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George’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at George’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Sea Above, Sun Below
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2020
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Zizzle Literary 1
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2018
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Mangled Hands
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House of Zolo's Journal of Speculative Literature: Volume 1
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Unreal Magazine (Vol. 1)
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2019
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Afterlives of the Writers
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2019
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The Holon Project Volume 3
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NonBinary Review #23: Apocalypse
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Tormented Flesh
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Duke, the Dog Priest
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2007
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Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing
Beyond honored to have unanimously won the Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing. I’m deeply grateful to the committee members, including Wendy Walker, Corina Bardoff, Sam Goodman, Michael Kowalski, Daniel Levin Becker, Eliza Grace Martin, and Philip Ording. The $10,000 from this award will fund my proposed project, a third novel after the soon-finished Morphological Echoes.
It’s my dream to wr Read more of this blog post »
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Art is not a luxury. It stands at the essence of our humanity, and it asks for no special protection except the right to exist....more |
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| Wolfe’s debut and Wolfe as a figure in the history of literature come with a mythos all their own. He couldn’t stop writing pages upon pages upon pages. He was rejected by every publisher until he found salvation in the arms of Maxwell Perkins, who t ...more | |
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| Forget, at least for now, Paul Schrader’s God’s lonely man because, almost two decades before Taxi Driver pulled up to the curb, Yukio Mishima’s Buddha’s lonely man had already spread like an arsonist’s conflagration throughout Japan. This, my first ...more | |
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| Ducornet’s magnificent debut concocts a dark and sardonic fable via the most mauve prose this side of Angela Carter. While tales of religious fanaticism can feel tired and weighed down by tropes, the characterization and zany storytelling energy, whi ...more | |
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| A cat may have nine lives, but Werner Herzog has lived nine thousand. Don’t believe the Dos Equis propaganda, Werner Herzog is the most interesting man in the world, and very much of the world too. In this, his first exhaustive memoir, Herzog touches ...more | |
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“‘If we got rid of all the margarine, the world would be a butter place….’” Christopher S. Peterson’s two-volume, 1,000-plus-page sophomore novel, Butter, or The Dairy of a Madman (Fomite Press), is closer to a cornucopian collection, an exploded ency ...more |
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A depressive and beautiful accomplishment in the face of the empty American experience. And yes, the prose is perfection, visceral and revelatory. The ending guts. I'm planning on having Garielle Lutz on the next episode of The Collidescope Podcast so ...more |
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"The mitosis of misery, the cloning of loneliness." You can read my review here: https://thecollidescope.com/2025/08/1... I also received a lovely email from Lutz herself, which makes such efforts all the more worth the time and energy: "Thank you so m ...more |
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| Ever reads as though Blake Butler encountered Lutz, whose first story collection debuted in 1996, and decided to mimic the style in this 2009 effort. While the novella's not original in that sense, it is original when compared to the inept and uninsp ...more | |
“A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.”
― The Satanic Verses
― The Satanic Verses
“Art creates the Eden where Adam and Eve eat the serpent.”
― Darconville's Cat
― Darconville's Cat
“The earth is literally a mirror of thoughts. Objects themselves are embodied thoughts. Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything.”
― Mr. Sammler's Planet
― Mr. Sammler's Planet
“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
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“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”
― The Satanic Verses
― The Satanic Verses
Women and Men Group Read - 2021
— 32 members
— last activity Mar 23, 2021 04:51AM
This group read will be hosted by George Salis and Ryan Alexander, with the official reading beginning on January 22nd. Occasional Zoom meetings will ...more
Madeleine Dunkers
— 35 members
— last activity Apr 03, 2019 03:37PM
(proto-)Modernism: Proust, Joyce, Musil (& Cervantes, & Sterne &...) et al est'd August 2017 by ATJG, esq. ...more
Alexander Theroux Ville
— 118 members
— last activity Jan 07, 2026 03:01PM
The Theroux revival continues. This group counts as a village forum for discussing the works of Alexander Theroux. Both scholars and the naive and cur ...more
The BURIED Book Club
— 932 members
— last activity Oct 09, 2025 06:06PM
TODAY BOOKS ARE NOT BURNED. THEY ARE BURIED. WE SHALL UNEARTH THEM.
Women and Men
— 229 members
— last activity Nov 07, 2025 04:09AM
Women and Men began as a reading group for Joseph McElroy's masterpiece. It has developed into All Things McElroy. We have chapter threads for discuss ...more
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling
— 76 members
— last activity May 01, 2025 06:55PM
We shall provide a platform for a group reading of Marguerite Young's mammoth novel, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling. There is no schedule. Read as you wil ...more
The Tunnel Group Read - 2021
— 46 members
— last activity Nov 09, 2021 05:06PM
This group read will be hosted by George Salis and Ryan Alexander, with the official reading beginning on November 1st. Aside from chatting via text ...more
Bottom's Dream
— 123 members
— last activity Feb 19, 2024 06:21PM
This a group to read and celebrate the writings of Arno Schmidt, with especial emphasis upon the forthcoming release of the Woodsing of his Meisterstü ...more
