― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link
The armchair or the book?
http://www.trendir.com/archives/parri-free-armchair.jpg
― Interpreter of dreams predictor of weather (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Interpreter of dreams predictor of weather (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link
The Conversions is more what they call a romp. Over and over things are elaborately converted from one form or medium to another. E.g., Grent Wayl's will asks for a batch of small pancakes in the shape of the notes of the score of the music played at his funeral to be cooked and eaten by the mourners.
"Singular Pleasures" happens to be anthologized in The Way Home.
― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link
Harry Mathews: Name Your Reasons Why He Is So Bad & Hated
― Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Hamletmachine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 October 2009 00:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I need my own copy of Singular Pleasures!
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 3 October 2009 11:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I need to reread Tlooth
― Matt, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link
never read his short stories so I picked some up from the library and holy shit Country Cooking from Central France is incredible
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 15 May 2011 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
this dude is such a great writer, he seems like such a wonderful loveable piece of shit
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 15 May 2011 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
I read the story with like one of those high energy bright eyed but braindead hangovers I sometimes get in a coffee shop this morning and the story just made me like make noises and faces all over the place I hope I didn't look crazy
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 15 May 2011 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
haha I can totally picture that. and have done the same thing myself many times (most often with Barthelme stories; most recently with Flaubert's "A Good Heart" or whatever it's called).
― bernard snowy, Monday, 16 May 2011 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
found 'singular pleasures' in a back number of some journal and read it. is the book version longer? or is it just gratuitously formatted?
― thomp, Tuesday, 17 May 2011 08:14 (twelve years ago) link
:-(
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/01/25/harry-mathews-1930-2017/
The interview linked within is great and he managed to complete one more novel!
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 26 January 2017 21:10 (seven years ago) link
Cigarettes-ing now, and loving it
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Friday, 27 January 2017 00:51 (seven years ago) link
I'm reading _The Conversions_ ... 50 pages in and thoroughly confused and delighted and maybe slightly annoyed. Was tempted to spend some time trying to decipher some of the odder passages, to see if I could figure out what he's doing, but I decided to just push on and see to what extend he reveals it more explicitly later. If not, well, I can always go back!
― Rimsky-Koskenkorva (Øystein), Friday, 27 January 2017 01:16 (seven years ago) link
― In Walked Bodhisattva (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 January 2017 02:17 (seven years ago) link
I've only read Cigarettes and CIA, keen now to check out some of his shorter writing.
― Headphone Jack (seandalai), Friday, 27 January 2017 13:53 (seven years ago) link
i read Tlooth and then Sinking of the Odradek Stadium about 25 years ago, they both had a really big impact but I haven't read anything Oulipian in almost that long. I should revisit Tlooth especially.
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Friday, 27 January 2017 15:07 (seven years ago) link