Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Shackleton
Capleton

Leee, you appear to be omitting William Gaddis. William Gass / William Gaddis conflation was already an in-joke in 1992 (when Gass playfully poked fun at the conflation).

I can see why; they were operating in similar literary spaces.

Not true of Stegner (a Western voice) or Styron (a Southern voice, almost as Southern as Faulkner).

To be honest I spent so much time with these guys... I kinda wish I had been doing something else. Like, almost anything else.

Pointless anecdote: On my last day of college I happened to get into an an elevator with my favorite professor. I told him about what I was interested in doing for graduate school. He said, "That's a very crowded field. You should be doing Anglo-Saxon."

As a westerner, I find Stegner to be one of the west's most authentic voices.

Jimbeaux, do you have Cormac McCarthy ist opinions?

I loved Suttree (which is of course much more Southern than Western), liked All the Pretty Horses, and couldn't make it through The Crossing. That is the extent of my encounters with McCarthy. My brother (who gave me the Border Trilogy) adores him.

Suttree stays in my mind almost constantly, but yeah you are right. It's a Southern novel.

Personally I was born in Missouri and live in Virginia so can really only understand Midwestern, Southern, and Eastern vibes. The American West is a mystery to me so Stegner is not really on my radar screen.

When I read Angle of Repose, I immediately recognized the narrator as my people.

I left out Gaddis because he's the only one I've read!

Honestly, up until this season at least, I got Corey Seagar and Trea Turner mixed up all the time. And Seager is indeed Turner's #1 on Baseball Reference's Similarity Score (913.4), although it doesn't quite work in reverse.

Jim Breuer
Jim Caviezel

Castile and Catalan.

William Styron

― Hoisted by your own Picard (Leee)

william styron
william saroyan

basically all those cis white male writers kind of blend together

also:

bph
bpd

very different things. i just hate TLAs on general principle.

There are a lot of famous directors named Todd. I don't know any Todds irl, not one.

Henry Mancini
Lalo Schifrin

There are a lot of famous directors named Todd. I don't know any Todds irl, not one.

― (the poster formerly known as Twitter) (flamboyant goon tie included)

a todd embezzled money from me once

he was a libertarian

The invisible hand

Big Head Todd and the Invisible Hand

Simon Pegg
John Simm

Maybe throw in a younger Michael Sheen.

Deleuze and Guattari
Critter and Guitari

Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen

You forgot to add
Two Wheels Good

Tame Impala
Gazelle Twin

Otto Preminger
John Schlesinger
John Frankenheimer

. . . and Sam Peckinpah

I don't confuse him, he sounds like a Loony-Tunes character

Sam Peckinpah
Sam Fuller

Emily Watson
Emily Mortimer
Samantha Morton

W. Somerset Maugham
Evelyn Waugh

Emily Watson
Emily Mortimer
Samantha Morton

Yes, with added Emily Blunt

if you're bringing up Emily Watson, you might as well throw Emma Watson in there, too.

ronnie wood
roy wood

didn't realize they were separate people until today tbh

wizzard > stones

When I first moved to London 30 yrs ago I sat next to Ronnie Wood drinking in a pub in Hammersmith. So many people that I told about it said "How did you recognise him without his make up?"

Thomas Pynchon / Kurt Vonnegut

Paramore/Pomplamoose

Just learned that Maxo Kream and Maxo aren't the same person.

Kate Berlant/Kathryn Hahn

My Thomas Pynchon one is with Don DeLillo. I just looked up which one is older and they are the same age so that is not helpful

Heard two of my students talking past each other for a good three minutes today because one of them was trying to make a joke about fentanyl and the other one kept hearing it as "fennel." I was helping another student at the time or I would have shut down the fentanyl joke right away, but then I got sort of fascinated seeing how long it would take them to figure it out.

Throw some fernet in there any you've got quite the cocktail.

Roy Head
Roy Money

... always and forever.

... that's Roy Loney of course.

OTL

Josefa, the William Gass / William Gaddis / William T. Vollmer nexus is also an area of treachery.

Don't get me started on John Barth / Donald Barthelme / Richard Barthelmess.

John Gardner, John Berger, and Thomas Berger is a perennial for me

German Romanticism edition:

Novalis
Jean-Paul

Novalis/ Novels

That's actually not just a cheap joke: when I was younger I thought the Novalis was a genre pioneered by the Germans like The Bildungsroman, like a novella or something

The Monochrome Set
The American Analog Set

Hannah Diamond
Hannah Peel

Hannah Banana