4 cups of world
14. Sometimes people write stupid shit just hoping for a response. Example, at Huff: Comparing Dave Barry and David Foster Wallace…right. (Next week David Stoesz will examine a midnight dinner of two bottles of white wine [fling cork into air, don’t need it]/rooftop blanket making out/grappling versus a quick lunch at Cracker Barrel.)
2. Over at The Short Review: Richard Yates Collected Stories.
4. June 30 is Indy Underground Reading Series. Donald Ray Pollock, Andrew Scott, The Brick Windows. Music, words, alcohol–what do you need in life?
7. Ernaux’s autobiographical books are breathtaking in their level of disclosure and unflinching as they rehash real-life experiences—obsessive love, bereavement, abortion, marriage, illness, sexual jealousy—that are not bizarre or uncommonly tragic, nor by any stretch uplifting or inspirational in the Eat, Pray, Love vein.
Amazing expose of Annie Ernaux at The Second Pass. Do you know her well? You should. Summer is here–get to jumping.
Tags: Andrew Scott, Annie Ernaux, Dave Barry, david foster wallace, Donald Ray Pollock, Indy Underground Reading, richard yates, The Brick Windows
Loved the Yates review. His Collected Stories should be a mandatory text for anyone interested in the form. I’ve probably gone over Yates’ stories more than any other writers and almost always include “Doctor Jack O’Lantern” on all my syllabi. But I agree with the reviewer: “Liars in Love” is his ultimate short story. But Yates will always be primarily a novelist for me. People usually only want to give credit to Revolutionary Road, but A Good School and Easter Parade and in many ways A Cold Spring Harbor are just so, so good. Have any of you guys read his biography or the amazing article Stewart O’Nan wrote about him maybe a decade back?
Thanks so much for the link to our Richard Yates review, excellently written, I think. another book I need to get…
I’m glad to know that I’m not the sole proponent of 2×4 polo.
I think that’s grass hockey, actually. If it was 2×4 polo he’d be riding a goat.
‘No one can access the kind of next-level shit the book promises; the redefinition of literature and possibly of consciousness itself; without some effort.’
Nice semi-colons, douchebag.
you don’t see the goat? I see the goat.
Are you going to be at the Indy Underground reading, Sean?
Loved the Yates review. His Collected Stories should be a mandatory text for anyone interested in the form. I’ve probably gone over Yates’ stories more than any other writers and almost always include “Doctor Jack O’Lantern” on all my syllabi. But I agree with the reviewer: “Liars in Love” is his ultimate short story. But Yates will always be primarily a novelist for me. People usually only want to give credit to Revolutionary Road, but A Good School and Easter Parade and in many ways A Cold Spring Harbor are just so, so good. Have any of you guys read his biography or the amazing article Stewart O’Nan wrote about him maybe a decade back?
Thanks so much for the link to our Richard Yates review, excellently written, I think. another book I need to get…
I’m glad to know that I’m not the sole proponent of 2×4 polo.
I think that’s grass hockey, actually. If it was 2×4 polo he’d be riding a goat.
‘No one can access the kind of next-level shit the book promises; the redefinition of literature and possibly of consciousness itself; without some effort.’
Nice semi-colons, douchebag.
Some version of me.
Right on, man. I’ll see some version of you there.
you don’t see the goat? I see the goat.
Are you going to be at the Indy Underground reading, Sean?
Some version of me.
Right on, man. I’ll see some version of you there.