false<![CDATA[EVER]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1230671026m/6054313.jpg60543131Within the psychic architecture that is EVER, Blake Butler explores the way bodies swell and contract, going from skin to house and back again. And the way houses too shrink to fit us first like clothing and then like skin and then tighter still. The result is a strange, visionary ontological dismemberment that takes you well beyond what you'd ever expect. - Brian Evenson62301241412009EVERtotal:79|5:56|4:18|3:5|2:0|1:0|793671622445falsefalseWed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009Wed Feb 25 05:45:03 -0800 2009Wed Feb 25 05:45:46 -0800 2009
DEAR RA, blake butler’s eerie EVER’s a howl — a generational cri de coeur, but instead of the anthemic us-ness there’s left now only solitary i’s peeping sometimes wildly sometimes mutely about. and replacing the ruined reputed best minds of the last boom are s...more...]]>
06falsefalseTue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009Tue Dec 30 18:12:52 -0800 2008Thu Mar 26 15:36:32 -0700 2009 It's the rhythm of the writing that's the character. Are there characters in this book by Blake Butler? I think the writing is the character which is writing.
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52falsetrueThu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009Thu Jan 08 01:43:40 -0800 2009Thu Jan 29 16:36:22 -0800 2009 Like an unfolding narrative mystery that sees you chasing behind a slipp...more...]]>
41falsefalseFri Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009Mon Mar 02 00:19:47 -0800 2009Mon Sep 14 20:45:19 -0700 2009 This book is hard to explain. As the brackets so prevalent in the text suggest, there many levels upon which to interpret it. Is the house literal, the character agoraphobic, and the lack of a world outside of it suggests something post-ap...more...]]>
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It took me four sittings on a NY subway daily work commute to start and finish Blake Butler's "Ever." Twice was in the AM before coffee. The other twice was at night.
It engaged me as it would others whose fantasies are filled with melting solar floaty cars, evil cyborg lo...more...]]>
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50falsefalseSat Jan 03 04:08:35 -0800 2009Sat Jan 03 04:12:29 -0800 2009 interview with the author, re "Ever,"
at http://rauanklassnik.blogspot.com/2008/1...
(to see the rest of the interview look in archives-- or, more easily, click on one of the labels, like Blake Butler, at the bottom of the post)]]>
51falsefalseSun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009Thu Jan 01 12:04:44 -0800 2009Sun Jan 18 21:34:32 -0800 2009 EVER is a terror dome that can't be esca...more...]]>
51falsefalseThu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009Mon Mar 16 09:58:55 -0700 2009Mon Mar 16 09:59:43 -0700 2009 http://seanlovelace.com/2009/02/02/i-rev...
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