die.

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The moral decision to not have a job, to lie about in bed all day reading, writing & drinking coffee so as not to contribute to the tax base subsidizing genocide abroad.

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1 year

Solid day of travel reading

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10 months

It's a shame how many celebrated books are out of print - the entire canon of a recent Nobel Prize winner, even. I've searched everywhere but haven't been able to find a single volume by this Bob Dylan.

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1 year

Just discovered Alexander Scriabin. Bangers on bangers. My summer needed a theosophist Russian Symbolist fake synesthete who died of a pimple.

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It’s a dangerous gambit to post a photo of a book you haven’t started, but I’m pretty sure I’m going to like this one.

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10 months

There are some commercial novels that I admire not as works of art but as well-executed feats of engineering.

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6 months

Prometheus stealing fire: the ultimate hot take

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9 months

New POV just dropped! Super limited third person omniscient who's not really listening! The reader isn't privy to the thoughts or feelings of any character, and the narrator's kind of thinking about something else the whole time! Get writing!

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1 year

Where's Hart Crane when you need him?

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Readers of literary fiction are supposed to be unlikeable. Writers of literary fiction are supposed to be unlovable. No need to dedicate further column space to these self-evident truths.

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"If you can talk about it, why paint it?" - Francis Bacon

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That'll never be me, each one of us, pitifully, swore.

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1 year

Do you share a birthday with an author you love? November 11th: Carlos Fuentes Fyodor Dostoevsky Kurt Vonnegut

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@BorisDralyuk

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For the first time in a decade, I find myself tremendously happy on my birthday. & I find that joy that precludes consideration of the profound suffering of others isn’t joy, but delusion.

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Some of y’all have never had a complete psychotic breakdown or beheld the effulgent face of God & it shows (in how you don’t appreciate Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer, a novel about conflating psychosis with a religious experience & finding both wanting).

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Why the Choo-Choo Chicken Tendies Meal from the Kids' Menu Is Actually an Appropriate, Even Sophisticated Order for an Adult

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“YA Isn’t Just for Young Adults”: @jiordancastle on the expansive appeal of YA literature

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1 year

Reading Harold Brodkey for the first time. The polarized response to his work promises—something. Bloom & DeLillo call him one of the best writers of his age. But many major lit publications knocked him for being verbose, self-indulgent, tedious, bogus, etc. So let’s see.

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Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover Diet Mountain Dew.

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I've been sitting with that question for about an hour now, & the best answer I can manage is: I come to literature to be shocked by the strangeness of existence, how uncanny it is that we exist, what bizarre creatures we are. Lucidly conceived, lucidly executed books feel

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