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
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 20 September 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link
wanker
― how do i shot moon? (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 20 September 2020 15:36 (three years ago) link
andrea long chu
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 27 September 2020 21:42 (three years ago) link
Lockwood as novelist is probably going to be ok, but not as good as her tweets, which is where the magic happens
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 February 2021 23:16 (three years ago) link
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.
― abcfsk, Monday, 15 February 2021 07:59 (three years ago) link
Not influenced so much as a cash-in. Let's get someone who is male, middle-aged, Norwegian..
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 15 February 2021 08:20 (three years ago) link
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.
― abcfsk, Monday, 15 February 2021 11:49 (three years ago) link
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.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 15 February 2021 13:07 (three years ago) link
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 14:09 (three years ago) link
All the authors whose work has been lost due to war, disasters or just the inevitable march of time. Never reading any of them.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 15 February 2021 14:22 (three years ago) link
They sound like a buzzkill anyway.
― jmm, Monday, 15 February 2021 14:33 (three years ago) link
What's the best "Internet novel"?— Malcolm Harris (@BigMeanInternet) February 15, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 09:20 (three years ago) link
― abcfsk, Monday, 15 February 2021 bookmarkflaglink
Cool I'll have a go and see how I get on.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 09:21 (three years ago) link
Writers I primarily encounter being tits on social media: Roxane Gay, Matt Haig, etc
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 10:07 (three years ago) link
now imagine nabokov on twitter
― mark s, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 10:45 (three years ago) link
be fun spotting his alts
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― mark s, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 10:46 (three years ago) link
Best internet novel is Jarett Kobek's 'I Hate the Internet.'
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 14:46 (three years ago) link
Piers AnthonyTerry Goodkind
― wasdnuos (abanana), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 16:17 (three years ago) link
it’s fun to imagine nabokov composing his tweets on index cards and then passing them off to someone else to post
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
Lol, sinkah
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
xp Véra no doubt
― John Wesley Glasscock (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 17:32 (three years ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 5 October 2023 23:09 (five months ago) link
Looking at his Wikipedia page I see he published a 'scientific work' entitled 'Hanging the Afterbirth of the Horse'. I'm in!
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 5 October 2023 23:34 (five months ago) link
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.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 5 October 2023 23:45 (five months ago) link
William Vollmann’s historical novels are very good.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 6 October 2023 00:07 (five months ago) link
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”.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 6 October 2023 00:09 (five months ago) link
Vollmann also has a disturbing origin story that probably explains his unique drive
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 6 October 2023 00:09 (five months ago) link
I'll take y'all's word for it, I don't have that many years left on Earth.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 6 October 2023 00:12 (five months ago) link
He doesn’t either!
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 6 October 2023 00:32 (five months ago) link
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.
― brimstead, Friday, 6 October 2023 01:27 (five months ago) link