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spineless swines, cemented minds
taxi driver
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DFW tribute
Death is not the End from Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
William T. Vollmann, reading from Imperial
Forever evolving, expanding like the Cosmos....
the show must go on
gimme some money
please please please, let me get what I want
kid, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyKp0iia6...
best friend, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bkj3kFhW...
reptile, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWhV2l9QP...
the church, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8RLGgWlF...
almost with you, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWRK0Prfp...
heaven, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vHx6q9kX...
just breathe, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT7NgZa7y...
inxs, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1ImjjR3B...
b.o.c., http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utTrbSo3h...
"You don't know how to love the ones you love until they disappear abruptly. Then you understand how thinly distanced from their suffering, how sparing of self you often were, only rarely unguarded of heart, working your networks of give-and-take."
~Don DeLillo, The Body Artist
your big day, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSffLm0fj...
"Manuscripts don't burn."
~Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
"Miss Lonelyhearts, my friend, I advise you to give your readers stones. When they ask for bread don't give them crackers as does the Church, and don't, like the State, tell them to eat cake. Explain that man cannot live by bread alone and give them stones. Teach them to pray each morning: 'Give us this day our daily stone.'"
~Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
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shadows of the night, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66aqcOsnP...
reap the wild wind, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NevzImTG_...
wild is the wind, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbpMpRq6D...
bad faux literary boy, Bret Ellis (I do love him in a faux literary kind of way), reading from Lunar Park, a great book, his best, no matter what the mean (they're just jealous) critics say, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMi_58MLt...
there is a light that never goes out, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRtW1MAZ3...
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posted by MusicMom41 at 1:00 am (EST) on Dec 5, 2009
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posted by jodavid at 1:19 pm (EST) on Dec 3, 2009
posted by BeckyJG at 9:02 pm (EST) on Dec 2, 2009
Anyway, thank you for the kind words.
posted by bardsfingertips at 11:47 am (EST) on Dec 2, 2009
posted by jodavid at 10:56 am (EST) on Dec 2, 2009
Le Salon Litteraire is proud to support it's very first affiliate: Le Salon du Faulkner
There is something wrong with this, very wrong indeed. Watch out for those sneaky apostrophes...;)
posted by wisewoman at 9:35 pm (EST) on Dec 1, 2009
posted by bardsfingertips at 3:58 pm (EST) on Dec 1, 2009
I like the way you headhunt people to join Le Salon, it makes us feel all honoured. I'm wondering though what the old lags think of all us lower-order noobies in there - they've gone kinda quiet lately, that is Murr, urania, Solla, polutropus and others. Hope it's not the new order of the Masses scaring them away. (Note that I am NOT referring to ncgraham or anyone else in particular! I just mean everyone except the Grand Old Originals)
And thanks for the congrats on the review! Being Queen of the Hot List is still all fun and new for me, though WW would yawn and churn out another ten.
posted by ChocolateMuse at 2:07 am (EST) on Dec 1, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_jyXJTlr...
posted by BeckyJG at 12:07 pm (EST) on Nov 30, 2009
A question: How do I do the blue ink thing for book references? I want to do that with The Hero with a Thousand Faces, for instance, and no doubt others I might bring up in conversation.
posted by copyedit52 at 11:10 am (EST) on Nov 29, 2009
Not yet, but I am going to. I thought it was assigned reading through Le Salon (it being a dictatorship and all) so I ordered it and having paid for it, I will read it. (if I can) But I really do hate Melville or at least what I have read of him thus far in my short (ahem) lifetime. He is just so over my head or something. But I will give it the old college try!~!
Yeah, I like Kay Scarpetta. Occasionally I am pretty creeped out but I enjoy the series.
Thanx for stopping by and I will catch you on the threads.
belva
posted by nannybebette at 5:54 pm (EST) on Nov 28, 2009
belva
posted by nannybebette at 12:01 pm (EST) on Nov 28, 2009
(Is there some surprise group read for the Melville book, Pierre, 'r somethin'?)
posted by RSHabroptilus at 11:08 pm (EST) on Nov 27, 2009
It is true that he writes well. My fav. is pet semetary, where he damn well succeeds in involving the reader in the horror written in his pages.
posted by Macumbeira at 2:28 pm (EST) on Nov 27, 2009
keeping an eye on you.
posted by Macumbeira at 3:50 am (EST) on Nov 27, 2009
posted by wisewoman at 9:13 pm (EST) on Nov 25, 2009
posted by A_musing at 11:43 am (EST) on Nov 25, 2009
posted by RSHabroptilus at 10:13 pm (EST) on Nov 23, 2009
Anyway (I digress, no doubt because you're such a good listener): I certainly want to become more well-known--no, change that to merely "known by at least some"--but I'm hesitant to throw whatever of my selves does such things out there as a public figure (you might have noticed how gingerly I've entered the realm of the peuple). Though if someone else takes the ball and runs with it, I wouldn't complain.
Btw, on my book: like finding Waldo, Henry Miller makes the briefest of appearances. Not a reference to him, but the actual man. To have called attention to him would of course have thrown that chapter out of kilter, and in fact I didn't know it was him until years later, when I saw his photo on a dust jacket.
posted by copyedit52 at 5:35 pm (EST) on Nov 23, 2009
Thanks. I think I know what you mean. Funny thing about Durrell...he's like one of those solitary drunks you might encounter once in a while in a bar sitting at the end stool, or on a street waiving a squeegee at your car. Someone who launches into a disjointed spiel that fascinates but is obviously absurd. You conclude that the stranger is some sort of down at the heels intellectual suffering from alcoholism, a stroke, a mania or worse. And you move on.
Unless, the individual reminds you of an uncle, or an old friend, or yourself...in which case, you linger, listen, nod, and possibly volunteer a few dollars or a subject for their dissertation.
I tried a couple of times over the years to read the Alexandria Quartet, but never made it past a chapter or so. For some reason, however, Monsieur caught my fancy. Perhaps it was just the superficial fact that the book was a first edition hardcover and was set in gothic font. Whatever. I really got hooked, and plan to finish the rest of the quincunx, as well as a biography of Durrell, and perhaps a book on the gnostics by la carriere.
Ah well, there goes my TBR for the next month or so. It's like tripping over Alexander Theroux all over again.
Happy Thanksgiving week, peace, and all that,
G
posted by Ganeshaka at 12:57 pm (EST) on Nov 21, 2009
posted by copyedit52 at 10:17 am (EST) on Nov 21, 2009
Hey, I read Magic Christian today. Pretty damn funny. I was rolling around during the cruise, thinking back to DFW (sigh :(). And his film editing! Ahhhhh....hahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....
posted by RSHabroptilus at 2:49 am (EST) on Nov 20, 2009
posted by copyedit52 at 8:12 am (EST) on Nov 19, 2009
He really did hit it on this new one, though, didn't he? Really digs into the human psyche and lays it bare.
And, of course, he's really gross.
Have fun.
posted by BeckyJG at 12:40 am (EST) on Nov 19, 2009
posted by joltbklyn at 11:24 pm (EST) on Nov 18, 2009
haven't bothered to join the group. Isn't Les Miserable in French? I can't read French or is there some English translations of the book somewhere? Maybe I wil
join this group. The only book by Herman Melville I'm familiar with is Moby Dick,
of course. But I have never even read Moby Dick or anything by Melville before.
Beatles1964
posted by beatles1964 at 9:24 am (EST) on Nov 17, 2009
I'd love to have a Salon dedicated to Faulkner. I can't believe there aren't any Faulkner groups on LT already! Only worries are: I'd probably be the only poster, har har! At least until I get past these first two shitpiles. Maybe. Aw, I'm just bein' nervous. You should join if we make this, and take part in the Faulkner love. Eh? eh? yes? Go pick up Flags in the Dust, that will be the first major read once I finish Mosquitoes. Ooooo eeee oooo. It'd be awesome if it could be a group project. I'd be reading too fast for the group, I'm sure, but one book a month going by publication order, mayhap, I'd still join in and talk about them all, learn a lot more, too, I'm sure. Possible? or too much to reasonably expect?
I did just do a review of Soldiers' Pay as my first (or second, counting A,A!) review for Faulknerfest. Woohoo! Hope to do them all.
Oh, and I did fix the first half of my Book of Daniel review. It's much better now. :)
posted by RSHabroptilus at 1:51 am (EST) on Nov 16, 2009
posted by PekoeTheCat at 4:09 pm (EST) on Nov 15, 2009
Thank you for wishing me a better next year. I need all the good wishes I can get!
posted by Porua at 2:46 am (EST) on Nov 14, 2009
At least they do something right.
posted by BeckyJG at 10:32 pm (EST) on Nov 13, 2009
Also (going back a couple of conversations) I didn't know about Mary Karr and DFW. Interesting. I haven't read The Liar's Club, but did read Cherry, the follow up. Here's the NYT review of the newest. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/books/... Sounds good, I think. Juicy.
posted by BeckyJG at 3:04 pm (EST) on Nov 12, 2009
I'm half-working on re-writing the [d1] part of the Book of Daniel review. It's bugging the hell out of me. I'll be honest: I was wasted when I wrote it. I don't remember it at all other than I liked it. (At the time, of course.) Martin's making me want to comment on more books I read, try to find something no matter how small to say about all of them, hence the new quick scribblings.
posted by RSHabroptilus at 12:06 am (EST) on Nov 12, 2009
I wrote a major play, starring you, and it got completely lost in all the hubbub about improvements or not, and "yes, it was your fault, no it wasn't." Kind of like opening off-off Broadway as a new musical opens on Broadway.
You have to read it. It is post #38, I think, in the Improvements thread.
posted by polutropos at 1:35 pm (EST) on Nov 11, 2009
Don't you ever do that to my ol' heart again.
posted by Macumbeira at 1:45 am (EST) on Nov 11, 2009
I probably should have taken the advice to skip Faulkner's first two duds. BUT I MUSTN'T! AHGHH!
posted by RSHabroptilus at 10:59 pm (EST) on Nov 10, 2009
I recommend going back and re-reading AILD. I've read others saying it's the best intro to him, and it wouldn't surprise me if that were true. Chapters are kept short, the stream-of-c. doesn't really get out of hand to confuse the reader, the story is complicated but hardly comparable to A,A!'s complexity. It's also quick. I shot through it in an evening: very addicting, almost like a beach-read. Go go go! try it again! jump on the Faulkner wagon w/ me!
Oh Mary Karr huh huh? That's a name I've been seeing at HPB for years and years whenever I'd look for Kerouac or Kesey there she'd be. In fact, I just saw Cherry in the discount bin the other day, but after looking at the cover and seeing the word SEQUEL I tossed it back. Later, maybe. Later.
posted by RSHabroptilus at 6:05 pm (EST) on Nov 10, 2009
posted by booksfallapart at 11:02 pm (EST) on Nov 7, 2009
posted by solla at 7:19 pm (EST) on Nov 7, 2009
So, I'm giving up on the A-Z business after I finish this new Eggers. Why? Faulkner fever. I need more more more more more.
I'm interested to know what you thought of As I Lay Dying, so SHARE. I see you've read it, but haven't rated. (Didn't you tell me you gave up on Absalom recently? You have it marked as READ. I'd like to know more about your feelings in skimming Absalom and Sound+Fury, too. I'm going nuts for his stuff, and even brought along a bunch of other southern gothic writers to try out soon.)
posted by RSHabroptilus at 12:38 am (EST) on Nov 7, 2009
posted by Medellia at 3:33 pm (EST) on Nov 6, 2009
posted by bardsfingertips at 2:23 pm (EST) on Nov 6, 2009
what about TOS?
posted by tomcatMurr at 3:29 am (EST) on Nov 4, 2009
And damned be him who first cries 'Hold! Enough!'
posted by tomcatMurr at 3:29 am (EST) on Nov 4, 2009
I need to try to make my home page do what yours does, sounds very cool.
posted by ChocolateMuse at 1:22 am (EST) on Nov 4, 2009
posted by ChocolateMuse at 1:16 am (EST) on Nov 4, 2009
posted by ChocolateMuse at 12:51 am (EST) on Nov 4, 2009
I think Sukenick is the "PROFESSOR SUKENICK" from TBOD. I found one article saying it was him and was another metafictional aspect of the book, jokingly using a metawriter, but besides that...hard to find anything saying YES YES THIS IS THE RONALD SUKEY.
The same teach that recommended Bender to me also recommended that Jeanette Winterson book Le Salon's selected as a 2010 read. Guess I'll be on the prowl for her.
I don't get how you can do it. I just can't start a book w/out finishing it. Can't. Well. Once. Okay, this one single time. But that's all. It's really hard for me to leave a book unfinished.
I actually don't like bringing up my ma. I told this to Richard once, too, but whenever I bring her up I'm mining for attention or sympathy or something. Just feel schmucky. I'll suck it up and give you an (brief) update, if ye're interested. (As briefly put as possible:) She's been cooped up in her room for the past 4-6 weeks, usually with an oxygen mask of some sort on. Pah's been trying to figure out a backup power source for intense storm activity.
Good point (re: Barth+Fowles). If I love the author, I'll end up reading both versions anyway, and it'll be rad comparing them. I probably wouldn't have gone back and read the original Barth if I went through the update foist, so VERY GOOD I DID.
I've totally been out of the writing/reading mood this last week. Things need a mo'fuggin' change! NOW! And hey, I should do this NaNoWriMo...hmmm.....
The hell's Clarice Lispector?
(Oh, Freud was a minor character in one of the Robert Anton Wilson books. May have been Mask(s?) of the Illuminati. May have been Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy.)
posted by RSHabroptilus at 11:39 pm (EST) on Nov 1, 2009
Underworld was an experience. It's such a collage that it took a day or two after I finished reading it for me to put the puzzle pieces together in my subconscious and feel what I just read. You were right, in your review of The Body Artist, that DeLillo is hard to describe. There seems to be more "there" there than the mere words signify.
Along the way, I was inspired to search youtube for old Lenny Bruce performances, and even stumbled on an appearance by a very young Frank Zappa on the Steve Allen show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho37arU5-...
Peace,
G
posted by Ganeshaka at 3:21 pm (EST) on Nov 1, 2009
posted by Macumbeira at 11:44 am (EST) on Nov 1, 2009
posted by Macumbeira at 11:41 am (EST) on Nov 1, 2009
posted by Macumbeira at 12:59 am (EST) on Oct 31, 2009
I suspect there will be more than one sampling Clarel and not diving into the whole thing. I don't think it requires a full commitment to all 18,000 lines.
posted by A_musing at 12:12 pm (EST) on Oct 30, 2009
Cheers and best wishes!
Moi
posted by Boobalack at 5:34 pm (EST) on Oct 29, 2009
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
posted by polutropos at 8:16 am (EST) on Oct 29, 2009
I do thank you for your kind invitation, though, and am rather flattered.
Cheers!
La Boobalaque
posted by Boobalack at 9:29 pm (EST) on Oct 28, 2009
.......and no, i am Not a Sockpuppet (though i have a bunch i made in high school, umpteen years ago..they be olde but still have character)..and i like the thread on the Purple People Group thing......some people just don't have enough to do with their lives!!
...that's all i guess
Jude
posted by jdthloue at 3:21 pm (EST) on Oct 28, 2009
How'd you come to a better understanding of Acker? Should I maybe look into this well of knowledge as...uh...also? before hitting any of her books? I should go back to SA and get that copy of Blood 'n' Guts I saws the other day.
Tell me about this 17th c. book! Is it actually a copy dating back that far on...that? AND OH MAN ME TOO@ AIMEE BENDER! Ever since my favorite English prof. recommended this collection years ago...I wish I still had a way of contacting her. She was tiiiiiiiyiiight. I normally don't sample books like you, once I start I finish it, I can't read many at once, etc., but I went out of my way to sample her after your request and read the first short story and let me just say A W E S O M E. (Warning: It's only 4 or 5 pages and likely not an exact representation on the whole collection's quality.)
YOU AND RICHARD BOTH have got me super excited for Fowles gawddamn I can't wait to try him out. I've been bogged down really bogged by school books lately (even if they are great [DOCTOROW]) so I'm way behind on my own reading plans, and I think even Pynchon's unfinished-ness is slowing down my reading in general. It's bugging the fuck out of me. (Also: I can't believe you only read like 20 books a year wow.)
My local friend invited me out to Colorado come Dec. (and maybe into next semester if I want to take a break from school [doubtful]) to work on a WIND FARM. May. May not. My own fambly wants me here, helping out in my mom's final months (disgustingly hopefully--I just want this OVER, weights LIFTED, GONE--a part of me just wants to yell DIE ALREADY).
Back to Fowles sort of related to Fowles at least I read the original v. of Barth's Floating Opera before I knew he revised it and was disappointed there. In that case, it's oft regarded that the revised ed. fixed all the issues the original had, and returned material the publishers found too offensive, initially. While I'm sure this situation is completely dif., the idea that I may be wasting my time still bothers me. (Did I waste my time on the original FO? I wish I still had it to compare. I want to read the revised ed.! Now! And I want to read the original versions of End of the Road and Sot-Weed! What kind of differences do THOSE books have? huh!?!?!? Oy, I'm talking to myself too much.)
I'm already getting bored with my second A-Z proj. introducing nonfiction into the mix.
posted by RSHabroptilus at 3:32 am (EST) on Oct 28, 2009
posted by BeckyJG at 2:30 am (EST) on Oct 28, 2009
I am consoled, however, by a certain someone intimately connected with Katrina.
posted by ChocolateMuse at 12:05 am (EST) on Oct 28, 2009
posted by slickdpdx at 7:53 pm (EST) on Oct 27, 2009
It's fun, and does nice things for my ego, but I don't think it truly reflects the quality of the review.
But thanks for the compliment, and indeed, if you yourself were not worthy (and how could you not be, what a preposterous idea) your sock puppets would make up for it :) though I'm still wondering who some of them are...
posted by ChocolateMuse at 7:41 pm (EST) on Oct 27, 2009
posted by slickdpdx at 12:15 pm (EST) on Oct 27, 2009
While hanging out on Murrushka's profile page (because mine is so boring right now), I noticed you had posted a link to "You Are in My System." What is this song? The official anthem of LT? Did Tim hire them? I wish I were a sock puppet; it would be so much more interesting than being me. All I get to do is spread compost, plant, weed, dig, milk goats, and read. Now if I were a sock puppet . . .
posted by urania1 at 2:41 am (EST) on Oct 27, 2009
J
and you added LONDON FIELDS...good....
posted by jdthloue at 6:53 pm (EST) on Oct 26, 2009
How much are the dues?
Of what does the initiation consist?
When, where and how often are the meetings held?
And, most important, will there be food and something to drink, other than coffee -- Pepsi, perhaps?
Now, back to beddy-bye. ::Yawn.::
posted by Boobalack at 2:42 am (EST) on Oct 26, 2009
posted by ChocolateMuse at 9:46 pm (EST) on Oct 25, 2009
"My dear" is fine since that's what most people call little old ladies. Tee hee hee. I knew I'd be an lol one day -- just never expected it to be so soon. Such is life in the fast lane.
Cheers!
La Boobalaque
PeeEss~What a pretty child in your profile pic!
posted by Boobalack at 6:26 pm (EST) on Oct 24, 2009
posted by urania1 at 2:17 pm (EST) on Oct 24, 2009
posted by wisewoman at 10:19 am (EST) on Oct 24, 2009
A longer project (~288 pages) that I've been wanting to tackle is The Dwarf by Par Lagerkvist. I have not read this book, but here's a description to wet your reading palate: "'I have noticed that sometimes I frighten people; what they really fear is themselves. They think it is I who scare them, but it is the dwarf within them, the ape-faced manlike being who sticks up his head from the depths of their souls.' Pär Lagerkvist's richly philosophical novel The Dwarf is an exploration of individual and social identity. The novel, set in a time when Italian towns feuded over the outcome of the last feud, centers on a social outcast, the court dwarf PIccoline. From his special vantage point Piccoline comments on the court's prurience and on political intrigue as the town is gripped by a siege. Gradually, Piccoline is drawn deeper and deeper into the conflict, and he inspires fear and hate around him as he grows to represent the fascination of the masses with violence."
P.S. I will get Clarice Lispector up and going. I've been playing around on LT and reading a book about the development of Indian cuisine and another by a former colleague of mine entitled Was Hinduism Invented. I am slowly but surely amassing enough knowledge about India and Hinduism to really go forth with what will probably be the major read of my remaining years: THe Mahabharata - the real one, not the condensed versions.
posted by urania1 at 10:03 pm (EST) on Oct 23, 2009
The things I read on the Rio seemed pretty safe. Most of the campgrounds for the park are right along there, too. I'll have to be stopping by the visitor's center before I set down on the trail itself, so I'll be getting a decent map around that time. I think we'll run into a few caves (maybe even old mines? did I read there were a couple on there? hm).
So I just went to a library sale today and got a bunch of books, including Fowles' the Magus. I asked Richard about this too, but the copy I got was published in '70, and according to the Interwebs, Fowles released a greatly revised edition in '77. Do you know anything about the differences? Should I ignore the copy I got today and hold off for a revised one?
posted by RSHabroptilus at 8:32 pm (EST) on Oct 23, 2009
Can't wait to finish and write a review.
posted by BeckyJG at 7:23 pm (EST) on Oct 23, 2009
posted by urania1 at 10:40 pm (EST) on Oct 21, 2009
posted by tomcatMurr at 10:40 pm (EST) on Oct 18, 2009
Using this map as a basic guide I was thinkin' we'd leave early--about an 8.5- to 9.5-hour drive--park at the Lost Mine Trail and take that short little excursion, hopefully getting back near sundown, go to a major camping area and just set up there for the night. We'd wake up the next day--and here's where plans get less developed--and head south, basically going and staying on or around the clusterfuck of trails you see around Emory Peak. I'm a little confused on where one can camp around those trails, since according to these maps there aren't any primitive sites or anything even close to these trails. That can't be right...I'm not sure how long all of that will take us, but according to this top ten list of things to do there, the best trails are all aroud that middle area. What I really would love to do is canoe down the Rio Grande for 3 or 4 days...but I should probably take a canoeing class or somethin' first...
I just hope we can pull it off in November or the first week of Dec., or it'll be freezing at night! We're really pushing it!
First thing I gotta do come Nov. is buy a $100 backpack. Up in WA I lived entirely on borrowed equipment, only spending about $30 on food for the entire trip. I'm not excited about having to find the monies this time for all the equipment/food/etc.
Well, surely more than you asked for. But eh.
posted by RSHabroptilus at 6:56 pm (EST) on Oct 18, 2009
Huh.
posted by RSHabroptilus at 6:31 pm (EST) on Oct 18, 2009
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384642/
:) There are two movies with the same name.
posted by RSHabroptilus at 5:58 pm (EST) on Oct 18, 2009
I care for the elderly auntie, and The Divine Miss supports me for so doing. I also do the house-running chores for the Long Island house, and TDM does those for the NYC apartment. That way we get to have both places and the auntie isn't in a home.
She's better at business than I am. I have more patience for the elderly than she has, plus I don't freak out when I have to drive more than 2mi from home. And I cook well. So it works out for all concerned.
Glad you liked the review. And it's time to archive those comments!
xoxo
posted by richardderus at 5:25 pm (EST) on Oct 18, 2009
posted by Porua at 2:04 pm (EST) on Oct 18, 2009
posted by BeckyJG at 12:12 pm (EST) on Oct 18, 2009
posted by BeckyJG at 12:02 am (EST) on Oct 18, 2009
posted by Porua at 1:09 pm (EST) on Oct 17, 2009
posted by Porua at 10:31 am (EST) on Oct 17, 2009
posted by devondoyle at 3:23 am (EST) on Oct 17, 2009
Can you correct the spelling in one of the threads I started. i cannot change the title.
Thanks
posted by Macumbeira at 3:21 am (EST) on Oct 17, 2009
posted by slickdpdx at 2:29 pm (EST) on Oct 16, 2009
posted by Aeyan at 9:13 pm (EST) on Oct 14, 2009
Compare author photos.
I ask you, was Shel Silverstein really Anton Levay? I mean, to my knowledge nobody ever saw them in the same room at the same time.
Makes you go hmmm.
posted by BeckyJG at 3:51 am (EST) on Oct 14, 2009
(Sometimes it almost sounded like ye're suggesting folks hold their gas in, keep it a secret from the world outside their shaking sphincters what? No? right? no???)
posted by RSHabroptilus at 1:18 am (EST) on Oct 13, 2009
posted by RSHabroptilus at 1:11 am (EST) on Oct 13, 2009
Give me about a week to send the book. I want the chance to go back to my other house on the weekend and pick up another spare story collection I've been trying forever to persuade you to read. ;)
posted by RSHabroptilus at 2:35 am (EST) on Oct 12, 2009
posted by RSHabroptilus at 12:14 am (EST) on Oct 12, 2009
posted by RSHabroptilus at 10:18 pm (EST) on Oct 11, 2009
(More info from his daughter. The other article has the date wrong.)
posted by RSHabroptilus at 1:58 pm (EST) on Oct 10, 2009
I just looked on Wikipedia, and it mysteriously said '(1929-2009)' and a quick Google search led me to this...
Raymond Federman passed away just 3 days ago.
To answer yr question, the book I found was To Whom It May Concern: which, in all honesty, sounds from the synopsis a tad lame, but after flipping through it and reading a few excerpts I know it'll be a treat.
posted by RSHabroptilus at 1:47 pm (EST) on Oct 10, 2009
posted by PekoeTheCat at 1:04 pm (EST) on Oct 10, 2009
No, but really, if that Cutting Edges has anything interesting to say about Bumpus or Wurlitzer, lemme know. I wouldn't mind hearing what it says about Brautigan, too.
If you really are interested in checking out those Fiction Collective authors, L. McCarthy had good things to say about all of them except B.H. Friedman (too generic; a little boring), Mimi Albert (same as before), and Simckes (same as before + incredibly lack of voice bringing it down). He compared a lot of the good ones to writers like Barth and Barthelme and Coover.
I've been reading a little bit of Jonathan Baumbach's Reruns, and, tho only 20 pages in, it's absolutely great. Exactly the sort of fiction DFW is talking about in 'E Unibus Pluram' (you may have noticed that particular essay has really influenced me since reading it, as half the garbage I spew out is almost verbatim from it): (from what I gather) it's an author recounting his life in short vignettes and he seems to constantly start blending his life in with television and movies. Very dreamlike so far. Oh, and the director of Kicking & Screaming ('90s v., not the one with Will Ferrel(l?)) and the Squid & the Whale, Noah Baumbach, is his son.
posted by RSHabroptilus at 1:57 am (EST) on Oct 10, 2009
"a pellucid dream of the aberrant American landscape. The protagonist of this tantalizing and unique first novel is a fastidioulsy occult New York psychiatrist, but its hero is Kelvin, his Ur-Rolls Royce. When people are at last force to live in their cars, Kelvin will come highly recommended - and totally equipped..."Together he and his owner set out for Fort Lauderdale in quest of the Scorpion people (who may or may not exist). Their journey becomes a fantasy peculiar to real life after the Marquis de Sade. Carl Jung and, for that matter, Sherlock Holmes. THE SCORPIONS is an overwhelming lunge of the imagination, with extensions in myth and allegory, mysticism and science fantasy, and probably alchemy as well. Its originality is immediately apparent and alwaays sustained, a pageant of the leusive surfaces of a world gone not so much mad as blatant: obsessed with and tormented by loveless ritual, ludicrous violence and terrifying visions self-inflicted and tenaciously endured. A true story."
I added that last bit, but you get the idea.
posted by slickdpdx at 1:11 am (EST) on Oct 10, 2009
posted by slickdpdx at 12:49 am (EST) on Oct 10, 2009
posted by slickdpdx at 12:10 am (EST) on Oct 10, 2009
Short, lovely, poignant, and I still remember her description of her Aunt Felicita as a Gertrude-Steinie misfit among the aristos she sprang from.
posted by richardderus at 4:38 pm (EST) on Oct 9, 2009
posted by RSHabroptilus at 7:36 pm (EST) on Oct 8, 2009
"Wow, this is some book, I mean it's more than a beautiful and heavy trip, it's also very important in an evolutionary way, showing us directions we could be moving in--hopefully another sign that the Novel of Bullshit is dead and some kind of re-enlightenment is beginning to arrive, to take hold. Rudolph Wurlitzer is really, really good, and I hope he manages to come down again soon, long enough anyhow to guide us on another one like Nog."
--Thomas Pynchon
(...and complimenting that: "This is an excellent book, full of unhealthy mental excitement." --Donald Barthelme.)
WOAHHH, what did I find?!?!
posted by RSHabroptilus at 6:54 pm (EST) on Oct 8, 2009
It's not so much of a tough read...just an involved read. Because it is all first-person narration, I found reading it partially aloud really helps it jell.
posted by bardsfingertips at 6:15 pm (EST) on Oct 8, 2009
posted by bardsfingertips at 6:11 pm (EST) on Oct 8, 2009
Will continue to read past page one.
posted by RSHabroptilus at 10:17 pm (EST) on Oct 7, 2009
FW is meant for group discussion. I'd never understand a word w/o help.
posted by RSHabroptilus at 1:36 am (EST) on Oct 7, 2009
I totally forgot to get back to you on the Infinite Jest deal. On being co-leader, I was about to ask you what responsibilities one is entrusted w/, but now I'm seeing "provide weekly commentary" is about it. Hmm hmm hmmmmmmmm. I'll take part in a discussion before then, and also see if I'm up for re-reading IJ so very soon after my first trip (& it really was a trip). I'm not gonna lie, beyond the brilliance of every single page, it could be fucking dense at times: extremely difficult to slog thru--esp. those endnotes that went on and on and on for pages in size 4 font.
Re-reading it w/ the group would definitely be helpful in coming to a strong understanding of it, b/c I gotta face the facts: I missed a lot.
posted by RSHabroptilus at 1:33 am (EST) on Oct 7, 2009
Vollmann's Imperial reviewed in Rain Taxi.
posted by slickdpdx at 6:10 pm (EST) on Oct 5, 2009
I can't imagine having a drunk reading party, everyone gathered round and chuckling over excerpts from Finnegans Wake. That's like that one tale you hear about Kafka laughing tears with buddies over his own fiction.
Two more obscure names from Fiction Collective: Leon Rooke & Elaine Kraf.
posted by RSHabroptilus at 11:30 pm (EST) on Oct 3, 2009
posted by urania1 at 11:17 pm (EST) on Oct 3, 2009
& oh yes, this Stephen Dixon I just got has praise from both John Barth & Grace Paley! Ever read any Dixon? I saw this Frog in a bookstore 4+ years ago and have been kicking myself until last week for not getting it. DFW praised him a lot, too. (I think.)
posted by RSHabroptilus at 2:20 am (EST) on Oct 2, 2009
So I've been looking up a bunch of authors: I got the rest of the Katz books in this afternoon and in one of them was a list of other books also published by the same house (Fiction Collective) including guys like Russell Banks and Sukenick and Federman. The rest I'd never heard of. So I looked them up. Hardly anyone else has heard of them either, but some of them sound terrific:
Jonathan Baumbach
B.H. Friedman
Peter Spielberg
Mark Mirsk
Mimi Albert
Jerry Bumpus
Clarence Major
Marianne Hauser
Seymour Simckes
Juan M. Alonso
Thomas Glynn
George Chambers
Andree Connors
Now, a lot of them I simply couldn't find any info on no matter how hard I looked (not very hard--Amazon & LT only), but then there were a couple that are worth serious note:
Marianne Hauser's The Talking Room praised by both Steve Katz ("Nabokov, roll over," he sez) and Anais Nin.
& George Chambers. One of the books he wrote, not the one listed in Moving Parts by Katz, is called Twilight of the Bums--go ahead, look it up...notice anything? yeah! yeah! it's co-written by Raymond Federman! about Federman! and Chambers! as old bums! Ahh, you probably already knew it.
Baumbach's short stories sound terrific, too.
posted by RSHabroptilus at 12:48 am (EST) on Oct 2, 2009
Absalom, Absalom! no doubt! She plots against me!
posted by RSHabroptilus at 11:00 pm (EST) on Oct 1, 2009
THIS IS WAR.
posted by RSHabroptilus at 10:39 pm (EST) on Oct 1, 2009
I love the new picture on the Salon! You make my day every day!
posted by tomcatMurr at 11:42 am (EST) on Oct 1, 2009
You may have noticed, but I have my own doomsday-like (equal in shamefulness) stuff I read back in high school: a bunch of holocaust revisionist books. That's what listening to black metal gets ya!
Philip Roth will forever have those claims of sexism following him. He totally is a sexist, the silly bastard. I still need to read more by him; it's been years, but what I have read, while good overall, was underwhelming, esp. after seeing him among the 20th c. greats like Pynchon & DeLillo.
Nigel Tomm sounds like a fucking tool. I read some reviews and samples of the Blah Story and some of the Shakespeare mashups and it's masturbatory garbage: absolutely MEANINGLESS. God, fuck this guy. I already hate him.
The C&D is confusing: says first printing, but the # line goes down only to 2, so, uh, I guess by 'printing' they meant edition, and it's a second printing? Aww. Still awesome, tho. Will be a while before I get to it, as I'm doing another A-Z experiment, a fiction and a non- for each letter in this sort of order: A fiction B non- C fiction A non- B fiction C non- and then another chunk of three letters.
Started the scroll ed. of On the Road this day @ the local park, and holy shit it's boss as hell. Mucho better than the original published v. if you ask me. Have to give a speech on him next week. I'm thinking of ignoring the based-on-articles rule and just giving a general Beat history w/ lots of interesting facts and recite a bunch of poems from faves like O'Hara and Ferlinghetti.
And so on and so on and so on.
And fuck Nigel Tomm again. What an asshole. Ugh.
posted by RSHabroptilus at 11:58 pm (EST) on Sep 30, 2009
--Taken from the back of my new 1st ed. hardback copy of Creamy & Delicious, which is now at this moment being held & admired in my free hand.
posted by RSHabroptilus at 4:09 pm (EST) on Sep 29, 2009
Before: $0.20.
After: $42.
posted by RSHabroptilus at 10:15 pm (EST) on Sep 28, 2009
A quick Google search reveals that one fellow published his unpublished novel entirely through Twitter in order to get the attention of a publisher (doing this feat got him a deal--based on this act, not on quality, but he seems to fancy himself as a modern Dickens[?]). A woman named Robin Abrahams may or may not be writing a "Novel in Tweets," to be honest, I can't really tell. And at least a few people are throwing the idea around.
posted by RSHabroptilus at 10:02 pm (EST) on Sep 28, 2009
Yeah, I'm just distracting myself from my writing an essay right now. I'll give you proper responses when I actually finish this. I'm completely overloaded on information for this and am currently struggling to organize it into something comprehensible and yet only 5 or 6 pages long. Tuff stuff.
posted by RSHabroptilus at 9:55 pm (EST) on Sep 28, 2009
Well, back to reading essays essays and more essays! Got my own to write this evenin'. Interesting, yet boringg. Really...fucking...boring...
(Just finished an Antrim novel. Enjoyed it, sometimes a lot, but yet I felt after a certain number of pages like the underlying message(s) was bullshit and all he was really saying measured up to being nothing more than Look how pomo I can be!)
posted by RSHabroptilus at 6:25 pm (EST) on Sep 28, 2009
20 reproductions with comments. Just found out at Amazon it is worth 350 _ 750 usd and I just dug it out of one of the book - boxes I still have the empty after moving into my new house ( nine yeras ago !)
posted by Macumbeira at 12:19 am (EST) on Sep 28, 2009
-G
posted by Ganeshaka at 11:20 am (EST) on Sep 26, 2009
Sheesh, am I that old?!
posted by richardderus at 9:49 am (EST) on Sep 26, 2009
TTFN
posted by richardderus at 1:34 pm (EST) on Sep 25, 2009
(If you ever want to share addresses, I'll send you a copy of that one, too. Damn good collection.)
Give me more (names)!
posted by RSHabroptilus at 9:55 pm (EST) on Sep 24, 2009
It's kinda disturbing.
posted by RSHabroptilus at 8:56 pm (EST) on Sep 24, 2009
Is this Jay the same Jay as wrote a Journal?
My youger brother lived at a 666 address in Chicago. tHE WORST OF IT WAS DRUNK TEENAGERS coming over in the dead of night and cutting the adddress down.
posted by slickdpdx at 6:25 pm (EST) on Sep 24, 2009
Really? Or was that typed with an obnoxiously quirked brow, indicating the level of your soi-disant intellectual contempt for his bourgeois ramblings?
Please say yes to the latter, or my preconceived notions will need adjusting that I simply don't feel up to.
xoxo
posted by richardderus at 2:56 pm (EST) on Sep 24, 2009
Weeeeelllllll, Dave Eggers really doesn't fit along with these guys. To an extent, stylistically and, uh, well...stylistically, he does, but his writing is also a bit on the light side. Not too deep. Never requires any sort of research to extract an underlying meaning to it. (Plus, half of it's biography by this point.) Like a fast foodified v. of DFW, maybe?
Well, do like your new profile. Much neater. I need to hurry up and drop the lists that make up 99% of mine. Flippin' lists, man...yeah....
Speaking of Creamy & Delic.: Yeah...yeah...only bought that...right. Koff koff. Don't look now.* I really went overboard tonight on ordering books that have been eluding my clutches/eyes for years. (Boy, let me tell you, C&D was expensive, too. Like $16 w/ shipping.)
Haw haw, thx for the kind words on my Faulkner, but come on, it ain't so great (I've shared it w/ a few friends--most refused to read it due to length, or thought it was a rambling mess in need of paragraph breaks [I think one didn't even notice it was only 3 sentences...])! Had a blast doing it, and today I learn I gotta write yet another essay on that sucker for my lit. class! yarghhh! At least by this point it'll come off easy...
(Just finished Hurston's book, and TBH, I wasn't really planning to write anything over that, but your friend Mr. Chock-Full seems to have requested it; ideas are now circulating--a little bit. On that book: Didn't really leave much of an impression, and I kind of skipped most of the classes we discussed it in. Not bad, just...you know...there. I'm still trying to find a really kickass female writer to compliment my 100% [?] male list [!] of favorites--SO I'M STARTING GRACE PALEY! If I remember right, she was yr suggestion!)
I had read yr Body Artist review earlier that (21st) day, and I'm glad you finally found a DeLillo novel(la) strong enough to leave such an impression on you.
*You have some secret method of keeping up w/ friends' updates, huh? I only really link to my own profile; maybe I should be really hunting around elsewhere, or actually using the connections page, whatever it is you do. And along these lines, maybe I should start using the flippin' message boards here, rather than the generic books board on IMDb where anyone with remotely similar tastes to my own come off as academic and boring and/or young and boring and even more naive than myself.
That's it for the newer stuff; now a reply to yr last post:
How's cleaning up your library going? Get any done @ all? On DFW's IJ, I picked up a 1st ed. too about 6 months prior to his hanging himself, and I even remember picking up (I paid $25) that meeting DFW and getting this beautiful goddamn' book signed is something I would be accomplishing in my lifetime. "He's young, he'll live and write so much more!" slipped thru my mind as my eyes glazed over in these selfish imaginings of our perfect and heavenly meeting. God, I can't believe the fucker killed himself. What a dick. I'm so happy I finally got round to Supposedly Fun Thing--adored the hell out of it. So very entertaining, and he...was just so brilliant. I think one of my new fillings is loose, or something. Man, this thing's pounding, painful right now. Anyway, fug, I wish I could find a 1st ed. of Broom. Those things were super expensive even pre-author death....yep...ayuh.
posted by RSHabroptilus at 3:21 am (EST) on Sep 23, 2009
props to you, Sir Freeque
Jude
*oops, we have 56 books on common...i swoon, i gasp...i chortle*
posted by jdthloue at 2:35 pm (EST) on Sep 22, 2009
thumbs up from this Belgian
posted by Macumbeira at 12:38 pm (EST) on Sep 21, 2009
posted by richardderus at 9:43 am (EST) on Sep 19, 2009
posted by anna_in_pdx at 7:39 pm (EST) on Sep 17, 2009
posted by BeckyJG at 1:22 pm (EST) on Sep 17, 2009
posted by anna_in_pdx at 11:08 am (EST) on Sep 17, 2009
I was quiet confused when I saw that pic for the first time because everybody is
focusing on the magical mumbo jumbo, the platonic love story and the Jesus - Pontius relationship and everybody forgets that there are quiet some sexy scenes too in M&M
The picture is indeed me, but when I was much younger. My mam caught me to give met a good washing and my dad took the pic ! : )
posted by Macumbeira at 3:12 am (EST) on Sep 17, 2009
:-)
posted by EnriqueFreeque at 7:24 pm (EST) on Sep 16, 2009
posted by Macumbeira at 7:06 pm (EST) on Sep 16, 2009
posted by solla at 8:24 pm (EST) on Sep 13, 2009
I will do a review of Sadika's Way very soon.... Thanks again for sending it to me!
posted by anna_in_pdx at 11:59 am (EST) on Sep 10, 2009
it sounds a bit screwy like this. It doensn't really translate well.
Better options would be :
Le Salon populaire litteraire ( or )
Le Salon litteraire du peuple pour le peuple
posted by Macumbeira at 2:26 am (EST) on Sep 10, 2009
I am "in" like Errol Flynn
posted by Macumbeira at 1:34 am (EST) on Sep 10, 2009
Is the Literary LA in hand being read? I can't wait for a review of that. I always intend to actually read more about my city, but somehow get distracted. Chicago and Harry Dresden have been occupying me too much of late.
posted by Aeyan at 11:42 pm (EST) on Sep 9, 2009
posted by Macumbeira at 6:06 pm (EST) on Sep 9, 2009
posted by Macumbeira at 5:57 pm (EST) on Sep 9, 2009
Arellano's "Ask a Mexican" is some tee-riffic stuff. Enjoy.
xoxo
RMD
posted by richardderus at 10:44 pm (EST) on Sep 8, 2009
posted by LolaWalser at 8:59 am (EST) on Sep 5, 2009
I sent the edit of your first chapter, btw. I'm curious what your thoughts will be.
posted by wisewoman at 10:53 am (EST) on Sep 3, 2009
posted by solla at 9:41 pm (EST) on Sep 2, 2009
posted by Medellia at 10:13 am (EST) on Sep 2, 2009
Seriously, I read the description of Exiting Nirvana and it does sound very interesting. It's been years since I read the Siege, and I'd like to know what's happened since.
posted by solla at 11:02 pm (EST) on Aug 31, 2009
A pet peeve of mine in the realms of fiction writing is the mystic-bond-between-twins trope in lots of romantic/horror/supernatural writing. OhfaGawdsake. I read an historical novel by Cecelia Holland recently, disappointed to find that festering in an otherwise ~meh~ book.
I think I am become Death. I can kill anything Oppenheimer's babys leave behind with my taciturn testiness.
Hug your wife from me.
RMD
posted by richardderus at 11:33 pm (EST) on Aug 30, 2009
I think, you can find the book in my library
posted by Macumbeira at 12:52 am (EST) on Aug 30, 2009
Lisa
-Scientists say that conversation is a dance. Body movements of the listener, such as eye blinks and hand gestures, are synchronized with the speaker's speech rhythms and/or body movements. But this hasn’t been found to be true of children with autism.
In a tea shop you’d twirl the cups.
In a shoe store you’d stack the boxes high.
A pawn shop would make you sing; you’d
line up crystal and tap to make it ping,
and run away when it all goes falling,
and hide your face when it all goes falling.
I try to catch your eyes; you look at air.
Scientists map the dance of words,
speak, follow, bodies move in space and rhyme,
but you don’t dance. You can’t.
Lisa, I speak your name, you look at air.
How may I find you, let you rest,
sailor home from the sea.
The cups spin out. The boxes crash
and crystal breaks. Your mouth opens
but no sound comes.
How can I find, a rhythm larger
or smaller, lullaby, a dance for you,
Wynken, Blinken, and Nod,
that old soft shoe,
me who can not dance, who has no rhythm,
no style, all awkward stumbling limbs.
No choice then, but to step the dance
that is no dance and sing the song that
is no song, and lift you high upon my shoulders.
For, I can’t dance, but how can I not dance,
Lisa, for you.
You move as I move; my hands hold your legs,
your arms cradle my head, till I forget
legs, arms, foot, knee, elbow, and all else but
you and me and the dance. And just
then you laugh gentle as sea foam.
You bend your head down to see.
Your smile is upside down, your eyes are upside down.
your upside down eyes, green as the sea, your
eyes look straight into my eyes.
posted by solla at 11:27 pm (EST) on Aug 29, 2009
posted by solla at 2:15 am (EST) on Aug 29, 2009
posted by anna_in_pdx at 9:55 pm (EST) on Aug 27, 2009