Book cover: Transparent Things, by Vladimir Nabokov
"She answered in fluent but artificial English that she detested surrealistic novels of the poetic sort. She demanded hard realistic stuff reflecting our age. She liked books about Violence and Oriental Wisdom. Did it get better farther on?"
“A routine would be too much like work, and I don’t really like to work, even though I work a great deal. All the things I do that might be considered work are really a form of play.” —Jamaica Kincaid buff.ly/BQ4wuZY
Glad you enjoyed the piece, fellas, and Lance I greatly enjoyed your book.
Yes, the Clark analogy is a bit hyperbolic, but those were hardly his only clients. I had in mind Meaney's characterisation of him here. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Glad the loggerheads brought some cheer.
I read it regularly between 2006 and 2009 when I was doing Readings at Harper's and would put poems from PN in. Haven't read it much since.
I hear you. I've been between apartments, so I'm psyched for a cycle of print re-upping next month.
Which ones?
‘The two memoirs together with “Pan” – which is autobiographical, though there are some deviations from his life – form a trilogy about the derangements of youth.’
@xlo.bsky.social on the relationship between Michael Clune’s debut novel and his memoirs of addiction.
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IN DEFENSE OF DIANE KEATON: QUALITY LIT GAME PODCAST EPISODE 3
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‘Lanier’s songs moved many of his contemporaries. Herrick called him “rare Laniere” while John Donne said he “gave a life and harmony to all that he set”.’
Alice Spawls on the rediscovery of a portrait of one of the most intriguing figures of the 17th century.
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A couple of new pieces I wrote on a book and a word. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/panic-in-t...
Quality Lit Game Podcast Episode 2
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A noun that becomes a verb is like a cat that's gone to the dogs.
Against 'to gift'.
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William Gaddis heads will recognize that Trump is engaged here in a frolic of his own
Recorded a podcast with some friends about the PTA picture. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/quality-li...
An old column about my gambling addiction from which I've finally recovered after years of intensive therapy. open.substack.com/pub/christia...
“Along with Don DeLillo, he survives as one of the granddaddies of the paranoid systems novel, and we are unlikely to read many or any more new novels from the pair.”
In @bookforum.bsky.social, Christian Lorentzen reviews Thomas Pynchon’s new novel “Shadow Ticket” www.bookforum.com/print/3202/i...
On the end of Oranginas and the perpetuation of auras! Spoiler alert: yes can be smarter than no!
we will miss glossy magazines when they’re all gone
Once more for the weekend crowd.
Thank you for informing us that we have finally achieved a classic-noir-level murder rate. I expect the genre now to enter a new golden age.
“I have some new poems, a rash, and a lover. I’ll send them (the poems that is) to you in a couple of days.”
Letters from Jack Spicer. buff.ly/3XRcS00
