February 3rd, 2010 / 8:20 pm
Author News & Snippets

24 Comments

  1. Christopher Higgs

      Can’t wait to read the posthumous Sorrentino! Thanks for posting about this!

  2. Christopher Higgs

      Can’t wait to read the posthumous Sorrentino! Thanks for posting about this!

  3. Lily Hoang

      I’ve been reading Sorrentino (older Sorrentino), been planning a big post on him, but you beat me to it!

  4. Lily Hoang

      I’ve been reading Sorrentino (older Sorrentino), been planning a big post on him, but you beat me to it!

  5. Christopher Higgs

      You should still do your big post, Lily! We need more conversation about Sorrentino’s amazing work.

  6. Christopher Higgs

      You should still do your big post, Lily! We need more conversation about Sorrentino’s amazing work.

  7. Patrick deWitt

      I’m reading Little Casino right now. It’s just great. I’d never read him before, but John Domini’s Sorrentino article convinced me to give him a whirl, and I’m really glad I did.

  8. Patrick deWitt

      I’m reading Little Casino right now. It’s just great. I’d never read him before, but John Domini’s Sorrentino article convinced me to give him a whirl, and I’m really glad I did.

  9. stephen

      Sorrentino is a great writer, very creative, great prose, but his incessant, bitter misanthropy dismays me. I understand being very jaded about “creative types” and publishing, but I don’t understand giving up on humanity and life.

  10. stephen

      Sorrentino is a great writer, very creative, great prose, but his incessant, bitter misanthropy dismays me. I understand being very jaded about “creative types” and publishing, but I don’t understand giving up on humanity and life.

  11. Matthew Simmons

      Agreed. Please a long Sorrentino post.

  12. Matthew Simmons

      I started on, and really enjoyed, Lunar Follies.

  13. Matthew Simmons

      Agreed. Please a long Sorrentino post.

  14. Matthew Simmons

      I started on, and really enjoyed, Lunar Follies.

  15. Jeff Bursey

      Nice to see Sorrentino being discussed; I’ve been a fan since reading _The Moon in Its Flight_, a great collection of short pieces. _Lunar Follies_ is just great, as is _Red the Fiend_ (for entirely different reasons). In April – and sorry for this partial self-plug – _The Literary Review_ will publish my review-essay on _The Abyss of Human Illusion_, in case you’re interested, Matthew.

      Jeff

  16. Jeff Bursey

      Nice to see Sorrentino being discussed; I’ve been a fan since reading _The Moon in Its Flight_, a great collection of short pieces. _Lunar Follies_ is just great, as is _Red the Fiend_ (for entirely different reasons). In April – and sorry for this partial self-plug – _The Literary Review_ will publish my review-essay on _The Abyss of Human Illusion_, in case you’re interested, Matthew.

      Jeff

  17. John Domini

      For what it’s worth, I recently finished a still longer Sorrentino article-essay for an anthology, & so I’d be especially interested in anything Lily Hoang had to say. Oh & Jeff Bursey, I’ll look for your review.

  18. John Domini

      For what it’s worth, I recently finished a still longer Sorrentino article-essay for an anthology, & so I’d be especially interested in anything Lily Hoang had to say. Oh & Jeff Bursey, I’ll look for your review.

  19. Jeff Bursey

      I’m seconding (thirding?) reading more on Sorrentino, by Lily Hoang, John Domini, and anyone else.

      When _Books in Canada_ was still publishing I wrote reviews of _The Moon in Its Flight_, _Lunar Follies_ and _A Strange Commonplace_. You can see them here —

      http://www.jeffbursey.com/indexreviews.php

      — if you scroll down to _Books in Canada_, and then look for May/June 2006 (LF and ASC) and June/July 2004 (MIIF), if anyone’s interested.

  20. Jeff Bursey

      I’m seconding (thirding?) reading more on Sorrentino, by Lily Hoang, John Domini, and anyone else.

      When _Books in Canada_ was still publishing I wrote reviews of _The Moon in Its Flight_, _Lunar Follies_ and _A Strange Commonplace_. You can see them here —

      http://www.jeffbursey.com/indexreviews.php

      — if you scroll down to _Books in Canada_, and then look for May/June 2006 (LF and ASC) and June/July 2004 (MIIF), if anyone’s interested.

  21. John Domini

      Jeff, at last I caught up w/ a couple of those Sorrentino reviews. The LUNAR FOLLIES in particular impressed me: you got the laughing & slashing just right.

  22. John Domini

      Jeff, at last I caught up w/ a couple of those Sorrentino reviews. The LUNAR FOLLIES in particular impressed me: you got the laughing & slashing just right.

  23. Jeff

      John, thanks for those comments – I just got caught up with your blog. And my review of _Abyss_ is now out in _Literary Review_ (spring issue).

      Jeff

  24. Jeff

      John, thanks for those comments – I just got caught up with your blog. And my review of _Abyss_ is now out in _Literary Review_ (spring issue).

      Jeff