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Back-to-back “is it fact or fiction” type works makes this schtick waaaaay more grating than I would normally find the genre

so darkly funny that Ellis manages to write in a scene here that echoes his weird defence of Epstein from his podcast

This scene where he’s pitching Less Than Zero is essentially just the Seinfeld pitch scene where George is yelling that it’s a show about nothing

Charming in its obvious nostalgia that Bret clearly harbours over being once an enfant terrible at a fancy private school

This mushroom essay is maybe the Most Peter Handke that Peter Handke has ever been

God pity these poor Romantic bourbon restorationists

wonder if Handke ever read Blanchot, his “quiet place” thing is pretty synchronous with Blanchot’s solitude bit from the first chapter of Space of Literature

A real “hijinx ensue” type novel

A bit clunkier than the prose in other Handke books

Bro don’t commit to the duel. You’re gonna get kicked out of the seminary

Stendhal is goated

Funny how much derision that guy gets for being a “bookworm”. Truly the lowest of the low

Alice Munro

Gonna try and finish this today but the style might give me narcolepsy

Only re-reading the second novel in this loose trilogy because it’s the best one and also the only one I own a copy of

Scenes From the Life of a Faun is so goated

Re-reading for the first time in maybe 5 years. Beautiful book. Can’t imagine what a pain this was to translate

wonderful reference to New Brunswick lobster in here

Language conceals; the body mumbles

“Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself” reddit ass novel

Hmmm

Did Der Nister start the joke format by saying “a favour? In this economy?”

cormac’s still got it. Not sure which living American writer comes close to touching him at this point. Pynchon? Do we even know if he’s still alive?

Every shtetl has a Lisitsin-Sventislavski at their banquet

Wonder what Der Nister would think of the fact that the synagogue in my hometown was sold and renovated into startup offices

this man is straining so hard to avoid using the word dialectics

Mill’s conception of liberalism may have required a certain capacity for poetic penetration, no i will not take him seriously as a literary critic; i do not want to

“the only trouble with great literature is that any asshole can identify with it”

i can’t remember - had franco moretti been cancelled yet by 2018 (when this was published) ?

Handke is making me believe in FRAGMENTS