paul secor Posted March 10, 2018 Report Share Posted March 10, 2018 4 hours ago, Joe said: I think DEM might still be available via Coffee House... https://coffeehousepress.org/products/dem Didn't know that. Thanks, Joe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HutchFan Posted March 15, 2018 Report Share Posted March 15, 2018 Finally got around to reading this. It's every bit as good as they say. The best line in the book: "There is no trap so deadly as the trap that you set for yourself." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted March 17, 2018 Report Share Posted March 17, 2018 I've moved things around a bit. Still reading some of the stories in Tolstaya's White Walls but my main reading is Gaskell's Wives and Daughters. It's essentially the story of how a middle aged doctor's second marriage impacts his daughter and step-daughter. It's pretty slow, even for Victorian era fiction. I like it better than Middlemarch, but that's not exactly a ringing endorsement. After this Toews's A Complicated Kindness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HutchFan Posted March 17, 2018 Report Share Posted March 17, 2018 Richard Ford - Independence Day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted March 17, 2018 Report Share Posted March 17, 2018 2 hours ago, HutchFan said: Richard Ford - Independence Day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 Wrapped up Wives and Daughters. Did feel padded in many places. Overall, I preferred North and South. In the midst of Malamud's The Assistant. Fairly depressing. Will probably wrap up tonight or tomorrow. Then onto Toews's A Complicated Kindness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 Chloe Benjamin: The Immortalists Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 1 hour ago, jlhoots said: Chloe Benjamin: The Immortalists Let us know how it is. I have it on request at the library, but probably won't get the book until the fall... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 11 hours ago, ejp626 said: Let us know how it is. I have it on request at the library, but probably won't get the book until the fall... I thought it was excellent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted March 29, 2018 Report Share Posted March 29, 2018 10 hours ago, jlhoots said: I thought it was excellent. Thanks. Something to look forward to. The Assistant was interesting, but it probably should have been called Crime and Suffering. It's definitely a book with a bleak outlook on life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted March 29, 2018 Report Share Posted March 29, 2018 I am almost halfway to reading 10 Russian novels to read before you die.  http://offtheshelf.com/2014/10/10-russian-novels-to-read-before-you-die/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted March 31, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2018 On 3/7/2018 at 2:11 PM, paul secor said: William Melvin Kelley: A Different Drummer That recent New Yorker article about Kelley was fascinating—I had never heard of him before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted March 31, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2018 Also spending the afternoon perusing this beautifully-documented book, though it’s photographic in nature: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted March 31, 2018 Report Share Posted March 31, 2018 13 minutes ago, ghost of miles said: Also spending the afternoon perusing this beautifully-documented book, though it’s photographic in nature: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted March 31, 2018 Report Share Posted March 31, 2018 6 hours ago, ghost of miles said:  "The White Negro" essay had quite an impact on us would-be hipsters of the era. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted March 31, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2018 56 minutes ago, BillF said: "The White Negro" essay had quite an impact on us would-be hipsters of the era. Yes! My friend Phil Ford wrote about that essay at length in his book Dig. I emailed Library of America to ask if a possible "prequel" was in the works (such as 1948-59, incorporating The Naked And The Dead, Barbary Shore, The Deer Park, and Advertisements For Myself) to the two-volume Mailer 1960s set they just published, but they replied that they can't get rights to any of his other books right now.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted April 1, 2018 Report Share Posted April 1, 2018 On ‎3‎/‎31‎/‎2018 at 10:35 AM, ghost of miles said:  That recent New Yorker article about Kelley was fascinating—I had never heard of him before. Yes. the article was fascinating, and Kelley was a very fine writer - at least that's my take after reading his first book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted April 7, 2018 Report Share Posted April 7, 2018 More stories to go in White Walls by Tatyana Tolstaya. Right now am focusing on shorter works. Just finished Ethel Wilson's first novel (or really novella): Hetty Dorval. Then Lyudmila Ulitskaya's The Funeral Party (from Brad's list of 10 Russian novels, bringing me to 5/10). Also DeLillo's The Body Artist. Then Pablo Vierci's The Imposters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted April 7, 2018 Report Share Posted April 7, 2018 Mary Morris: The Jazz Palace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jlhoots Posted April 8, 2018 Report Share Posted April 8, 2018 Colson Whitehead: Underground Railroad  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted April 8, 2018 Report Share Posted April 8, 2018 41 minutes ago, jlhoots said: Colson Whitehead: Underground Railroad  I haven't gotten around to this one yet.  Have you read Lincoln in the Bardo? An unusual book but one I like a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Bresnahan Posted April 8, 2018 Report Share Posted April 8, 2018 Horace Silver's autobiography, "Let's Get To The Nitty Gritty". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted April 8, 2018 Report Share Posted April 8, 2018 1 hour ago, Kevin Bresnahan said: Horace Silver's autobiography, "Let's Get To The Nitty Gritty". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted April 8, 2018 Report Share Posted April 8, 2018 3 hours ago, Brad said: I haven't gotten around to this one yet.  Have you read Lincoln in the Bardo? An unusual book but one I like a lot. Haven't read Lincoln In The Bardo. For some reason a few of the reviews scared me off. I'll reconsider. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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