what are you reading now?

[hmg]

The Unquiet Grave by Cyril Connolly — a collection of aphorisms and "mental explorations" — doesn't always work
Coming up for Air by George Orwell — pre-War nostalgia, 1930s Britain reads like 2020s Britain, but with more housebuilding
The Sun, novella by DH Lawrence — blonde gets naked, mates with the sun while convalescing in the Med

 

[version]

i do actually have a friend that decided to be a junkie after reading junkie.

Human Language: The Poetry of Michael Steven | Jacket2

jacket2.org

Think Will Self was another one.

 

[Murphy]

Listening to Patrick McCabe’s audio retelling of Pogue Mahone

I read it in my Dad’s voice initially late summer 2022 but McCabe is a Monaghan man and, though not a million miles from Belfast, he brings his own nuances and verbalised ticks right to the fore. Surprised he hasn’t done more voice work, in reflection

Not a book I wanted to go near again for another decade (save it, savour it) but audible kept spamming 99p for 3 months, so you pick your battles and the text remains majestically mesmeric

 

[jenks]

Listening to Patrick McCabe’s audio retelling of Pogue Mahone

I read it in my Dad’s voice initially late summer 2022 but McCabe is a Monaghan man and, though not a million miles from Belfast, he brings his own nuances and verbalised ticks right to the fore. Surprised he hasn’t done more voice work, in reflection

Not a book I wanted to go near again for another decade (save it, savour it) but audible kept spamming 99p for 3 months, so you pick your battles and the text remains majestically mesmeric

I think it’s the perfect way to read it - the cadences, the voices, it’s a bravura performance. I helped crowdfund his new one that’s coming out via Unbound again - I still find it a mystery that it didn’t get any real traction - not even a sniff of a prize like the Goldsmiths.

 

[dilbert1]

@luka have you read this one? Authored by a man highly cultured, who hailed European art and literature as vastly superior to that of his own “most benighted, medieval and shamefully backward of Asian countries.” Historians also note his displays of kindness toward children.

 

[luka]

i cant wait to start it

 

[IdleRich]

Just read a book called Closer by Dennis Cooper, never read him before. Kinda gay punk stuff, loads of vignettes described by various members of a loose group of teenagers, taking drugs and fucking and beating each other up, eating shit that kind of thing. I enjoyed it a lot. Dunno why I never read him before, I guess he's pretty famous.

 

[Clinamenic]

IRS Form 990, straight fire:

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f990.pdf

 

[kid charlemagne]

finished junky. the guy was a gay junky

 

[kid charlemagne]

pick what book i should read next.
white album - didion
mrs dalloway - woolf
the new york trilogy - auster
are snakes necesary - de palma
falling man - delillo
in danger - paolini
in dreams begin responsibilites - schwartz
gnosticism - walker
absolm absolm - faulkner
zeroville - erickson
recognitions - gaddis
billy the kid collection - ondaatje
dubliners - joyce
songs of innocence and experience - blake
farewell my lovely - blake

 

[Murphy]

Strong Versioncore

 

[luka]

terrible list to have to choose from. are those the only books your local library has in?

 

[...]

terrible list to have to choose from. are those the only books your local library has in?

You've only read about 4 of them!

 

[luka]

why would i read those terrible books?

 

[...]

You might love one of them and then you can make fun of people who haven't read it.

 

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in dreams begin responsibilites - schwartz

Read this and then listen to Episode 2 of this:

Ruth Wisse Teaches The New York Intellectuals

Episode 1: “Attention Was Paid” — An Overview The New York Intellectuals were singularly dedicated to rigorous learning and excellence in literature and the arts. As Professor Wisse shows, their constant need to think and rethink—especially about the competing ideas of Communism and Judaism...

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[jenks]

Just finished Light in August so i would recommend any and all Faulkner

 

[version]

pick what book i should read next.
white album - didion
mrs dalloway - woolf
the new york trilogy - auster
are snakes necesary - de palma
falling man - delillo
in danger - paolini
in dreams begin responsibilites - schwartz
gnosticism - walker
absolm absolm - faulkner
zeroville - erickson
recognitions - gaddis
billy the kid collection - ondaatje
dubliners - joyce
songs of innocence and experience - blake
farewell my lovely - chandler

I'm reading Farewell, My Lovely at the moment and it's good, so I'll say Farewell, My Lovely. The Joyce, Didion and Pasolini are good too.

 

[luka]

sort of books GQ magazine would recommend you accessorize with.

 

[Ian Scuffling]

sort of books GQ magazine would recommend you accessorize with.

What sort of books do you read? Out of curiosity