Books Acquired (1.8.2015)
I am taking a class titled 21st-Century Fiction: What Is The Contemporary? and three of the books in this photograph are part of the reading list. Absent titles are by Dan Chaon, Kathryn Davis, Ben...
View ArticleEvan Dara (Books acquired 1.28/29/2015)
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View ArticleSome notes on beginning Evan Dara’s novel Flee
A. What a cover on Evan Dara’s 2013 novel Flee, don’t you agree? B. From the back cover: C. That’s all there is. Well, okay, there’s an ISBN too. But no blurbs, no other text. D. “Something always...
View ArticleA Conversation about Evan Dara’s Novel Flee (Part 1)
[Context/editorial note: I’ve been meaning to read Evan Dara’s latest novel Flee for a while now, and when Biblioklept contributor Ryan Chang told me he’d be reading it as part of a contemporary...
View ArticleA Conversation about Evan Dara’s Novel Flee (Part 2)
[Context/editorial note: I’d been meaning to read Evan Dara’s latest novel Flee for a while, and when Biblioklept contributor Ryan Chang told me he’d be reading it as part of a contemporary literature...
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The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald; edited by Edmund Wilson. A 1956 New Directions mass market paperback. No designer credited. The Crack-Up collects autobiographical pieces by Fitzgerald, along with...
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Last week on Three Books, I featured three books I kinda sorta maybe plan to read in 2016. Here are three more: Slow Learner by Thomas Pynchon. First edition hardback by Little, Brown (1984). Jacket...
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J R by William Gaddis. 1993 trade paperback edition by Penguin. Cover art is a detail of an Associated Gas and Electric Company stock certificate “Courtesy of William Gaddis.” No designer credited....
View Article“eavesdropping on my own thoughts”| Passage from + One-Sentence Riff on Evan...
. . . In fact, this happens often—when I feel as if words, others’ words, have crowded mine out, and have left me no place; I do not know why, through what mechanism, this occurs, but when it does, and...
View ArticleBooks I’ve been reading these past few weeks
I am reading too many books. I am hoping to write about a few of these before the month is over, starting with Chrostowska’s Permission (my review is long overdue). I’m about fifty pages shy of...
View ArticleSeven (Long) Books I’ll Read Again
Life is too short not to reread. Chosen somewhat randomly but also sincerely, seven books I’d love to read again sometime soon: Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon I read Mason & Dixon a few years...
View ArticleSome sentences on some books I’ve read or have been reading
I finished Gerald Murnane’s 1982 novel The Plains last week. The Plains is quite short—it’s a novella really—and is divided into three parts. I read Part I in two sittings, gulping down the...
View ArticleBlog about Evan Dara’s two-act play Provisional Biography of Mose Eakins
Evan Dara’s latest work is a two-act play called Provisional Biography of Mose Eakins. Set “c. 2015” on a stage “As bare as you can stand it,” Dara’s play follows Mose Eakins, “35-ish and spry,” as he...
View ArticleDaniel Green on the radically disruptive books of Evan Dara
Literary critic Daniel Green has written a longish essay on the writings of Evan Dara. Titled, “Giving Voice: On the Work of Evan Dara,” the essay situates Dara’s work within the context of its...
View ArticleEvan Dara’s Permanent Earthquake (Book acquired, 7 June 2021)
So I got Evan Dara’s fourth novel, Permanent Earthquake. There’s no summary blurb for it, but it seems to concern, like, an earthquake that is ongoing, or, if you will, permanent. The first 25 pages...
View ArticleBlog about some recent reading (Süskind/Shange/Dara/Walton/Cain)
Last time I did one of these silly blogs about recent reading— –(a poor substitute for meaningful reviews, blogs about recent reading—but so and in some measure of fairness to myself, the last few...
View ArticleBlog about some recent reading (Bolaño/Cain/Calvino/Dara/Johnson)
My James M. Cain discovery tour continued with Double Indemnity, which I loved loved loved. The novel’s terse, mean, a bit queasy, and zippy as hell. Over the July 4th weekend my uncle and I made...
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