yeah, nothing about tao lin or knausgaard sounds appealing or interesting to me at all
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 13 September 2020 03:19 (four years ago) link
xp I read and liked Oryx and Crake earlier this year - it was pleasingly weird and disturbing and I then bought The Year off the Flood but haven’t read it yet.
― scampo italiano (gyac), Sunday, 13 September 2020 10:16 (four years ago) link
I would just humbly submit that people not become confused between Tao Lin and Tan Lin. The latter is one of best writers in the US afaic
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Sunday, 13 September 2020 11:41 (four years ago) link
Fuck
So JK Rowling’s latest Cormoran Strike book (which is 900 pages long! WTF!) is apparently about a trans serial killer. I think we all knew this was coming, though I personally thought that lead times would put this plotline off until book 6.— Abigail Nussbaum (@NussbaumAbigail) September 14, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 14 September 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
ffs
― pomenitul, Monday, 14 September 2020 19:14 (four years ago) link
The thread (just reading it now) is an interesting discussion of Silence of the Lambs!
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 14 September 2020 19:20 (four years ago) link
it's good and i think gets the flaws in SofL right, except maybe for the authority issue? which is maybe somewhat um *complicated* by the fact that harris's deepest well of authority eats ppl he dislikes
*(a book i also have a lot of time for)
― mark s, Monday, 14 September 2020 19:52 (four years ago) link
Even if this was translated I think it will be difficult to find the time with multiple novel cycles :-(
Damion Searls told me about a book he wants to translate: "The Office" by J.J. Voskuil (7 vols, 5500 pages — triple Anniversaries, twice Proust, half-again Knausgaard), about 30 years of a man's life working at a Bureau for Dialectology, Folklore and Onomastics.— Dustin Illingworth (@ddillingworth) September 13, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 09:08 (four years ago) link
I may read Silence of the Lambs, however (only saw the film once but it possibly obscures a ton from that book?)
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 09:10 (four years ago) link
Film is pretty faithful to book iirc but book does a lot of getting inside the killer’s head and the film obviously doesn’t do much of a job of that. Book definitely more sympathetic but then the film was always controversial so not hard.
― scampo italiano (gyac), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 09:24 (four years ago) link
Demme, being an ex-Corman alumni, dials up the 'horror' aspects of SOTL a bit in terms of performance and (especially) the sets - whereas Lecter's cell in the Michael Mann version of Manhunter is all antiseptic white, in SOTL it's a shitty brown dungeon.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 09:40 (four years ago) link
Demme's sensibility is a lot closer to Harris's than Mann's though
― Number None, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 09:54 (four years ago) link
mann's launched will graham into the csi-o-sphere
also lecter is called lecktor for some reason
― mark s, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 09:58 (four years ago) link
ONLY good thing about Manhunter is the good Brian Cox
― how do i shot moon? (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 10:03 (four years ago) link
The bit where In-a-Gadda-da-Vida is playing is so bad my toes have still not uncurled since 198whenever
― how do i shot moon? (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 10:04 (four years ago) link
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v03/n22/martin-amis/football-mad
(it's from 1981, just email boosted in their "diverted traffic" series of unlocked pieces from the past)
― mark s, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 11:33 (four years ago) link
lies
in any movie or tv show featuring william peterson there is also the good thing of keeping an eye out for his incredibly bandy legs
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 13:05 (four years ago) link
both red dragon (the book) and manhunter (the movie) are good
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 14:14 (four 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 14:51 (four years ago) link
LBI delivering as usual
― imago, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 14:53 (four years ago) link
lol <3
― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 15:00 (four years ago) link
Amazed it hasn't been translated tbf. Dibs on an abridged Bildts version!
― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 15:02 (four years ago) link
I'd like to know more! What's the experience of reading it?
― imago, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 15:08 (four years ago) link
― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 bookmarkflaglink
It's longer than Proust, but yeah a volume would be good. Looking at this overview and his debut sounds good.
http://www.letterenfonds.nl/en/author/194/jj-voskuil
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 15:40 (four years ago) link
Amazed it hasn't been translated tbf. Dibs on an abridged Bildts version!― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 bookmarkflaglinkIt's longer than Proust, but yeah a volume would be good. Looking at this overview and his debut sounds good.http://www.letterenfonds.nl/en/author/194/jj-voskuil🕸
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 15:57 (four years ago) link
apologies for that, office life is getting to me it seems.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 16:05 (four years ago) link
🚨Giveaway alert🚨 We have two proofs of Jon Fosse's I IS ANOTHER (tr. Damion Searls) to give away. Reply to this tweet with your favourite notable doppelgangers or twins and be entered to win a proof. Giveaway ends tonight at 6 PM BST. pic.twitter.com/kGvtndJRDa— Fitzcarraldo Editions (@FitzcarraldoEds) September 15, 2020
This series of books by Jon Fosse. Nothing I've read about it strikes me as something I'd like. Sounds like a post-Knausgaard cash-in tbh.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 18 September 2020 09:51 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
wanker
― how do i shot moon? (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 20 September 2020 15:36 (four years ago) link
andrea long chu
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 27 September 2020 21:42 (four 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
https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/timthumb--2--1.jpg
― 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
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 (eleven months ago) link