April 26th, 2010 / 11:05 am
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Kristen Iskandrian—
I really want to call someone “the Santana of the literary world,” but I don’t know whom.
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Aleksandr Hemon = Santana
also:
Rick Moody = Yes
Dave Eggers = ELO
David Foster Wallace = King Crimson
Jonathan Franzen = Chicago
Michael Chabon = Boston
Jonthan Lethem = Rush
Aleksandr Hemon = Santana
also:
Rick Moody = Yes
Dave Eggers = ELO
David Foster Wallace = King Crimson
Jonathan Franzen = Chicago
Michael Chabon = Boston
Jonthan Lethem = Rush
I want to know who the Santa of the literary world is.
I want to know who the Santa of the literary world is.
The beauty of linking Rick Moody to YES is the feeling of how absolutely annoyed Rick Moody would be if he knew he was being linked with YES.
The beauty of linking Rick Moody to YES is the feeling of how absolutely annoyed Rick Moody would be if he knew he was being linked with YES.
I think that YES would be much more annoyed to be linked to Moody.
The Santana of the literary world is Tom Wolfe: won’t shut up, inexplicably liked, and nothing more than a flavorless pastiche of himself.
I think that YES would be much more annoyed to be linked to Moody.
The Santana of the literary world is Tom Wolfe: won’t shut up, inexplicably liked, and nothing more than a flavorless pastiche of himself.
Lydia Davis = Laurie Anderson
Lydia Davis = Laurie Anderson
Lorrie Moore = ……… Liz Phair? (haha….)
Lorrie Moore = ……… Liz Phair? (haha….)
I can’t tell if you hate those authors or just have bad taste in music.
I can’t tell if you hate those authors or just have bad taste in music.
Kahlil Gibran?
Kahlil Gibran?
DFW = aphex twin
Paulo Coelho.
Paulo Coelho.
that’s pretty close, but I think Coelho is more like Yanni.
that’s pretty close, but I think Coelho is more like Yanni.
I love this game.
Joyce Carol Oates – Madonna
I love this game.
Joyce Carol Oates – Madonna
Donald Barthelme = Captain Beefheart
Donald Barthelme = Captain Beefheart
-applause-
-applause-
damn
damn
that’s more like it.
that’s more like it.
John Barth = Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Elizabeth Gilbert – Noah Jones (Mostly because almost every mom in the world like both of them)
John Barth = Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Elizabeth Gilbert – Noah Jones (Mostly because almost every mom in the world like both of them)
Cormac McCarthy = Johnny Cash
Cormac McCarthy = Johnny Cash
Elizabeth Gilbert = Alanis Morissette?
Elizabeth Gilbert = Alanis Morissette?
oops, that should have been Norah Jones.
oops, that should have been Norah Jones.
Thomas Pynchon = Buckethead
Thomas Pynchon = Buckethead
oh man… ha…. shots fired
oh man… ha…. shots fired
this is fun.
Pynchon = Mars Volta
Kathy Acker = Bikini Kill
Kerouac = Coltrane
Joy Williams = Rainer Maria
Don DeLillo = Swans
Borges = Tool
this is fun.
Pynchon = Mars Volta
Kathy Acker = Bikini Kill
Kerouac = Coltrane
Joy Williams = Rainer Maria
Don DeLillo = Swans
Borges = Tool
Don DeLillo = Eric Clapton
Don DeLillo = Eric Clapton
man, i hope pynchon is like mars volta, that would actually be alright with me. still haven’t been “pynchonized”
man, i hope pynchon is like mars volta, that would actually be alright with me. still haven’t been “pynchonized”
Junot Diaz = NaS
Junot Diaz = NaS
oh shit, well done! michiko says kanye, but she’s wrong. definitely Nasty Nas aka Nastrodamus.
oh shit, well done! michiko says kanye, but she’s wrong. definitely Nasty Nas aka Nastrodamus.
Are you claiming Diaz’s follow-up efforts to his first great book were wack?
Are you claiming Diaz’s follow-up efforts to his first great book were wack?
Ralph Ellison = My Bloody Valentine
no man, oscar wao is “illmatic,” drown is like his appearances on those other dude’s records prior to illmatic
wha?
Ralph Ellison = My Bloody Valentine
no man, oscar wao is “illmatic,” drown is like his appearances on those other dude’s records prior to illmatic
wha?
i’m ‘neutral’ re: Nas, fyi
i’m ‘neutral’ re: Nas, fyi
oh, okay
Anias Nin = My Bloody Valentine
oh, okay
Anias Nin = My Bloody Valentine
i’d say ralph ellison = jimi hendrix (4real)
i’d say ralph ellison = jimi hendrix (4real)
Made one awesome mammoth album/book then spent years and years on a follow-up writing thousands of pages/hours of music that never got released.
untouchable first album, virtuoso, loved by white ppl, career was too short, etc.
Made one awesome mammoth album/book then spent years and years on a follow-up writing thousands of pages/hours of music that never got released.
untouchable first album, virtuoso, loved by white ppl, career was too short, etc.
Henry Miller = Serge Gainsbourg?
Henry Miller = Serge Gainsbourg?
oh ok… not 2 familiar with the valentine (other than i’m ‘supposed’ to worship them).. gotcha
oh ok… not 2 familiar with the valentine (other than i’m ‘supposed’ to worship them).. gotcha
Kerouac= Coltrane= wrong
Kerouac= Coltrane= wrong
Joan Didion = Velvet Underground
James Kelman = The Fire Engines
Samuel Beckett = Mars
Thomas Bernhard = Neu
Bret Easton Ellis = The Frogs
Magnus Mills = The Fall
James Ellroy = The Birthday Party
Brian Evenson = 16 Horsepower
Viktor Pelevin = The Plastic People of the Universe
Gordon Lish = Skip Spence
Joan Didion = Velvet Underground
James Kelman = The Fire Engines
Samuel Beckett = Mars
Thomas Bernhard = Neu
Bret Easton Ellis = The Frogs
Magnus Mills = The Fall
James Ellroy = The Birthday Party
Brian Evenson = 16 Horsepower
Viktor Pelevin = The Plastic People of the Universe
Gordon Lish = Skip Spence
I think Samuel Beckett is a better candidate for aphex twin than DFW (via more ominous, more minimal, prettier)
I think Samuel Beckett is a better candidate for aphex twin than DFW (via more ominous, more minimal, prettier)
Bolano = Tupac in post-humous play.
Bolano = Tupac in post-humous play.
So who is the literary Wesley Willis then?
So who is the literary Wesley Willis then?
am amused by your poems ‘so far.’ cheers… also, nice ‘handle’ re: ‘shorty wanna be a thug’
am amused by your poems ‘so far.’ cheers… also, nice ‘handle’ re: ‘shorty wanna be a thug’
Tao Lin = Wesley Willis.
Tao Lin = Wesley Willis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DzkSgvt6UE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DzkSgvt6UE
HTMLGIANT = Beastie Boys?
HTMLGIANT = Beastie Boys?
George Saunders = The Flaming Lips
Sam Lipsyte = Jim O’Rourke
George Saunders = The Flaming Lips
Sam Lipsyte = Jim O’Rourke
If you keep this up long enough, Spin will print it next month.
Because of course of loads of fun.
If you keep this up long enough, Spin will print it next month.
Because of course of loads of fun.
Gordon Lish = Brian Eno
Gordon Lish = Brian Eno
Richard Brautigan = Jonathan Richman
Richard Brautigan = Jonathan Richman
yes
yes
i feel like i’m reading spin magazine right now
i feel like i’m reading spin magazine right now
Who is the Hootie and the Blowfish of literature?
Who is the Hootie and the Blowfish of literature?
actually this makes yr first comment sort of awesome, congratulations
actually this makes yr first comment sort of awesome, congratulations
and the satan.
and the satan.
Douglas coupland?
Douglas coupland?
stephanie meyer = celine dion
stephanie meyer = celine dion
ahaha. DFW is totally like ‘windowlicker’ !
ahaha. DFW is totally like ‘windowlicker’ !
Darius Rucker
Darius Rucker
Celine Dion, like her or hate her, actually has range, though. Stephanie Meyer can barely write a grammatically correct sentence.
Stephanie Meyer=Pat Boone
But there are so many more of us. If I say Wu-Tang, though, it’ll seem like bragging. What about Another Bad Creation?
dan brown = david hasselhoff?
Celine Dion, like her or hate her, actually has range, though. Stephanie Meyer can barely write a grammatically correct sentence.
Stephanie Meyer=Pat Boone
But there are so many more of us. If I say Wu-Tang, though, it’ll seem like bragging. What about Another Bad Creation?
dan brown = david hasselhoff?
laugh out loud
this post is sweet
stephanie meyer= miley cyrus
oh snap… yeah, i guess if one was wanting to compliment, then definitely wu-tang… beastie boys seems like… less of a compliment, maybe, although they were “there at the beginning of it all,” of course
Toni Morrison = Lauryn Hill?
Dennis Cooper – Guided by Voices.
laugh out loud
this post is sweet
stephanie meyer= miley cyrus
philip roth = bob dylan?
oh snap… yeah, i guess if one was wanting to compliment, then definitely wu-tang… beastie boys seems like… less of a compliment, maybe, although they were “there at the beginning of it all,” of course
Toni Morrison = Lauryn Hill?
Dennis Cooper – Guided by Voices.
philip roth = bob dylan?
Pynchon => The Residents
Gibson => Autechre ?
@catherine hah! though i’d be more inclined to conjecture thusly:
joyce carol oates = tori amos
margaret atwood = madonna
kathy acker = bjork
potboiler Thomas Pynchon = Pink Floyd or Godspeed You Black Emperor
massive tome Thomas Pynchon = Dmitri Shostakovitch
Pynchon => The Residents
Gibson => Autechre ?