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from the Completists' Club group.
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amazon.com has this listed as 1975. Best beat is that its either excerpts from MMMD or her work-in-progress on Debs. But neither sounds right.
Three stories ::My Grandmother's Foot (previously unpub'd)
The Dead Women (American Prefaces, 1943)
Old James (Kenyon Review, 1944)
Pages 3 to 33.
I have never heard of "Below the City" before. It's either a different MY or it was incorrectly listed. And that description isn't ringing true as MY's stories.
I haven't garnered a new completionista author for quite some time. But I accidentally encountered Sullivan's books in The Village Bookshop while browsing for something else. The spine of one of her books resembled a spine of one of Sorrentino's novels. And then I found he'd blurb'd her. So I brought home three of hers ; happily they were signed! Then I order her other two. Now I only have one left to read. All in about a month's time.Dead Magician
The Correspondence
Games of the Blind
Four of Fools
The Concise Book of Lying (for the completionization!)
Over all I'd say she's writing some enthralling genre stuff ('thrillers' I suppose they're called) with a very delicious metafictional touch. There may be a slight bit too much mad love through her novels for some of you to handle (like me!) but the whole works wonderfully.
Read them all!
Jonathan wrote: "Just completed Leon Forrest, who I would not have hear of without Ali and Nathan, so many many thanks to you both."Brilliant! Do you still have Conversations with Leon Forrest to look forward to?
I'll be completionizing her fiction and essays. Score so far ::Novels
The Stain -- (1984); revised edition Dalkey Archive Press (1995)
Entering Fire -- (1986)
Short fiction collections
The Butcher's Tales (1980)
The Complete Butcher's Tales, Dalkey (1994)
The Word 'Desire' (1997)
The One Marvelous Thing (2008)
Essays
The Monstrous and the Marvelous -- (1999)
from wikipedia ::Novels
The Stain -- (1984); revised edition Dalkey Archive Press (1995)
Entering Fire -- (1986)
The Fountains of Neptune -- (1989)
The Jade Cabinet -- (1993)
Phosphor in Dreamland -- (1995)
The Fan-Maker's Inquisition -- (1999)
Gazelle -- (2003)
Netsuke: a novel -- (2011)
Brightfellow -- (2016)
Short fiction collections
The Butcher's Tales (1980)
The Complete Butcher's Tales (1994)
The Word 'Desire' (1997)
The One Marvelous Thing (2008)
Poetry
From The Star Chamber (as "Rikki") -- (1974)
Wild Geraniums -- (1975)
Bouche a Bouche with Guy Ducornet -- (1975)
Weird Sisters (as "Rikki") -- (1976)
Knife Notebook (as "Rikki") -- (1977)
The Illustrated Universe (as "Rikki") -- (1979)
The Cult of Seizure -- (1989)
Essays
The Monstrous and the Marvelous -- (1999)
The Deep Zoo -- (2015)
Anthologies edited
Shoes & Shit: Stories for Pedestrians edited by Geoff Hancock & Rikki Ducornet -- (1984)
Children's books
The Blue Bird Adaptation of Mme. D'Aulnoy's old French fairy tale -- (1970)
Shazira Shazam and the Devil by Rikki and Guy Ducornet -- (1972)
Illustrations
Spanking the Maid by Robert Coover (1981)
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges (1983)
Torn Wings and Faux Pas by Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1997)
Horse, Flower, Bird by Kate Bernheimer (2010)
Larou wrote: "I recently read The Scholars and, after enjoying that considerably more than I had been expecting, just started on [book:The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei: Volume One: T..."Great to hear! And it's totally do-able. Only something like 20 volumes total.
So now with Lookout Cartridge down I'm two away ; which two will be read from within a very sophisticatedly shuffled reading schedule this 2016. [Plus Preparations for Search which I still haven't gotten my hands on ; it's more elusive than W&M]
oh yes right! I need to steer back to the Elkin madness again too! Slow road to completionization, but I might end up in his maelstrom.
Same as the past two years, I intend to Completionize McElroy in '16. And again Gass. [making my technical Pynchon Completionism honest with an M&D (re)read]. Those will Completionize my Familienähnlichkeiten completionization goal (unless I discover I like Powers more than I did his Gold Bug which was good but not quite there). Then I've got ::Zadie Smith (only Autographman)
Mary Caponegro -- a short oeuvre, but worth it
Arno Schmidt -- It's possible to completionize him in a pre-ZT manner ; just one Dalkey of novellas and his Abend mit Goldrand
Carole Maso
Raymond Federman == I've taken credit for Completionization, but little things always seem to pop up, so I'll try to keep up with that stuff.
James Joyce (?) -- this might be too much because it involves three volumes of his letters.
Amos Tutuola
And I'll probably find a few Latin American's whose translated work I'll completionize, like very likely Guillermo Cabrera Infante ; or just all of Suzanne Jill Levine's closelaberations.
Lobstergirl wrote: "Does anyone else see this thread and immediately think of Fin Tutuola from Law and Order: SVU? (The character played by Ice-T.)"Always. And for good reason ; Fin took his name from Amos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Tu...
Bely’s Petersburg -- yesyes!!Witkiewicz’s Insatiability -- oh yes I know!
Barnes’ Ryder and Ladies Almanack -- yep. And reread Nightwood.
Gombrowicz’s Polish jokes -- I just recently (finally!) got his Pornografia
Flann O’Brien’s Irish farces -- thought I'd get the novels-in-one-volume (too much $$ usually) so I should just start picking up those Dalkeys -- because they've been on my to=due for three+years.
Philip Wylie’s Finnley Wren -- really no excuses.
Jonathan wrote: "How are we all going with the completionising? I have read 51 of them, apparently, so am over half way (just)"Haven't made much progress since I last checked in. But those porto=spanish and Latin=American things are my focus veryvery soon.
Jonathan wrote: "How are we all going with the completionising? I have read 51 of them, apparently, so am over half way (just)"I was on my way over there to take inventory. I think I'm tallying over at ::
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Nathan "N.R." wrote: "Coover completionized!!! Next up, McElroy (four or five to roll!) "Well done!"
Danke! Of the several authors I've completionized, I've gotta say that perhaps only Gaddis challenges Coover for consistently out=performing himself.
Coover Completionized!!!
Nathan "N.R." wrote: "Otherwise, my GOALS for 2015 Completionism look like a recuperation of my past year's failures ::Joseph McElroy
William H. Gass
Coover completionized!!! Next up, McElroy (four or five to roll!)
Jonathan wrote: "I got 7 down, but certainly intend to do the rest..."Yes! Which?
The several I've not read have been on my urgent=to=read list for a looong time now. Really need to take care of these things in a more timely manner...
The list and my score ::by D. Keith Mano
Darconville’s Cat
by Alexander Theroux
by Harold Brodkey
by Joseph McElroy
You Bright and Risen Angels
by William T. Vollmann
by Leon Forrest
by Richard Powers
The Brunist Day of Wrath
by Robert Coover
Mulligan Stew
by Gilbert Sorrentino
by Joshua Cohen
by Raymond Federman
Omega Minor
by Paul Verhaeghen
The Tunnel
by William H. Gass
Frog
by Stephen Dixon
by Marguerite Young
Die Dämonen
by Heimito von Doderer
by Various
and additions as of 19Aug2018 ::
Zettel's Traum
by Schmidt [on my cr]
The Making of Americans
by Stein [on deck]
Lobstergirl wrote: "He was the subject of "By the Book" in the NYT this past Sunday."Yep. He's quite the voracious and diverse reader.
btw, most Vollmann traffic tends to head over toward Central ::
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...
Naturally, there's no reason not to keep this thread alive too!
