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OK, it's that time of the year. What's the best book you have read in 2024?
December 30, 2024 at 10:35 AM
OK, it's that time of the year. What's the best book you have read in 2024?
Merry Christmas Bookworms!! 🎶❤️
December 25, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Merry Christmas Bookworms!! 🎶❤️
gotta say that reading The Names and Finnegans Wake at the same time is a pretty sneaky mix
*introducing the Finnegans Wake abecedarian doomsday cult
*introducing the Finnegans Wake abecedarian doomsday cult
December 7, 2024 at 5:08 PM
gotta say that reading The Names and Finnegans Wake at the same time is a pretty sneaky mix
*introducing the Finnegans Wake abecedarian doomsday cult
*introducing the Finnegans Wake abecedarian doomsday cult
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Zachary Issenberg includes Michele Mari's Verdigris in his Year in Reading for The Millions. From slugs to whales! 🐳 @andotherstories.bsky.social
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December 6, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Zachary Issenberg includes Michele Mari's Verdigris in his Year in Reading for The Millions. From slugs to whales! 🐳 @andotherstories.bsky.social
themillions.com/2024/12/year...
themillions.com/2024/12/year...
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Today's #WaferThinBook (Nonfic Nov): Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century by Patrik Ourednik, tr. Gerald Turner (2011, 122p.)
Sometimes mislabeled a novel, Europe's violent 20th century told in "snapshots" by a master "photographer" and cynic. Creative nonfiction (that's not memoir).
Sometimes mislabeled a novel, Europe's violent 20th century told in "snapshots" by a master "photographer" and cynic. Creative nonfiction (that's not memoir).
November 30, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Today's #WaferThinBook (Nonfic Nov): Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century by Patrik Ourednik, tr. Gerald Turner (2011, 122p.)
Sometimes mislabeled a novel, Europe's violent 20th century told in "snapshots" by a master "photographer" and cynic. Creative nonfiction (that's not memoir).
Sometimes mislabeled a novel, Europe's violent 20th century told in "snapshots" by a master "photographer" and cynic. Creative nonfiction (that's not memoir).
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The best colloquial Scottish phrase I've come across for describing someone who is boastful or conceited, heard in Aberdeen, is “he thinks he’s the cheese, but he’s only the stink.”
November 30, 2024 at 2:49 PM
The best colloquial Scottish phrase I've come across for describing someone who is boastful or conceited, heard in Aberdeen, is “he thinks he’s the cheese, but he’s only the stink.”
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Donald Barthelme’s Forty Stories in reverse, Part IV biblioklept.org/2024/11/29/d...
Donald Barthelme’s Forty Stories in reverse, Part IV
Previously, Stories 40-36 Stories 35-32 Stories 31-28 27. “Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby” (Amateurs, 1976) This is probably the first essential story in Forty Stories…
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November 30, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Donald Barthelme’s Forty Stories in reverse, Part IV biblioklept.org/2024/11/29/d...
finished reading this 403-page long paranoid sentence—Krasznahorkai confirms that he is a peerless cartographer of our natural habitat: the apocalyptic state of mind
don’t forget: ‘Hope is a mistake’
don’t forget: ‘Hope is a mistake’
November 29, 2024 at 6:35 PM
finished reading this 403-page long paranoid sentence—Krasznahorkai confirms that he is a peerless cartographer of our natural habitat: the apocalyptic state of mind
don’t forget: ‘Hope is a mistake’
don’t forget: ‘Hope is a mistake’
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Some of my “volcanic” books.
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November 27, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Some of my “volcanic” books.
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my cold take: Krasznahorkai's unbroken prose doesn't flow/trickle down the page, it rushes like a tightrope runner to the edge of something unnameable (perhaps a terminal freakness before the death knell) 🎡
November 27, 2024 at 5:19 PM
my cold take: Krasznahorkai's unbroken prose doesn't flow/trickle down the page, it rushes like a tightrope runner to the edge of something unnameable (perhaps a terminal freakness before the death knell) 🎡
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reading these waterfall-like pages for hours on end puts you into a kind of emergency trance: is an apocalypse, nothingness or a hypnotic collapse looming just around the corner? 🌡️
November 26, 2024 at 5:35 PM
reading these waterfall-like pages for hours on end puts you into a kind of emergency trance: is an apocalypse, nothingness or a hypnotic collapse looming just around the corner? 🌡️
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William Faulkner's Recipe for Curing Ham biblioklept.org/2024/11/25/w...
William Faulkner’s Recipe for Curing Ham
The following is from a 1942 letter from William Faulkner to his son-in-law William Fielden, instructing the young man on the author’s preferences for curing recently-slaughtered pork. From T…
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November 26, 2024 at 1:29 AM
William Faulkner's Recipe for Curing Ham biblioklept.org/2024/11/25/w...
180 pages in and I am thisclose to sending a letter to warn Angela Merkel that the apocalypse is not only a lethal mirror image of reality but the natural state of life ✉️
November 25, 2024 at 5:46 PM
180 pages in and I am thisclose to sending a letter to warn Angela Merkel that the apocalypse is not only a lethal mirror image of reality but the natural state of life ✉️
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Grande il monologo del Papa Francesco delle pagine 221-231.
“… con le mie povere palle papali in mano …”
#AntonioMoresco “Canto del buio e della luce”
#booksky💙📚
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“… con le mie povere palle papali in mano …”
#AntonioMoresco “Canto del buio e della luce”
#booksky💙📚
@theuntranslated.bsky.social
@henrirst.bsky.social
November 24, 2024 at 11:37 PM
Grande il monologo del Papa Francesco delle pagine 221-231.
“… con le mie povere palle papali in mano …”
#AntonioMoresco “Canto del buio e della luce”
#booksky💙📚
@theuntranslated.bsky.social
@henrirst.bsky.social
“… con le mie povere palle papali in mano …”
#AntonioMoresco “Canto del buio e della luce”
#booksky💙📚
@theuntranslated.bsky.social
@henrirst.bsky.social
oddly disquieting isn't it? Krasznahorkai’s Herscht 07769 delves into the same subatomic chaos 👀⚛️
November 23, 2024 at 6:50 PM
oddly disquieting isn't it? Krasznahorkai’s Herscht 07769 delves into the same subatomic chaos 👀⚛️
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Okay select your favorite USA writer:
1) Gerald Murnane
2) Yoko Tawada
3) Antonio Lobo Antunes
1) Gerald Murnane
2) Yoko Tawada
3) Antonio Lobo Antunes
November 23, 2024 at 10:40 AM
Okay select your favorite USA writer:
1) Gerald Murnane
2) Yoko Tawada
3) Antonio Lobo Antunes
1) Gerald Murnane
2) Yoko Tawada
3) Antonio Lobo Antunes
finished my first reading of this paranoid novella; don’t worry flotsams carried by the waves of disaster, there are no sheltered places for us—we have to keep marching through the night, keep going, going, going ever onward…
November 23, 2024 at 2:44 AM
finished my first reading of this paranoid novella; don’t worry flotsams carried by the waves of disaster, there are no sheltered places for us—we have to keep marching through the night, keep going, going, going ever onward…
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I worked on A Silence Shared for too long to think of it as a novella, but I'll accept the label from @jacquiwine.bsky.social !😆
"Romano excels in creating an intimate, emotionally charged atmosphere... It’s a beautiful ode to stillness and silence, all expressed in Romano’s subtle, poetic prose."
"Romano excels in creating an intimate, emotionally charged atmosphere... It’s a beautiful ode to stillness and silence, all expressed in Romano’s subtle, poetic prose."
New on the blog today, I've written about ten haunting, atmospheric novellas I highly recommend.
Featuring books by Yūko Tsushima, Jhumpa Lahiri, Lalla Romano, Elisa Shua Dusapin & more. Lots for #WITMonth readers to enjoy here! #TranslationThurs, too! 💙📚
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Featuring books by Yūko Tsushima, Jhumpa Lahiri, Lalla Romano, Elisa Shua Dusapin & more. Lots for #WITMonth readers to enjoy here! #TranslationThurs, too! 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2024/11/21/t...
Ten haunting, atmospheric novellas I highly recommend
November seems to be a very popular time for themed cultural events, ranging from German Lit Month (which focus on books originally written in the German language) and #Noirvember (a tradition of w…
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November 22, 2024 at 4:14 PM
I worked on A Silence Shared for too long to think of it as a novella, but I'll accept the label from @jacquiwine.bsky.social !😆
"Romano excels in creating an intimate, emotionally charged atmosphere... It’s a beautiful ode to stillness and silence, all expressed in Romano’s subtle, poetic prose."
"Romano excels in creating an intimate, emotionally charged atmosphere... It’s a beautiful ode to stillness and silence, all expressed in Romano’s subtle, poetic prose."
been reading/annotating the Wake every night (still feel unsafe facing these nightwrunes)
November 22, 2024 at 3:50 PM
been reading/annotating the Wake every night (still feel unsafe facing these nightwrunes)
didn’t really need a second copy of The Crying of lot 49, but then apparently i did (doubtlessly a Trystero conspiracy) 📯
November 20, 2024 at 8:46 PM
didn’t really need a second copy of The Crying of lot 49, but then apparently i did (doubtlessly a Trystero conspiracy) 📯
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The release of the season! @sevenstories.bsky.social @ryanruby.bsky.social
www.sevenstories.com/books/4657-c...
www.sevenstories.com/books/4657-c...
November 20, 2024 at 7:37 PM
The release of the season! @sevenstories.bsky.social @ryanruby.bsky.social
www.sevenstories.com/books/4657-c...
www.sevenstories.com/books/4657-c...
just finished; highly recommended to all those who have never seen the Lord God but have seen Absalom alive in the tree, uninspired Southern Holy Rollers and other fanatics of world-creating monologues 🧏💯
November 20, 2024 at 6:01 PM
just finished; highly recommended to all those who have never seen the Lord God but have seen Absalom alive in the tree, uninspired Southern Holy Rollers and other fanatics of world-creating monologues 🧏💯
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Don DeLillo is 88 today!
November 20, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Don DeLillo is 88 today!