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One day, Seth will be back.
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How reading 5 pages of a novel before going to sleep feels
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Stately plump Buck Mulligan rode in a golf cart fatly
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You have tweeted 116k times. No offense but you definitely have time to read for pleasure
I am a professional author. I've been published in the NYT, Boston Globe, Esquire and more. I've co-written a national best-selling book (USA Today rankings) and I don't read for pleasure. I have a full-time editorial job, book promo/support, three kids, a dog & a mortgage.
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If you know of a publisher (or industry person) interested in a ~100k fictional novel following an insane freelance writer covering the Ukraine war, from the safety of America and an all-inclusive resort in Jamaica, with frequent stops in DC (center of power), the literary scene in New York (center of bullshit), as the Wartime Author tries to get a hold of his life, cover a war, find his ex-wife, locate the more famous writer he’s jealous of, all while being chased by spies and private investigators in a bawdy tomb of our times - Please do get in touch.
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This is quite good.
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I really hate it when people brag about how many books they’ve read in a year. That’s why I stopped counting after I got to seventy-five.
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Replying to @damiankelleher
consider this: read as much as you can while enjoying your life. There’s no prize for rushing through these; it’s like rushing through a glorious meal.
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FOR LK In this translation you will look in vain for a full-stop, Stops are there, but hard to find. Keep searching. Oh look, there is one! He must have taken breath. Time can stand still for the blink of a whale's eye. Then the whale goes down, spouting as it dives.
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How my Krasznahorkai books look at me from my shelf.
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Translators should be eligible for the Nobel Prize. Without them huge swathes of literature would be unavailable to us. Translators are writers too, minus the ego :)
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I think people simply used to be more resilient readers: if they saw a word or allusion they didn’t understand they just brushed it off or trusted their gut instinct, & kept going. Whereas now they panic.
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My book BACKWARDNESS is still orderable in the USA from Elizabeth Ellen’s SF/LD Books, but a Calamari Archive edition (comprising the full text of the original, supplemented with some new content) is now available worldwide on Amazon, as well as from Asterism.
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Jon Fosse translating Gerald Murnane. A book I swore I dreamt up, but it’s real
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Reading Vollmann is a great way to remind yourself that your own quiet, personal despair is actually very boring and un-researched compared to the despair of others.
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I'm so cooked I thought this was a NYRB cover...
helping my mom clean out my grandmas apartment and found this lmao
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Hello! Good morning to literature-lovers worldwide! We are thrilled to announce that we have partnered with the University of Rochester, and we welcome @open_letter as the newest member of the Deep Vellum family. More info available from @PublishersWkly publishersweekly.com/pw/by-t…
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the girls are fighting… (online literary men in their mid 30s)
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Finally finished unpacking all my books and ordering them alphabetically… so now’s a perfect time to post photos! First up is my PhD shelf, containing all the authors I’m writing about + some important theory
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