a thread for b.s. johnson, christine brooke-rose, ann quin, alan burns,

Eimear McBride does take a knife to a lot of this (in a nice enough way). As in Beckett is a lot better than this.

Good discussion of the poetry (unexpected amount of time given to Bob Cobbing), although they could've discussed J H Prynne. I suspect much of the poetry and Ann Quin (on the prose side) is what will endure.

Just finished "See the Old Lady Decently". Didn't like it much tbh.

... also "Thru" by Christine Brooke-Rose is sitting waiting for me but I'm not in the mood.

xp the construction is kinda interesting but yeah remember being completely nonplussed when i finally managed to get hold of a copy

It's the worst thing of his I've read, though "Trawl" is pretty boring.

need to reread trawl; remember it being pretty slow going but certain bits, like the evacuee class war epiphany, always come back to me

i deal with tom stoppard at work occasionally and am always tempted to ask about their beef

Big Bryan had a beef with everyone, more or less.