Tell Me About Harry Mathews

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

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).

found 'singular pleasures' in a back number of some journal and read it. is the book version longer? or is it just gratuitously formatted?

:-(

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!

Cigarettes-ing now, and loving it

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!

Cigarettes-ing now, and loving it

I've only read Cigarettes and CIA, keen now to check out some of his shorter writing.

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.