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The shorter novels I read while finishing a longer novel are “my goomars”

Happy Father’s Day from William Faulkner

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Denis Johnson

I think my initial interest in long sentences, maximalist fictions, “the avant-garde”, etc., grew from an attempt to outpace my essentially bourgeois soul. An “I’ll show *you*” aimed squarely at myself.

Custom shelving finished. Find me in the library most nights.

In possession of the asset

Dialogue in "Jesus' Son" is really something. An odd, glittering word is always exploding the compression of a desperate conversation. Yearning obscured by impulse. The experience of God as a violent reversal: someone dead and someone else lucky. A cosmic, hardboiled poetics.

Tawada’s first collection of essays in English. (June, New Directions)

I’d like to write something about his work eventually.

I wrote about Mathias Énard’s “The Deserters” (trans. Charlotte Mandell) for the New York Times Book Review. (Link below)

A climate disaster novel written over a century ago: “Into the Sun” by Swiss-French novelist C.F. Ramuz (July, New Directions)

New Fosse coming in October: VAIM, the first in a trilogy of novels set in a remote Norwegian fishing village.

Working on a new essay.

Working on three reviews: Laura Vazquez's "The Endless Week" Michael Lentz's "Schattenfroh" Adolfo Bioy Casares's "Borges"