Nora Bossong recommends Mason & Dixon as Corona reading because it has so many pages ...

[John Bailey]

Everyone read some Gerald Murnane! Perfect time to enter his state of
hazy sun-blindedness, where the horizon between the sky and the plains
disappears. The Australian Cormac McCarthy (sans violence).
Conversely, another local author (b. Ukraine) just won the world's
richest literary prize and if you want a series of essays that
intelligently lacerate with cauterising afterwards, Maria Tumarkin's
Axiomatic is it:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/19/maria-tumarkin-on-winning-the-2020-windham-campbell-it-feels-like-a-complicated-gift

On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 6:54 PM Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Now it’s my turn to admit I’d never heard of this before today!
>
> Have read The Recognitions* but not JR. A scan of Wikipedia’s list of
> longest novels reminds me of various works I’ve failed to approach:
> Clarissa, Les Miserables, A Dance to the Music of Time, Women and Men, The
> Dream of the Red Chamber.
>
> I do also have A Suitable Boy lined up; have long been intrigued by Uwe
> Johnson’s Anniversaries, which I believe have only recently been translated
> into English; will probably give Atlas Shrugged a miss (I’ve seen two film
> adaptations of The Fountainhead and that feels like more than enough Ayn
> Rand for one lifetime)
>
> My current reading pile is hardly the most esoteric - Alias Grace and The
> Waves - but we’ve all got to find time to read the supposed canon
> somewhere, so enjoy your reading time
>
> On Wednesday, April 1, 2020, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Been wanting to read MIss Macintosh, My Darling for 50+ years. Now I just
> > want to have read it.
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > > On Mar 31, 2020, at 6:25 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Don't forget Gaddis for your list of doorstoppers. My favorite is J R but
> > > The Recognitions is incredible and A Frolic of His Own is hilarious.
> > (They
> > > are all hilarious, to be sure. Carpenter's Gothic shorter, still very
> > > good).
> > >
> > >> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:39 PM John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Gary: I just read Mishima's Confessions of a Mask and damn he's a hell
> > >> of a writer. Absolutely of interest to fans of Pynchon (esp. GR).
> > >>
> > >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 8:02 AM Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com
> > >
> > >> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> For those as lazy as I am right now, I have a virtual copy of the
> > Albert
> > >>> Finney UNDER THE VOLCANO that I'm happy to loan. Contact me off P-List
> > >> for
> > >>> details.
> > >>>
> > >>> -Allan in WV
> > >>>
> > >>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 4:39 PM Thomas Eckhardt <
> > >> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
> > >>> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> Just see to it that your children do not destroy the garden.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> Am 31.03.2020 um 16:03 schrieb Jochen Stremmel:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> (Drinking mezcal, I'm reading Under the Volcano: what a great book.)
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