Gilbert Sorrentino, of course.
― Bredda Dadaismus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 June 2015 13:03 (ten years ago)
David Markson
― Bredda Dadaismus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 June 2015 13:04 (ten years ago)
Evan S. Connell, Jr.
Thomas Berger
James Salter
Patrick Hamilton
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Sunday, 21 June 2015 08:52 (ten years ago)
John Hawkes
― The Clones of Baron Funkhausen by Proxy Syndrome (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 02:54 (ten years ago)
'minimum distinction'?
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 04:12 (ten years ago)
mere inflated spoofs
― smoke weed listen to Satie (wins), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 18:12 (ten years ago)
panoptic pseudo-cogencies
― Archaic Buster Poindexter, Live At The Apollo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 25 July 2015 21:01 (nine years ago)
I quite like the one John Hawkes book I've read. Tempted to say Bernard Malamud
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Sunday, 26 July 2015 10:03 (nine years ago)
Bernard Malamud
Don DeLillo, personally
Oh wait, he isn't dead, sorry
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Sunday, 26 July 2015 10:50 (nine years ago)
( also doesn't fit because he gets a lot more attention than the above, but mainly because he is a Big Ideas/Systems/Do U See? writer)
― Archaic Buster Poindexter, Live At The Apollo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 July 2015 11:03 (nine years ago)
Stanley elkin
― D-4(y)0 (wins), Sunday, 26 July 2015 11:36 (nine years ago)
Cynthia Ozick
― D-4(y)0 (wins), Sunday, 26 July 2015 11:37 (nine years ago)
i only for the first time just now got around to googling the thread title
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Sunday, 26 July 2015 11:54 (nine years ago)
others may confirm/deny but: i feel like literally no one in europe has ever read a novel by wallace stegner?
Strike out "in Europe" maybe
― Archaic Buster Poindexter, Live At The Apollo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 July 2015 12:33 (nine years ago)
Harold Brodkey? Is Wallace Stegner actually any good, btw? I keep getting his name in my head because I'm reading Wallace Stevens but don't really remember who Stegner is or what he did.
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Sunday, 26 July 2015 16:39 (nine years ago)
I've read a Stegner novel.
― Aimless, Sunday, 26 July 2015 17:17 (nine years ago)
Wallace Stegner prob has a Wikipedia page with a better sketch of him, but briefly, he is usually identified as one of a coterie of writers whose work is associated with the western USA and its local problems, culture, characters and point of view. iirc, he taught writing at some Montana university.
I liked his non-fic book The Hundredth Meridian, about Powell's explorations of the Colorado River.
― Aimless, Sunday, 26 July 2015 18:04 (nine years ago)
Correction: Beyond the Hundredth Meridian.
― Aimless, Sunday, 26 July 2015 18:21 (nine years ago)
Looking at his Wikipedia page, he taught creative writing at Stanford U, not in Montana. Now I'm curious which Montana prof I mixed him up with.
― Aimless, Sunday, 26 July 2015 18:29 (nine years ago)
I've decided I was thinking of William Kittredge, a much less talented writer than Stegner, but who grew up in Oregon and taught at U of Montana.
― Aimless, Sunday, 26 July 2015 18:48 (nine years ago)
― Archaic Buster Poindexter, Live At The Apollo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 July 2015 21:13 (nine years ago)
he really didn't!
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Monday, 27 July 2015 00:15 (nine years ago)
A decent courtesy is more than sufficient.
― Sigue Sigue Kaputnik (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 19 September 2016 02:15 (eight years ago)
Nicholson Baker to thread
― Tell me who sends these infamous .gifs (bernard snowy), Monday, 19 September 2016 23:47 (eight years ago)
I liked Salter's The Hunters and Light Years in different ways, the latter going toward his lush (prob in more ways than one) later style, but the former reeling in the impressions because fighter pilot on morning runs---not quite like anything else I've read. Think he was fairly famous, for a coterie/writer's writer (sometimes showing you what not to do, inadvertently)
― dow, Monday, 18 October 2021 01:48 (three years ago)
Also read a Sorrentino story, in Esquire, I think, about a writer who twisted his life around one manuscript of a novel---eventually, he badgered someone into reading it who told him it became two stories, tangled; he needed to pull them apart, and then...he rejected this worked and partied and sneered on, on, on---pretty good!
― dow, Monday, 18 October 2021 01:53 (three years ago)
Richard Elman (I found his memoir Namedropping wonderful.)
― alimosina, Friday, 29 October 2021 03:47 (three years ago)