Joshua Davis
joshlwdavis.bsky.social
Joshua Davis
@joshlwdavis.bsky.social
Fiction writer. Husband to an adored wife, father to paint-spattered children. I will have my Veblens.
Ah, that's exactly how I did it, a chapter a day (ish). I'm excited for all you've got in store!
November 27, 2024 at 4:01 PM
What an excellent list! Some real discoveries there to add to the wish list, O Caledonia and Elizabeth Mavor in particular

Are you doing the Simon Haisell War-and-Peace-in-a-year thing? I’ve been reading (and loving) it since Jan 1st—100 pages from the end!
November 26, 2024 at 1:29 PM
(Bart’s own very creepy weird-horror novella The Pale Ones is published by @justindavid.bsky.social and @nathanevansarts.bsky.social Inkandescent Books)
November 26, 2024 at 10:49 AM
‘The East’ is collected in M John Harrison’s Settling the World, and also in Travel Arrangements, and was originally published in Interzone
November 26, 2024 at 10:48 AM
It’s a brilliant, challenging story, where every line seems to undercut and undermine the reality of what’s come before. We only made it through 3 pages, noting all the ways the text plays with what’s known and what’s multiple, indeterminate, unknowable
November 26, 2024 at 10:48 AM
‘The East’ was a piece chosen by Bart Bennett as part of his own personal canon of literary influences, and not least because M John Harrison apparently once said somewhere that he hoped writers would get together to try and figure out how it works
November 26, 2024 at 10:48 AM
Also loved this interview on Richard Lea’s excellent @fictionable.bsky.social podcast, discussing the process of making fiction from non-fiction and vice-versa

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M John Harrison: 'How do you know who’s alive and who’s the ghost?'
Podcast Episode · Fictionable · 29/09/2023 · 30m
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November 26, 2024 at 10:22 AM
You sometimes also remember liver
November 20, 2024 at 11:36 PM