When you've exhausted Rhys's own books, it's quite interesting to read her one (that I know of) translation, Francis Carco's 'Perversity': it's nowhere near as good as her own stuff, but you can see why it appealed to her.
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Rhys's collected letters, edited by Diana Athill, are worth looking at, but maybe not read in full, since they basically boil down to "O poor me, I canot cope, I need money, i can't do anything for myself, o alack alas" and that wears you out after a couple of hundred pages. Athill writes movingly and entertainingly about Rhys in 'Stet'--she was her editor and frequent helper for quite some time.
― like Uber, but for underpants (James Morrison), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 22:09 (eight years ago) link
Well I am looking at reading a vol of Van Gogh's letters later in the year so that might be ok.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 22:47 (eight years ago) link
Ha! Van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo? They're wonderful.
― like Uber, but for underpants (James Morrison), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 22:50 (eight years ago) link
Yeah.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 22:55 (eight years ago) link
Pat Barker - Life ClassGary Donaldson - Truman Defeats DeweyByron - Selected Letters
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 22:58 (eight years ago) link
... but which will take it upon themselves to start the WAYR thread of the new season?
― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 30 March 2016 23:51 (eight years ago) link
Here.
― one way street, Thursday, 31 March 2016 00:02 (eight years ago) link
think there's a katherine mansfield story based on her stay in war-torn paris and her relationship with carco... i need to reread her stories, it's been a long time.
― no lime tangier, Thursday, 31 March 2016 00:43 (eight years ago) link
It's 'An Indiscreet Journey': https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/mansfield/katherine/something/chapter14.html -- Didn't know that it was based on her and Carco!
― a hairy, howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Thursday, 31 March 2016 01:43 (eight years ago) link
Really enjoyed Mieville's new novella while I sat in the rare sun at the pub today. Don't know hat folks opinions are of him, but it was some of his best writing.
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 12:31 (eight years ago) link
Spring and All 2k16 / what are you reading now?
― koogs, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 12:38 (eight years ago) link