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William Todd Schultz
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| Absolutely mesmerizing and hypnotic. The writing is brilliantly spare and clipped. It's my first DeLillo since grad school and it floored me. I was reading several other books at the same time and none compared for sheer artistry. High Rec. ...more | |
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| I love Denis Johnson in the successes and in the failures because like all truly great artists he is 1) sincere and 2) creatively restless and eager to take risks. In all, I've read, I think, 10 of his books. My favs are probably unusual: Largesse of ...more | |
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"Both beautiful and tragic. I listened to elliot’s discography a lot whilst reading this book and I cried at one point when listening to ‘Angeles’ from Either/Or. It’s a real in depth peephole into his life and after reading it I can declare that gett"
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"Am I wholeheartedly convinced by the read of Capote? Not quite. Do I admire the approach? Yes it’s good fun"
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| An engrossing read that instantly had me put down the other book I was reading (always a good sign). At times it can get rambling and too far into the weeds as different characters and plot lines are followed but for the most part you're carried alon ...more | |
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| Love Garcia Marquez always; but this book is odd in one important respect: there is (almost) no dialogue. So, it's entirely a storyteller spinning a yarn with all the action narrated. This fact has made me think of the purpose of dialogue in a novel. ...more | |
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| The Shards is a movie pitch turned into a novel. I've not read BEE before. I like his podcast. He's smart and refreshingly opinionated, especially about film. And I will admit, I read the entire book. I read it in the backyard sun. I read it on plane ...more | |
“And what the music elicits—in me, in most everyone who hears it and takes to it—is a strangely comforting, sensual melancholy, a gentle sadness, the kind that comes with soft rain. It’s the same for all truly great dark art. There’s a pleasure in seeing our shadows paraded beautifully. It’s liberating to find them so prettily decked out, a sort of reverse Halloween.”
― Torment Saint: The Life of Elliott Smith
― Torment Saint: The Life of Elliott Smith
“Elliott was disarmingly bright, according to everyone who knew him, an avid reader of Dostoevsky, Kafka, Beckett, Stendhal, Freud, the Buddha, all of whom destabilized notions of identity. I think he knew how little we know about who we are. The idea comes through in lyrics. “I don’t know who I am,” he says simply; at times he wishes he were no one. He’s a stickman shooting blanks at emptiness, living with “one dimension dead.” He’s an invisible man with a see-through mind. He’s a junkyard full of false starts. He’s a ghost-writer, feeling hollow.”
― Torment Saint: The Life of Elliott Smith
― Torment Saint: The Life of Elliott Smith
“Once he gave her a Rothko book—an interesting choice, since like Elliott, Rothko also attended Lincoln High School in Portland (as had poet Gary Snyder and Simpsons creator Matt Groening). The”
― Torment Saint: The Life of Elliott Smith
― Torment Saint: The Life of Elliott Smith
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“For in the immediate world, everything is to be discerned, for him who can discern it, and central and simply, without either dissection into science, or digestion into art, but with the whole of consciousness, seeking to perceive it as it stands: so that the aspect of a street in sunlight can roar in the heart of itself as a symphony, perhaps as no symphony can: and all of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiation of what is.”
― Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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