Jonathan’s Comments (group member since Mar 05, 2009)

Jonathan’s comments from the fiction files redux group.

Ry wrote: "Jonathan wrote: "Hugh wrote: "Oh! Look, Pa! That Evison boy is going after old man Faulkner agin...

Don't know that sending The Bear after him will help, Swanny. I understand that some folks just ..."

. . . so, if i were a genius, i might say: shut your stupid hole ry! my way or the highway!

. . .hey, thanks for this stuff, dan!

. . .also, ben, you gotta get gina rho over here, i miss her analytics . . .

. . . yes, we gotta' get gregory over here . . .

. . .barn burning is my buddy tup's favorite, too . . . ironically,i may like faulkner's self-disparaged "pot boiler" sanctuary best, because it lacks the overbearing literary pretension of his more "ambitious" works . . . he tends toward the authorial more than i'm comfortable with . . .i'm interested in the magic itself more than the magician . . . in spite of his big biblical themes and hugely ambitious narrative endevours, and big colorful characters, and envelope-pushing linguistic bombast, nothing (for me) seems to loom larger in faulkner's work than faulkner himself . . .

Hugh wrote: "Oh! Look, Pa! That Evison boy is going after old man Faulkner agin...

Don't know that sending The Bear after him will help, Swanny. I understand that some folks just find Faulkner insufferable. I ..."

. . .ha! you're funny, hugh . . . i love the POV switches, as long as they're not repetitive, as i found them to be at times in absalom absalom . . .and i love the language when its not repetitive, as i often find it to be . . . and of course on of my biggest axes to grind has nothing to do with the writing, and everything to do with the writer, who from most reports was an insufferable pompous unkind megalomaniac . . . i just can't seem to forgive him that . . . he once said to steinbeck's wife (in her own house): how dare you even talk about my writing, or something to that effect . . .

. . . weird . . . ben have you read in persuasion nation?

. . . yeah, no doubt, sort of all over the map with the blurbs . . .

. . . since we're on the subject of nabokov, i'm currently reading "laughter in the dark," which has a sort of fairy-tailish tone to it . . . very readable, but so far not earth-shattering . . .

. . .also reading "in persuasion nation" by george saunders, which, if you can believe it, is the first george saunders i've ever actually read, though a few years back i wrote a series of stories that people kept comparing to george saunders, which i now take a compliment . . . ben, you would like this collection, it reminds of something brautigan might write if he were around today . . .saunders has an offbeat sensibility all his own . . .

Kerry wrote: "Shel, Lara and I are staying at the Best Western Pioneer Square, 77 Yesler Way. Have no idear if that will be close to you or not!! I'm still debating myself whether I will rent a car. These decisi..."

. . . yep, you're only about five blocks from the alexiz, kerry, which is on first between madison and spring . . .

Sjfinch wrote: "If a book makes money, it is simple fiction.
If a book makes no money, it is literary."

. . .nah, once again, sinclair lewis sold 180,000 copies of main street in 1920, and sinclair lewis is literary . . . michael chabon sold a quarte million copies of kavalier and clay, and that was literary . . . as a generalization, there is some truth to what you say, but by no means does the statement work as an absolute . . .

Lauren wrote: "I will most likely be taking a train or greyhound to Seattle from Central Washington, so I'd need someone to pick me up? =]"

Lauren wrote: "I will most likely be taking a train or greyhound to Seattle from Central Washington, so I'd need someone to pick me up? =]"

. . . greyhound is 9th and stewart, so you'll be right on the edge of downtown . . .

Shel wrote: "Lara/Kerry -- I'm staying in the city the night of the 26th and 27th at Hotel Alexis (1007 1st Avenue), and plan to come out on the 28th - for the drive up and for the costco trip I promised to mak..."

Jonathan wrote: " . . . yeah, we can convene at my house the morning of the 28th . . . are you guys staying in seattle or on the island on the 27th?"

. . .as luck would have it, the alexis has a cute little bar called "the boosktore" . . .

Matt wrote: "Chris wrote: "I'd add that pop fiction is well and good--most of us like to read a "trashy" book or an "airport novel" or whatever you want to call it from time to time. (I realize this is a prett..."

. . .geez, thanks ad!

. . . yeah, we can convene at my house the morning of the 28th . . . are you guys staying in seattle or on the island on the 27th?

Shel wrote: "Hm.

Well, the way I would do it were I on the inside of MySpace is to do what our team of developers at About very technically used to call (are you ready?) sucking it down and chewing it up. (Whi..."

. . .man, shel, i don't know what any of it means, but you sure are a smart cookie with this technology stuff . . .

Shel wrote: "I just started 2666 and so far it's pretty fun, though I understand it gets more serious. So far I'm reading about how much everyone loves this mysterious Archimbaldi guy, who is German (?!)...

Al..."

. . . shel, i've heard good things about hemon's book, which i believe made hudson's top ten along with lulu . . .

Patty wrote: "Ry wrote: " I've been re-reading Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" and I want to start designing a lesson plan to teach said book. And earlier today I was trying to think of a way to explain why ..."

. . . you lost me at motley crue, benji!

. . . deep down i like faulkner, really, i do! . . . love his themes, love his stylistic verve, courage, etc . . .he just gives me fits sometimes . . . and they're usually those occasions when i can't shake the suspicion that old bill had a few too many tipples before he sat down at the typewriter . . . if he'd only had the restraint of graham greene, who waited 500 words before he started getting hammered . . .

Jonathan wrote: "Michael wrote: "
Dewey is actually the index to the v2 Fiction Files (after MySpace dropped the group's home page somehow). I know as well as anyone, that the original v1 Fiction Files is where th..."

. . . if someone wants to spearhead such a project (ie act as editor), i'm sure i could get a few indie publishers to look at it . . . it really would be a great resource . . .