2024, as seen through my favourite reads 👇

www.instagram.com/reel/DD2IohQ...

You reading The Broken Tower (the biography, not the poem)?

The original John Wick

Today I learned that none other than Elfriede Jelinek (of recent 'The Children of the Dead' notoriety) translated 'Gravity's Rainbow' ('Die Enden der Parabel') into German.

Got Monsieur Teste on preorder! Not available in Aus until Jan

It's a hot mess and I loved it for that.

Everything you need to understand "what the hell is going on around here" can be found in these four 👇

Five writers from whom I've read five (or more) books:

1. Thomas Pynchon
2. James Joyce
3. László Krasznahorkai
4. William T Vollmann
5. Roberto Bolaño

Winding up for a second pass at SCHATTENFROH, which (mark my words) will go down in the historical annals with the likes of Finnegans Wake, The Man Without Qualities, and The Tunnel.

But first(!), some reading of its orbital source texts...

@ginormousminis.bsky.social Hey Mike, Seth from Metchosin here. Good to see you where the skies are blue

A relic from the Boeing Days. He had a humour to him, even back then.

"Y O U H A V E F I F T E E N S E C O N D S T O C O M P L Y"

One of my three Patreon subscriptions

this is not fight club

if it's your first time on bluesky, you do not have to fight

"It's embarrassing, isn't it? Enough to make you even more committed to the
cause. Enough to admit there's no way back now so I might as well at least enjoy this."

NW:

"He is the father you never quite manage to kill."

IYK,YK.

One of the permanent denizens within my cranial vault.

Zdzisław Beksiński, "Untitled"

This has been collecting dust on my shelf for the better part of 3 years. Thanks for the nudge.

P&V is 0/3 for me personally. Haven't read anyone else atm. I've heard good things about Katz' new translations.

Reading SK feels like waking up hungover after a bacchanalian orgy only to realise it's still going on and the dog has gotten involved.

In other words, a strong recommendation.

W.A.S.T.E. Mailing List Episode Nine:
A Deep Dive into the Collected Novellas of Arno Schmidt.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BYbHXZ45lI4&t=7s

W.A.S.T.E. Mailing List Episode 8: An Introduction to the work of Arno Schmidt.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7rNngCEwCdY

#HBDWTV

"The window goes blond slowly. Frostily clears.
From Cyclopean towers across Manhattan waters
-Two three bright window-eyes aglitter, disk The sun, released- aloft with cold gulls hither."

With the last two remaining neural synapses I have available left to fire, here's my meagre contribution to the discourse this evening:

An author who I've had back (and at times, front) of mind lately.

Ahhhhh, to be pathologically online.

G'day sky people