Eleventh Volume
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Joan Didion on her differing affection for the styles of Hemingway and James.
Elizabeth Taylor’s short story “Poor Girl”, in her collection The Blush, is one of the best I’ve read in a long time.
Reading Vollmann is a great way to remind yourself that your own quiet, personal despair is actually very boring and un-researched compared to the despair of others.
I may have gone slightly overboard at the book fair today.
It’s pretty hard to disagree with this list.
Best living writers of fiction in English
I didn’t think I’d ever own this book, but here it is.
Excited to check this encyclopaedic novel out. This is Volume 3 (published first) of a projected five volume book.
I’d be interested to know if any of my trusted followers can recommend this trilogy?
Do I need this? No. Do I want this? Yes. Did I get this? I’m afraid so.
This is one of the best books I’ve read.
Cover is out for Mircea Cartarescu’s Blinding Vol 1 - and what a beauty!! Out in November 2025
36 hour Ulysses live reading going well. 11am Guinness. Now 9:28pm. We will continue all night
What is your impression when an author repeatedly uses the same construction in a novel? I lose trust in the author. I’m currently reading a novel that uses “as if”; as many as 4 times on a page.
