all real good writers are huge word perverts
― lag∞n, Saturday, 16 April 2022 14:28 (two years ago) link
recall don delillo saying he liked to compose sentences based on their shape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy7SvZQfeBM
― Ramones Leave the Capitol (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 April 2022 14:39 (two years ago) link
‘Can I ask you something?’ I asked the members of my Updike Support Group one by one. ‘Do you remember Rabbit Redux? Like, at all?’ What I really meant was: ‘Am I insane?’ Had I alone been entrusted with the burden of this book’s contents? Had we forgotten, as a society, that the 1971 sequel to Rabbit, Run contains a scene of Rabbit reading The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass out loud while a black man rapes a hippy girl who, earlier, spent several pages speaking entirely in rhyme? Don’t worry: she likes it, and then dies in a fire at the end.
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 March 2024 03:05 (one month ago) link
I've never read more than fifty consecutive words written by John Updike for some reason. Hmmm. Now that I think about it, the reason I've never read more than fifty consecutive words is that each time I reached that threshold I put the book back on the shelf, knowing this was the wisest choice.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 15 March 2024 03:32 (one month ago) link
Might be worth trying his essays. His writing is about plot about as much as Vermeer's painting is.
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Friday, 15 March 2024 04:07 (one month ago) link
her recent one about meeting the pope was possibly her best ever in my opinion, though the updike is hard to top.
― plax (ico), Friday, 15 March 2024 09:49 (one month ago) link
i like the ashbery comparison upthread though it would not have directly occurred to me it definitely makes a lot of sense in a very internet way
― plax (ico), Friday, 15 March 2024 09:53 (one month ago) link
Just started Priestdaddy yesterday, great stuff
Bonus: cover illustration by Lisa Hanawalt!
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 15 March 2024 10:10 (one month ago) link