Jaimy Gordon

[Mark Kohut]

Local Anesthetic by Gunter Grass...a favorite before I read one of the big
ones.

Look up TRP's letter about Romain Gary. And Genghis Khan.

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 1:43 AM peterthooper at juno.com <peterthooper at juno.com>
wrote:

> Not Plague related at all (but one might be an escapist reader) -
>
> Jaimy Gordon’s _Lord of Misrule_  and _She Drove Without Stopping_ are
> pleasurable, even delectable, imho.
> Next up, _Shamp of the City-Solo_
>
> Selling point for me was an interview in which she said a major early
> influence was _Urn Burial_ which is quite unlike her books except for
> amazing turns of phrase every so (quite) often.
>
> _Urn Burial_ might be closer to plague reading, though.
>
> Also started Richard Powers’ _The Overstory_ but left it in my storage
> unit. It hums along, & now that older one of his about opera singers is on
> my Audible wish list. _Orpheus_ was really enjoyable to listen to.
>
> Wikipedia articles about viruses very fascinating. Coronavirus pic is
> beautiful!
>
> Last but not least, spurred by the movie “Seberg” which I thought quite
> moving though the critics seem to think it should’ve been a lot better (but
> shouldn’t we all) - found a couple books by Romain Gary. _The Dance of
> Genghis Cohn_ is kind of a hoot.
> And reminds me of this book by Gunter Grass that I started reading in the
> library, about a guy and his dentist, same kind of sort of flat-affect
> delivery, but for some reason never finished. So that’s back on the list.
>
> Hope they don’t cancel everything, I want to go see Judy Collins and
> Wynton Marsalis and King Crimson this year. And Pharaoh Sanders has a
> Boston gig in May - like the novels of TRP, a reason for living.
>
> Let’s all not get ill!
> What if they gave a plague and nobody came?
>
> Odd fact: epizootic in late 19th century killed 25% of all horses in New
> England. Years later people were referring to their own minor illnesses as
> “the epizootic.” I’ve heard this in a comedy routine - maybe WC Fields?
>
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