i'm only 40 pp in
lots of interior monologue, which is intriguing as it's an imminent awards-friendly movie
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 September 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
read The Gallery a couple years ago, excellent
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 September 2017 17:07 (six years ago) link
I'm going to Iceland next month. I've only read a bit of Sjon - what should I read? Fancy a bit of fiction, and something social history/anthropological/travel-related if such a thing exists.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 22 September 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link
Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
What'd you think? I adored it.
― the general theme of STUFF (cryptosicko), F
I'm reading it too; I'm halfway done. The narrator's monomania distracts me.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 September 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
I can say definitively that Armie Hammer is alarmingly well cast as Oliver: the hauteur, looks, frigidity.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 September 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link
The narrator's monomania distracts me.
Do you remember 17-year-olds?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 September 2017 18:33 (six years ago) link
iirc. lord sotosyn teaches students who are slightly older than17, but not by much.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 22 September 2017 18:42 (six years ago) link
Aciman writes 28-year-olds exactly the same way.
― jmm, Friday, 22 September 2017 18:42 (six years ago) link
I don't read my student's monologues, Morbsy.
I'm enjoying it. Apparently the film kept the peach scene.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 September 2017 18:47 (six years ago) link
I really meant do you remember yerself at 17. ;)
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 September 2017 18:55 (six years ago) link
xpost
If that's the case, between this and Toni Erdmann, we have an interesting little cinematic trend going on here.
― the general theme of STUFF (cryptosicko), Friday, 22 September 2017 20:49 (six years ago) link
I've been reading Dennis Lim's elegant and insightful David Lynch: The Man from Another Place, Christina Sharpe's In the Wake, a series of essays on antiblackness that examines the wake, the ship, the hold, and the weather as figures for the Middle Passage and the structures of white supremacy, and Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian's capacious anthology of writing from the New Narrative movement, Writers Who Love Too Much, which works both as an overview of the major US and Canadian experimental prose writers of the 1980s and early '90s and as a welcome redress to the obscurity of many of the less prolific writers from New Narrative circles, something like a Bay Area counterpart to Brandon Stosuy's Down is Down, But So is Up.
― one way street, Friday, 22 September 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
*("an overview of most of the US and Canadian experimental prose writers of the '80s and early '90s whom I actively find interesting, apart from Delany, Wallace, Wojnarowicz, and Anne Carson" might be more accurate, though)
― one way street, Friday, 22 September 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
Chinaski I was very pleased I'd read some sagas when I went, Njal's is a good one, I really like Laxdaela and Gisli's also. "Independent People" by Halldor Laxness is a must IMO.
More Nordic bizniss inc all the Icelandic bits that come to my mind here on the bus here: Scando Lit: search
Including all the above, sorry.
― Tim, Friday, 22 September 2017 23:18 (six years ago) link
Cheers, Tim - that's fantastic.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 23 September 2017 11:52 (six years ago) link
Was thinking I might be approaching my fill of fiction (for a while), when Ashbery died and some surprisingly (given prev. lazy skimming/stoned staring of yore) engaging, refeshing JA poems appeared on Twitter---which of his books should I get? (Maybe not Three Poems for now, that's the one I was staring at back in the 70s.)
― dow, Saturday, 23 September 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link
Start with Houseboat Days.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 23 September 2017 20:09 (six years ago) link
Yeah, Houseboat Days, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, Rivers and Mountains, and The Double Dream of Spring are probably the most compelling books to start with.
― one way street, Saturday, 23 September 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link
Will get, thanks! Now I'm wondering about Frank O'Hara.
― dow, Saturday, 23 September 2017 20:39 (six years ago) link
Start with Lunch Poems!
― one way street, Saturday, 23 September 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
A Wave too. He repeats himself something fierce, though, so his collections tend to bore me after a while -- as I learned this week when I checked Can You Hear, Bird? out of the library. You can start anywhere!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 23 September 2017 21:18 (six years ago) link
Turn a leaf: Fall 2017 Happy Families Are Alike. What Are You Reading Now?
― Merry-Go-Sorry Somehow (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 September 2017 21:51 (six years ago) link