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Jonathan’s 2025 Year in Books
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The Angels of L19
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Push Process
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Five Wounds: An Illuminated Novel
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Pistols! Treason! Murder!: The Rise and Fall of a Master Spy
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A Zone
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Five Inspirations for Push Process
Below is a piece that was originally published on the website of Lunate journal. Since Lunate is no more, and the website is defunct, I'm reposting it here (with some minor alterations).
My novel with photographs, Push Process, is about Richard, a postgraduate student researching in Venice, who abandons the archive to take photographs. It’s a work of autofiction, based in part on the years I sp Read more of this blog post »
My novel with photographs, Push Process, is about Richard, a postgraduate student researching in Venice, who abandons the archive to take photographs. It’s a work of autofiction, based in part on the years I sp Read more of this blog post »
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“His mind was freshly inclined toward sorrow; toward the fact that the world was full of sorrow; that everyone labored under some burden of sorrow; that all were suffering; that whatever way one took in this world, one must try to remember that all were suffering (none content; all wronged, neglected, overlooked, misunderstood), and therefore one must do what one could to lighten the load of those with whom one came into contact; that his current state of sorrow was not uniquely his, not at all, but, rather, its like had been felt, would be felt, by scores of others, in all times, in every time, and must not be prolonged or exaggerated, because, in this state, he could be of no help to anyone and, given that his position in the world situated him to be either of great help, or great harm, it would not do to stay low, if he could help it.”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
― Lincoln in the Bardo
“Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck and money; stories and fantasies about rock stars and film stars, sporting millionaires and models; jet-setting members of the aristocracy and international financiers.”
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