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

[Mark Kohut]

Thank you John,

You just "sold' me on a book and new writer I had not heard of.

Stay Home,

mark

On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 4:26 AM John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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