Authors you will never read

ONLY good thing about Manhunter is the good Brian Cox

lies

in any movie or tv show featuring william peterson there is also the good thing of keeping an eye out for his incredibly bandy legs

both red dragon (the book) and manhunter (the movie) are good

Voskuil's magnum opus deserves to be translated into English. It's a lot but a lot of it is great.

LBI delivering as usual

lol <3

Amazed it hasn't been translated tbf. Dibs on an abridged Bildts version!

I'd like to know more! What's the experience of reading it?

Amazed it hasn't been translated tbf. Dibs on an abridged Bildts version!

― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 bookmarkflaglink

It's longer than Proust, but yeah a volume would be good. Looking at this overview and his debut sounds good.

http://www.letterenfonds.nl/en/author/194/jj-voskuil

Amazed it hasn't been translated tbf. Dibs on an abridged Bildts version!

― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 bookmarkflaglink

It's longer than Proust, but yeah a volume would be good. Looking at this overview and his debut sounds good.

http://www.letterenfonds.nl/en/author/194/jj-voskuil🕸

apologies for that, office life is getting to me it seems.

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— Fitzcarraldo Editions (@FitzcarraldoEds) September 15, 2020

This series of books by Jon Fosse. Nothing I've read about it strikes me as something I'd like. Sounds like a post-Knausgaard cash-in tbh.

Someone told me everything I have said about mental health is meaningless because it doesn’t continually address the class struggle. And I am thinking back to when I nearly fell to my death and genuinely believe a treatise on structural inequality would have been a bit too heavy.

— Matt Haig (@matthaig1) September 20, 2020

wanker

andrea long chu

Lockwood as novelist is probably going to be ok, but not as good as her tweets, which is where the magic happens

xxxp that's a crazy assumption, that Jon Fosse would ever be influenced by Knausgaard. if there's one author who fully has his own thing it's Fosse, and this new septology is very much still that 'own thing' he's been doing for decades.

Not influenced so much as a cash-in. Let's get someone who is male, middle-aged, Norwegian..

His translated novels have been well received for a while. He's also one of the most performed dramatists in the world for the last couple of decades. So I don't know that a modest push behind his new, major work (which is winning prices and rapturous praise back in Scandinavia) can be construed as a cynical cash-in. But sure, I guess all promotional efforts will look for synergy with another trend in some way.

I think my problem here is an association with an author I don't like much, but also it encourages bad reviewing to say this is like Knausgaard when I'm sure there are worthwhile differences that are never explored.

All I'll say is a dislike for Knausgaard is no indication of whether or not you like Fosse, their writing styles couldn't be more different

All the authors whose work has been lost due to war, disasters or just the inevitable march of time. Never reading any of them.

They sound like a buzzkill anyway.

What's the best "Internet novel"?

— Malcolm Harris (@BigMeanInternet) February 15, 2021

All I'll say is a dislike for Knausgaard is no indication of whether or not you like Fosse, their writing styles couldn't be more different

― abcfsk, Monday, 15 February 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Cool I'll have a go and see how I get on.

Writers I primarily encounter being tits on social media: Roxane Gay, Matt Haig, etc

now imagine nabokov on twitter

be fun spotting his alts

https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/timthumb--2--1.jpg

Best internet novel is Jarett Kobek's 'I Hate the Internet.'

Piers Anthony
Terry Goodkind

it’s fun to imagine nabokov composing his tweets on index cards and then passing them off to someone else to post

Lol, sinkah

xp Véra no doubt

Voskuil's magnum opus deserves to be translated into English. It's a lot but a lot of it is great.

― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 bookmarkflaglink

8000 words on Voskuil. Sounds really great.

Here's the teeniest taste of my JJ Voskuil piece in @readliberties: https://t.co/kKk2fr1vJw

— Adrian Nathan West (@a_nathanwest) October 5, 2023

Looking at his Wikipedia page I see he published a 'scientific work' entitled 'Hanging the Afterbirth of the Horse'. I'm in!

I have a bias against Franzen because of the kerfuffle over his comments on Edith Wharton. He's probably a gifted writer, but so are a lot of others.

My brother is a huge fan of William T. Vollman, I have a hard time believing anyone who writes that much can write all that well.

I'll add Scott Adams to the list, even though that's fish in a barrel.

William Vollmann’s historical novels are very good.

I love Bill Vollman but that is because I respect a person who gets interested enough in a subject to become an expert in it through sheer force of intellect, chance, and economic privilege. Imperial, Train Dreams, the newer ones about peak oil— I mean the guy isn’t necessarily the best stylist, but he makes up for it in terms of research and “experience”.

Vollmann also has a disturbing origin story that probably explains his unique drive

I'll take y'all's word for it, I don't have that many years left on Earth.

He doesn’t either!

haven’t read any of his fiction yet but enjoyed both volumes of carbon ideologies. currently wrapping up part 1 of the abridged rising up and rising down, which is pretty good. as table says, his obsessive attention to detail is immersive, love all the historical threads he brings up and the sort of “dialogues” he constructs between the ideas of eg Trotsky and Lincoln or whatever. I enjoy his deadpan understated sense of humor as well.