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1. Reading includes Brett Elizabeth Jenkins (poetry here) and Christopher Newgent (genius) in Indianapolis. Friday, July 23rd, 7:30, Calvin Fletcher Coffee Co. While In Indy, you could drop by Kurt Vonnegut’s house (his baby hand print in the concrete of the steps) or not. And so it goes.
17. This new Adam Langer book/satire (review, review) looks pretty dern interesting and getting buzz for shots at mainstream publishers.
3. Does anyone else read two books at once? Has worked for me lately, and glows best if the two books are vastly different (i.e. I am now reading David Shields death book and Harrison’s desperate prose poem letters to Yesenin). I weave them, usually chapter/chapter and it stays fresh and maybe the compliment/contrast in my brain and also so far the Harrison book is kicking Mr. Shield’s ass.
23. Fuck twitter.
Tags: Adam Langer, Brett Elizabeth Jenkins, Christopher Newgent, David Shields, Harvey Pekar, Jim Harrison, Kurt Vonnegut
“… so far the Harrison book is kicking Mr. Shield’s ass.”
Damn straight.
I normally read like five books at once, which means that it sometimes takes me forever to finish, or prevents me from finishing some.
Also, does it count if you reread other bits (stories, poems) while you are reading something all the way through?
Normally I only read one at a time, but lately I’ve been all over the place. It’s especially nice to read a mammoth of a book at the same time as a collection of short stories or a shorter novel so that you don’t burn yourself out on one voice, or at least that’s what I’m learning right now anyway for myself.
4-5 simultaneously, usually work that associates on some paradigmatic level.
currently Roubaud’s The Great Fire of London >> Perec’s Species of Spaces >> Lem’s A Perfect Vacuum >> Sterne’s Tristram Shandy.
i also try to read a poem every time i smoke. today’s smoking poems courtesy of Stephen Ratcliffe’s Sculpture. wow. does that make me a douchebag. yes.
i usually read at least three at once. if i feel like finishing one i do. if i feel like switching back and forth i do. if i feel like baking one and soaking the other in vinegar i do. sandwiches are forever. like a model plane at a kite festival, it’s easier to see how graceful the kites are, how powerful the plane. twitter is a sock.
thanks for mentioning the reading, sean. think you’re going to be able to make it down?
“… so far the Harrison book is kicking Mr. Shield’s ass.”
Damn straight.
I normally read like five books at once, which means that it sometimes takes me forever to finish, or prevents me from finishing some.
Also, does it count if you reread other bits (stories, poems) while you are reading something all the way through?
Some version of me.
You 4,5 at once people are killing me. Fuck.
Normally I only read one at a time, but lately I’ve been all over the place. It’s especially nice to read a mammoth of a book at the same time as a collection of short stories or a shorter novel so that you don’t burn yourself out on one voice, or at least that’s what I’m learning right now anyway for myself.
4-5 simultaneously, usually work that associates on some paradigmatic level.
currently Roubaud’s The Great Fire of London >> Perec’s Species of Spaces >> Lem’s A Perfect Vacuum >> Sterne’s Tristram Shandy.
i also try to read a poem every time i smoke. today’s smoking poems courtesy of Stephen Ratcliffe’s Sculpture. wow. does that make me a douchebag. yes.
i usually read at least three at once. if i feel like finishing one i do. if i feel like switching back and forth i do. if i feel like baking one and soaking the other in vinegar i do. sandwiches are forever. like a model plane at a kite festival, it’s easier to see how graceful the kites are, how powerful the plane. twitter is a sock.
thanks for mentioning the reading, sean. think you’re going to be able to make it down?
I like that Shields book.
David seems unnecessarily polarizing.
Awesome. Roxane mentioned she’s going to try to make it as well. Should be a good time.
I can’t read any more than 3 books at a time, and usually if I’m reading 3, one of them is a journal.
Some version of me.
You 4,5 at once people are killing me. Fuck.
The Yesenin book is Harrison’s best by far. Definitely desperation, which I really get into.
I like that Shields book.
David seems unnecessarily polarizing.
Awesome. Roxane mentioned she’s going to try to make it as well. Should be a good time.
I can’t read any more than 3 books at a time, and usually if I’m reading 3, one of them is a journal.
The Yesenin book is Harrison’s best by far. Definitely desperation, which I really get into.
I usually read 20 or more books at once. Messy but fertile.
i don’t think it implies anything more than succumbing to a clinically short attention span.
I usually read 20 or more books at once. Messy but fertile.
i don’t think it implies anything more than succumbing to a clinically short attention span.
God bless Harvey Pekar. Even dead, he puts a smile on my face.
God bless Harvey Pekar. Even dead, he puts a smile on my face.
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