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