a.m.homes = my favourite short story writer

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her novels i think a lot less effective (i didn't finish the alice/child-murderer one yet, though i've had it on long borrow from my sister for hmmm let's not go there)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 July 2003 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

(bah [xXx] still has my copy of THE SAFETY OF OBJECTS)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 July 2003 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't know Vin Diesel could read.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 7 July 2003 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

She's so much younger than I thought! Mark, is her run of magazine and journal stories a large one? I thought the bulk of her contributing work was non-fiction.

I've not read The Safety of Objects, but I'll put it on-list.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 7 July 2003 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

two books-worth of short stories, acc.THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW (the second, just out), three novels and one "elaboration " of a novel

i don't think i've read any of her non-fiction except a paragraph on (i think) pauline kael when she died

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 July 2003 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I really liked the Safety of Objects, I've kept hearing her novels were terrible and I never bothered to read one though. Did anyone see the film that was made out of Safety of Objects? Looked like a Short Cuts rip but I thought it might be a good one, although the reviews were pretty poor and it disappeared from theaters after about two weeks.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

My favourite short story writer of late is Arthur Bradford.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i think she's rubbish. i saw her give a reading from things you should know (from the reagan story to be precise) in boston last year and it was embarassingly bad.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

jack is ok, a bit soft centred; in a country of mothers is irritating; the alice one i never finished; music for torching is the further adventures of the crack parents in safety of objects and is good, i think

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

They made a movie out of The Safety of Objects that I have yet to see but I cannot imagine that it is any good.

SoE is fabulous but I am very iffy on her novels--Music for Torching got old fairly quickly.

― adam (adam), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

the story is terrific though!! (haha esp.as it's as much abt ilxor as reagan)

maybe she's just a bad reader

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I read one of her short stories, which I thought was terrific, which made me try a novel - Music For Torching - which I thought was good, but not up to that mark. I will certainly read more, though.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 7 July 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought her two efforts in THE PENGUIN BOOK OF GAY SHORT STORIES were thoroughly excellent. If I remember correctly, one of them involves spunking up inside a Barbie doll. I have always been scared of reading a whole book of hers in case it didn't live up to my initiation.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

the barbie doll story is in THE SAFETY OF OBJECTS (and is by no means the best story in it) (which is possibly "chunky in heat")

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Alice Munro has ruled my year. she is so good it is frightening. my brother was hanging out with mary gaitskill last week. she likes to write slowly. so slowly that a.m. homes is now her.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 9 July 2003 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

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