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Jonathan Jonathan said: " A masterpiece by an unjustly forgotten Modernist




In 1929 William Faulkner's publisher felt that his status as minor but provocative author would need critical support if his new book, The Sound and the Fury, was to be well received. It was submit
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"Rereading this masterpiece as I found it has been republished and that feels like a good enough excuse…" Jun 01, 2026 11:06AM

 
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Paul West
“Minimalism is close to mediocrity and mindlessness, a way for the ungifted to have a literary career, and for readers who really hate literature to pretend to be reading something serious.”
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James Joyce
“When the moon of mourning is set and gone.
Over Glinaduna.
Lonu nula.
Ourselves, oursouls alone.
At the site of salvocean.
And watch would the letter you’re wanting be coming may be.
And cast ashore.”
James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

Joseph McElroy
“Novels are narratives to be in. To live in. To exist in. Not primarily forms to jump into and get to the end of. It’s a substance that the great big novel becomes…which invites you to be in it, not necessarily to leave it. To move around in it. To move laterally.”
Joseph McElroy

Nathaniel Mackey
“And it's a case in point of the fact that these traditions—the mythology, the lore—are not being gone to as some kind of fixed, given entity that one then has to have a subservient relationship to. They are active and unfinished; they are subject to change; they are themselves in the process of transformation and transition. They speak to an open and open-ended possibility that the poetics that I've been involved in very much speaks to as well. To see cracks and incompleteness as not only inevitable but opportune.”
Nathaniel Mackey

Nathaniel Mackey
“What any experimental art is trying to get you to do is move beyond your preconceptions and your expectations regarding what should be happening, what's going to happen, what kinds of effects it should have, and enter a liminal state in which those things can be redefined in the way that the particular artist or piece of art is proposing.”
Nathaniel Mackey

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TODAY BOOKS ARE NOT BURNED. THEY ARE BURIED. WE SHALL UNEARTH THEM.
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Lotts hab funn at Finnegans wake!! Here Comes Everybody!! Alle Laffing Prettee!!!
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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
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