NP. The "Artful" thread OR "Every morning, some new, crazy shit."

[Mark Kohut]

Speaking of female novelists---which is a ridiculous segue very akin to the
crazy segue way Charles Portis
sees Americans acting and talking in this absurd country for any logic, one
of Roth's key themes [see 1963 essay]  & a new reading discovery (this is
another
faux Portis tic) --first time with odds for the recent Nobel, I learned,
despite a small near-perfect output and a writer recommended to me years
ago by a Plister which I finally acted on although I still do not know why
I was gifted with
the recommendation because I could see no connection in the kind verbal
act, but I guess that is a Portis-
like connection too---Virginia Woolf really had it together at her deepest
and widest level in To The Lighthouse, which
in the above spirit I suggest all Plisters 'should' read but there are no
'shoulds' really, the stream of fiction is
so wide only Harold Bloom can speed swim through it.

Anyway, to tie up this pretentious post over wake-up coffee--pretention an
ongoing theme
which might not be circumvented by meta-preemptive awareness of it, that
meta that DFW so hated,
I suggest that the movement of the words between commas and the number of
them in this post is another homage---this time
to Ms. Woolf, suffering genius, although it is surely a Crying Wolf homage.

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 11:04 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Second Last Samurai about as I hard as I can second. She's brilliant, book
> is great and singular, all Plisters should read.
>
> On Nov 29, 2016, at 6:02 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> And now I've started reading Helen DeWitt's The Last Samurai, and I love
> it so far.  I only read 40 pages last night, but I can't wait to get home
> and get into again.  Here's a review from when it was initially published
> in 2001, on her site:
>
> http://www.helendewitt.com/dewitt/review01.html
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 7:35 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My library of yet unread books just grew by three...thanks a lot, I think!
>>
>> Www.innergroovemusic.com
>>
>> > On Nov 28, 2016, at 10:17 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Not I -  but thank you for the recommendation -  it’s now on my wish
>> list.   :-)
>> >
>> > And to whomever mentioned The Quincunx by Charles Palliser I’ll second
>> (or third) it.
>> >
>> > Bekah/Becky
>> > back in California and on the list!   :-)
>> >
>> >> On Nov 28, 2016, at 6:39 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for the recommendation.
>> >>
>> >> I recently finished another book that someone recommended here - can't
>> remember who - Bekah?
>> >>
>> >> A Naked Singularity, by Sergio De La Pava. A brilliant deconstruction
>> of the criminal justice system, and well worth the read, though I do think
>> the book would have been stronger if he'd had an editor to work with (he
>> self-published). Some of the tangents he goes off on start to cloy. Did the
>> recommender say it was Pynchon-esque? There is a Whole Sick Crew-like group
>> of roommates, but it seems to be more inspired by Junot Diaz, Cortazar,
>> etc. - with a little Dostoyevsky thrown in, for good measure.
>> >>
>> >> Laura
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Robert Mahnke
>> >> Sent: Nov 28, 2016 5:59 PM
>> >> To: P-list
>> >> Subject: Artful (NP)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I've just read Ali Smith's Artful, and recommend it, fwiw.  It's
>> remarkable, and unlike anything else I can think of.
>> >> - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>> >
>> > Becky
>> > https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > -
>> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20161201/a96ed4a9/attachment.html>