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I don’t check in or update my lists anymore really around here, but I had to drop in to say RIP to John O’Brien, founder of Dalkey Archive Press, the best and most important American publisher around.

Honest question to Goodreaders - should I take Samuel Beckett The Last Modernist (the biography) on a long plane ride or am I gonna just awfully regret that? Thanks.

This feels kind of cheap, because I don't hang around here like I used to, but some of you might be interested that I have a new album out today on Zeromoon records. It's a single composition of long form electronics and field recordings, split into 6 sections - when you download it it will play through as intended. Thanks and happy reading too!
https://zeromoon.bandcamp.com/album/d...

Holy shit - this book. Just the endnotes are a treasure

Hope you Goodreaders are enjoying Bachfest as the soundtrack to your year-end week and reading as I am
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Even at just the outset here I can see the scope of these is gloriously overwhelming - looking forward to countless winter evenings with these gentlemen.

RIP John Calder
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So if you'll indulge me, and forgive me, here's where I self-promote. One of several reasons I don't really hang around Goodreads anymore is that I spend a good deal of my time composing and performing live electronic music on hardware synthesizers. There are lots of new things over on Bandcamp for your listening pleasure if you are interested. Thanks! Shill over.
https://geoffwilt.bandcamp.com/

My parents gave me an Amazon gift certificate for my birthday so I bought all four volumes of Walter Benjamin's Selected Writings hell yeah

This writing is just chiming all my bells right about now

Hi goodreads crew - who's writing the big, satirical, comedic, melancholic, death-driven, humane tomes about living in the age of Trump? I'll have a little unbroken time to read again soon and would like some recommendations, thanks.

Oh hey Happy Bloomsday everyone. Pull that dusty copy of Ulysses from the shelf today, flip to a random page, and remember what good literature is.

James Joyce was born today. So, humanity wasn't a complete waste.

I AM HENRY BEMIS

FUUUUUCCCKKKKK tell me a book to buy myself for Christmas. Swear I'll do it.

Oh man. RIP William Gass. The worlds of words he's given us...

During my prolonged Goodreads absence, I am indeed reading.. for the Hegel curious I've been listening to these lectures on the Phenomenology, and dipping my toes into Hegel's letter and the text itself. But check 'em out - good stuff. Hope y'all are well:
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If any of y'all Goodreaders are interested, here's a nice recording of my live set at Sonic Circuits festival this past weekend
https://soundcloud.com/geoff-wilt/liv...

Sure others have said it, but RIP John Ashbery

A new piece of music for you good people. Let's make beauty while beauty still exists. Nothing's guaranteed so here's to compassion and empathy and those who want life to be beautiful.
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Uh, first of all, this book is like 311 pages, not 160. Can someone fix that? Also, this is Zizek at his most clear, his most readable, which to this idiot-boy is a welcome thing. Another book where Zizek is laying out just what the hell is wrong and just how the hell we can approach fixing it. Beautiful stuff.

OKAY FOLKS I'm not gonna be around GR for a couple of weeks (travel, etc.) BUT - a gift before I go - a big hunk of minimalism I recorded just for you and your lovely holiday weekend. Stream or download, listen to it at your BBQ or poolside! Fare foreword voyagers! Enjoy..
https://soundcloud.com/geoff-wilt/joh...

When you find out one of your favorite musicians is also a fan of Perec and Celan and your heart gets all good and warm feeling...

Taking Gaddis's letters on a long flight this weekend - not taking the dust jacket - it's too pretty to risk messing up!

A quick re-read of a favorite. I'm in a Sebald head space these days. There's certain maladies for which Sebald is the only paliative.

Hey creative types out there - you know that feeling when you make something and you think - yes - everything else I've been trying to do was prelude to this? It renders insignificant the stuff that came before, and marks a new point of departure? Know that? I'm pretty sure I did that last night.

Prayers of peace to everyone tonight.

"shoveling shadows into the darkness"

Just tried to make a Stendhal joke at work. Oh boy did that fall flat.