Not pynchon. Book recommendation. PREPARATION FOR THE NET LIFE.

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http://observer.com/2014/11/the-son-also-writes-it-atticus-lishs-roundabout-path-to-literary-success/

Mr. Lish did have a flash of literary success early in life. When he was 9,
the budding writer contributed some prose that ended up inserted verbatim
into *The Names*, the classic novel by his father’s buddy Don DeLillo. (“A
printed shout from the housetops goes as well to Atticus Lish, in fond
appreciation,” reads Mr. DeLillo’s note in the acknowledgements.)

I think this section of prose must be the last chapter of the book, which
has an excerpt of the protagonist's son's own book.

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Book recs are a dime apiece with a nickel back. I find most new novels
> of little interest these days although I haven't looked at too many
> that get compared to Pynchon, Delillo, etc. for my own reasons.
>
> But I was attracted to the backstory of Atticus Lish's PREPARATION FOR
> THE NEXT LIFE, and that it was about " some on the margins of society"
> . That's almost always interesting to me.
>
> Want to know a little of what it might feel like to be rounded up and
> kept in prison in a Patriot Act raid as a young woman alone in America
> knowing almost no English? " Just relax, just relax" that
> blame-the-victim form of social control....."they told her
> nothing".."she knew nothing...."there were no lawyers
> anywhere".....she has to ask about everything in a real world of
> Kafkaesque confusion.
> " Want me to leave you alone here? " (cell of violent male prisoners)
>
> And a physically wounded and also in the head drug-taking vet who has
> flashbacks of searing pain and failures on the battlefield...
>
> Working out together in Queens in an American Journey to the End of
> the Night. Maybe. In prose more alive than their deadened world.
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
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