Aleksander Hemon

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So is he great or just good at picking up influences? (flipping through Bruno looks like an anthology of our times: DFW's footnotes, Sebald's photographs, Hofman or Markson's short bits)...

― kenchen, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

i read 'nowhere man' a couple of years ago (and then a girl i was seeing borrowed it and never returned it). it's good! it flamed out a little in the last third, but there are absolutely gorgeous passages in that novel. he's best at describing fleeting moments.

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

Am I wrong in thinking that the Dick Macalister character in this week's New Yorker short story ("The Noble Truths of Suffering") is modeled on Tim O'Brien? Both are award-winning fiction writers whose main subject is the Vietnam War; the title "Nothing We Say" has the same vague colloquial resonance as "The Things They Carried"; O'Brien even attended Macalaster College. I have no idea whether O'Brien is a vegetarian with Buddhist leanings.

― jaymc, Friday, 19 September 2008 15:14 (seventeen years ago)

yeah i sort of assumed it was

― THE GAMBLER (max), Friday, 19 September 2008 15:42 (seventeen years ago)

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