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Jacob’s 2022 Year in Books
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Jacob Wren
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I could call up Arianna and confirm the best story I know about these dinner parties. But I don’t want it not to be true. I tell my children this story as an example of savvy and pluck. (I have heard it from three different people.)
Arianna set about having dinner parties, inviting the most prestigious New Yorkers who would come and, at an appointed hour, she would deliver an impromptu toast, fift Read more of this blog post »
I could call up Arianna and confirm the best story I know about these dinner parties. But I don’t want it not to be true. I tell my children this story as an example of savvy and pluck. (I have heard it from three different people.)
Arianna set about having dinner parties, inviting the most prestigious New Yorkers who would come and, at an appointed hour, she would deliver an impromptu toast, fift Read more of this blog post »
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Polyamorous Love Song
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2014
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Rich and Poor
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2016
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Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed
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2010
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Families are Formed Through Copulation
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2007
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Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART
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2018
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If our wealth is criminal then let's live with the criminal joy of pirates
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2015
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Unrehearsed Beauty
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1998
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Transversals
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2011
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Les familles combattent le fascisme!
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Three short passages from Macunaíma: * One time a tick set up shop on the side of the road and did lotsa business cause he didn’t mind selling on credit. He sold so much on credit so much on credit, and so many Brazilians never paid that finally the ti ...more |
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“If we make a union in these fields, is there anything we can do to ensure it doesn't become corrupt? Or that later it doesn't only look after the people who work here, we just look after our own, and everyone else can fend for themselves? We need to fight for ourselves, here and now, but we also need changes so large and impossible they encompass the entire world.”
― Rich and Poor
― Rich and Poor
“Often the idea of survival is mentioned in relation to capitalism, as in the phrase ‘economic survival’ or the thought ‘I need to earn money to survive.’ However, in our endeavour we hoped to sever survival from economy, striving for a purer form of modernized surviving. Our fight would be a fight for survival and the fighting itself would be our life, not in the sense of employment but in the sense of a full reality with all of the inherent risk, complexity and completion that living implies.”
― Polyamorous Love Song
― Polyamorous Love Song
“And my theory about professional artists was as follows: artists are not necessarily the most creative or inspired individuals in any given community. Instead they are those individuals most willing to exploit their own creativity and inspiration, most willing to gain personal profit from their unconscious and its emanations, those with the most missionary zeal for the dissemination of their own idiosyncratic perspectives. Questions of pure creativity clearly lay elsewhere.”
― Polyamorous Love Song
― Polyamorous Love Song
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“My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.”
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“I want to say something about bad writing. I'm proud of my bad writing. Everyone is so intelligent lately, and stylish. Fucking great. I am proud of Philip Guston's bad painting, I am proud of Baudelaire's mamma's boy goo goo misery. Sometimes the lurid or shitty means having a heart, which's something you have to try to have. Excellence nowadays is too general and available to be worth prizing: I am interested in people who have to find strange and horrible ways to just get from point a to point b.”
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“People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to the other, more instantly negotiable virtues.... character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“The right to pursue happiness sends me and other Americans, even here where we are meant to resist outside temptation, on a hunt for it. If I’m not hungry, I might seek other forms of happiness, or pleasure, which is part of my American birthright, though the most misconceived notion of them or the most difficult to realize; I can pursue several means and ways to be happy, if I am able to forget what makes me habitually sad.”
― American Genius: A Comedy
― American Genius: A Comedy
Q&A with Jacob Wren
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Feel free to ask Jacob any questions you might have and he will answer them at his leisure.
Revistas & Antologias
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— last activity Dec 15, 2014 02:40AM
Este grupo destina-se a falar sobre as muitas revistas sobre literatura que andam por ai, antologias que vão sendo editadas e e-zines/fanzines que pos ...more
The Melville House Group
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— last activity Feb 22, 2022 05:26PM
We rather like our books. Just a bit, maybe. A little. Naturally, we want to talk about them with fellow readers. Join us in discussing our books or ...more
A Short Course on Resistance
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— last activity May 08, 2012 11:06AM
“We refuse the general alternative proposed by infinite representation: the indeterminate, the indifferent, the undifferenciated or the difference alr ...more
Red Lemonade
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— last activity Sep 18, 2013 05:44PM
Red Lemonade titles and other Alternative Literature books.
Authors Lounge
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A place for authors to exchange ideas and share information on Goodreads. Or otherwise, unwind, relax and meet other authors. This is our place where ...more
Black Oceanographers
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— last activity Dec 14, 2010 12:38PM
This group is designed to discuss books published by Black Ocean, receive updates on publications and get news on author events. All are welcome, only ...more
Historical Tour de Genre
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— last activity Aug 25, 2016 06:16AM
Historical Fiction Reading Challenge Sometimes the title 'historical' sounds stuffy, or boring and stiff, but it doesn't have to be. Actually, the gen ...more
Hyperstition
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— last activity Dec 15, 2009 01:52PM
Useful distinctions from the Hyperstition Blog: One difference is that superstitions don't necesarily involve a becoming-real. It's true that superst ...more
Neglected Writers Forum
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— last activity Dec 21, 2014 06:02PM
A forum for sharing information about great but obscure fiction by writers who are too little known and/or whose books are mostly out of print.
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Pamela
Jan 22, 2011 12:48PM
Hey Jacob...Thanks for accepting my friend request.
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Thanks for the friend request. It's great meeting fellow Montreal writers.
HI, Jacob :)Thanks for inviting me.. Nice to know you
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Thanks Jacob for inviting me :)Happy reading ;)
Jacob, thank you for befriending me. I like performance art. I'm interested in seeing what your work is like. You're definitely creative with your book titles! LOL
Hi Jacob,Thanks for befriending this fellow Goodreads author!
Thanks for adding me, Jacob. I see you're in Montreal, a city I visit frequently (and love) because my son lives there.
Thanks for the add. Jacob. I find your profile fascinating. I'll have to search out some of your books. I love works skewed towards performance art. Cheers.
