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

Wed Apr 1 13:59:13 UTC 2020

John Bailey: Second the Gerald Murnane recommendation. After reading the article(s) posted here about him, I’ve read several of his books. He is great.

Anybody like Lookout Cartridge by James McElroy?

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> On Apr 1, 2020, at 4:53 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Anniversaries IS great. It has infused discussion groups I am part of AND
> my Lifelong Learning
> class on the sixties.
> 
> One paragraph or part I quoted here Jochen confirmed was good translating.
> 
> Re:* Miss MacIntosh*. I confess. I was a young kid, burning with You Must
> Know Everything fervor (direct allusion to
> Babel's great story), now reading book reviews for the first time ever
> (LOL. A waste of time that came to define a career
> when, young, I  just should have been gulping down classics) and ex-Marxist
> Granville Hicks reviewed it in *The Saturday Review*
> and, of course, I wondered how he could have read it so fast and I wanted
> to read it then and there but i didn't, couldn't,  although
> within a decade I HAD a hardcover (and I hope it wasn't a first edition;
> were there two printings, I guess so) which I kept for decades
> and how one loses a book THAT SIZE in one move or other is another mystery
> of life. Just like I lost the small in height but very stout
> oxford classics edition of *War & Peace* somehow alone in my apartment in
> Jersey City!.
> 
> I must have given the Macintosh away (or donated it somewhere) figuring I
> would never....
> 
> And now I am reading the Maude translation of *War & Peace*...again.
> 
> And I did donate *Women & Men* to the book sale in town I used to run for
> the usual "i'll be dead before I read it" reasons and when it sold I
> immediately wanted it back. LOL.
> 
> Robert Gottlieb, when young, but twenties young not teen young, when he
> wanted to read Proust did it almost like a campaign. Planned a week alone
> in his room; told friends not to bother him; did not do anything else but
> eat and read, ignoring the phone, the mail and he did get to the end in a
> week. A book a day, of 12-14 or more hours a day. Too me two years at @50
> pages a week.
> 
> But I think Rich's 20 pages a day of* Macintosh* might be the way...I can
> read other stuff too and not feel all alone in one book.
> 
>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 3:54 AM 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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