Ah, that's exactly how I did it, a chapter a day (ish). I'm excited for all you've got in store!

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!

(Bart’s own very creepy weird-horror novella The Pale Ones is published by @justindavid.bsky.social and @nathanevansarts.bsky.social Inkandescent Books)

‘The East’ is collected in M John Harrison’s Settling the World, and also in Travel Arrangements, and was originally published in Interzone

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

‘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

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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