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

[Keith Davis]

Wow, man, keep drinking that coffee!

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> On Dec 1, 2016, at 8:17 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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!
>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>>> > 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
>>> 
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