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Catalogued as high modernist for expediency’s sake. AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS ( @dalkey_archive ) APHASIA ( @fsgbooks ) REVOLUTIONARIES TRY AGAIN ( @Coffee_House_ ).

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An incredible review of AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS in NY Times By Gina Apostol “Reminds us surrealism also had a social ethos, to destabilize ruinous order through art. Similarly this is what AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS offers: the art-polemic as a defiant befitting medium for our dire times”
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Hi, BookTok researcher here - TikTok readers have helped usher in some of the best post-post-modernist publishing sales years in recent memory. I know it doesn’t fit with social media moral panic narratives to attribute an increase in youth reading to social media but here we are
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The end of the world.
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Americans should stop teaching Catcher in the Rye & Slaughterhouse 5 in high school so when they read them as adults they can see they’re both fine novels.
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What's a book that is a red flag for you if you're on a date and someone says it's their favorite? For me it's Catcher in the Rye.
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Bought this one because I liked its first page. Never heard of it. Anyone read it?
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Since I live in San Francisco & I’m surrounded by tech retrogrades who hold Gallagher’s asinine view I’ve had to explain this over & over: If you think of your mind as a landscape Non-fiction populates it with information Whereas literature widens the size of the landscape
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Ever since I decided to try to be a novelist I’ve dreamt of belonging to the @Dalkey_Archive catalog From now until Dalkey publishes AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS, my 3rd novel, in 02/24 I’ll be posting my favorite Dalkey titles Starting with 1 of the most influential American novels 🥳
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I would subscribe to a magazine that mostly reviews books by @Dalkey_Archive @DeepVellum @open_letter @transitbooks @_contramundum_ @NewDirections @DeepVellum @sublunaryeds @DorothyProject @archipelagobks @biblioasis Instead of mostly the books already covered everywhere else
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James reminded me this books exists and I have it and apparently I’ve read it because I underlined it 😆
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I am stumbling around the 7 Stories backlist and losing my mind a little bit!! What the fuck do you mean we have a “conversations with WG Sebald” book that nobody has ever heard of? We publish TWELVE books by Ariel Dorfman??
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I bought some books I shouldn’t have at Lamplight Books in Seattle 😵‍💫
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Varieties of compelling literature from authors born in Mexico. [sample]
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Nah 🇺🇸
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it really is difficult being someone who loves books in the current literary landscape
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Throwback to 2013 when I was briefly a reader for @NewDirections and I was paid in books
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Part of what Bolaño was getting at is you can’t on the one hand disparage the newspaper of record for its unconscionable propagandistic campaigns And on the other hand attend their parties and hope to be selected as part of their 10 Best Books Or you can, obviously
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Being a novelist is great* But have you tried being a novelist who finds their first novel warmly autographed to a “friend” at their neighborhood used bookstore?
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In the early days, there used to be a website called The Modern World that contained all things modernism across literature & music 🥹
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our children will never believe that there were once good websites
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I often mock contemporary American fiction for being boring & provincial but here’s a small sample of stellar contemporary American novels that aren’t either (missing THE ORGANS OF SENSE by Adam Ehrlich Sachs from the photo because I can’t find my copy!)
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When I started wanting to write fiction — when I had no idea what that meant for me — I found solace & encouragement in the wonderfully parenthetical novels of Javier Marias.
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Happy birthday Roberto Bolaño if only you would have been here to impugn my ranking of your wonderful fictions 1) By Night in Chile 2) The middle chapter of Savage Detectives 3) Amulet 4) 2666 5) Distant Star
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Hoping László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel so I can post self-satisfied photos of my Laszlo collection AND be categorized as a “sad young man.”
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Not a fan of dunking on American writers just because they got an MFA But it’s hilarious to see them post their favorite books of 2023 Which are mostly comprised of novels by American MFA teachers & writers
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Hi. Dalkey author here. If an editor recognizes a book as brilliant, and they turn it down because they can’t figure out how to sell it, isn’t that an abdication of their role? If big publishers can sell crap like American Dirt, why can’t they figure out how to sell Markson?
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And the thing is, the editors who turned this down weren't wrong! Sometimes you admire a book but don't love it, sometimes you recognize it's brilliant but can't figure how you'd sell it. That means you're not the right editor for this work. Or yours is not the right house. 2/2
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AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS my 3rd novel is now available for pre-order from the @Dalkey_Archive site Pub date 02/27/24 Cover by Leonora Carrington (who appears in the novel as a talking car)
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Since Adam Ehrlich Sachs is not on Twitter I will remind everyone that he wrote a fantastic novel about a blind astronomer who rightly predicts an eclipse 🌞
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A brief collection of 2014 agent rejections for THE REVOLUTIONARIES TRY AGAIN My first novel Which was published by Coffee House Press in 2016
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Not enough has been written about how in many of Thomas Bernhard’s novels the narrator is angrily mourning the death of a loved one? ☹️
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I love boxsets. Will buy them even if I already have other editions. Today this boxset reminded me I haven’t read Invisible Cities. 😮
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My reading preferences are so narrow: I rarely enjoy short unmusical sentences Anyway here’s what I’ve enjoyed the most in 2023 - WALL by Jen Craig - MILD VERTIGO by Kanai - HISTORY OF MONEY by Alan Pauls - SPADEWORK FOR A PALACE by Krasznahorkai - LONGCUT by @emilyhallnyc
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Ricardo Piglia mentioned this Handke book admiringly in his 1970s diaries. Let’s see how it goes.
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I heard you guys like sincerity, so here goes: Ever since I decided to try to write novels I’ve dreamed of being published by @Dalkey_Archive Today my dream finally came true: AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS is out today 🥹
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American Abductions

By Mauro Javier Cárdenas ISBN: 9781628975185 Publication Date:  5/7/2024 Description Torrential and dreamlike, Mauro Javier Cárdenas’ novel unfurls into a layered, poignant, and unflinching portrait...

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Ever since I decided to try to be a novelist I’ve dreamt of belonging to the @Dalkey_Archive catalog From now until Dalkey publishes AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS, my 3rd novel, in 02/24 I’ll be posting my favorite Dalkey titles Starting with 1 of the most influential American novels 🥳
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David Markson is widely read amongst the approximately 499 people who read literature in USA 🥰
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The novels of David Markson, who briefly before he died had a Twitter account, - it saddens me to think they go unread, they will one day be forgotten.
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I grew up reading Mafalda. I tried to explain to my daughters why I sometimes murmur “su lechuguita” and chuckle but the joke isn’t funny when I try to explain it. 😆
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Physical descriptions of characters are unnecessary because readers will imagine the physical characteristics of the characters whichever way they want anyway
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Can we please retire the descriptor “aquiline nose”. This is probably my own personal cliche pet peeve.
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Wait a minute SOLENOID by Cartarescu was not nominated for the National Book Award?? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Last week someone posted that they found solace in reading Bernhard after the death of their mother And I was reminded again about how much grief courses through his novels
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Not enough has been written about how in many of Thomas Bernhard’s novels the narrator is angrily mourning the death of a loved one? ☹️
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Piglia used to say that writers push their own canons so that their works can be put in the right context My list of Great American fiction: Stories in the Worst Way A Naked Singularity I AM NOT SIDNEY POITIER A Questionable Shape Inherent Disorders Ducks, Newburyport Longcut
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For @PublishersWkly , I talk with @nickhilden about Leonora Carrington Her retrospective in Mexico City, her debutante hyena, her intercontinental generative powers, and her influence on AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS, my 3rd novel 🥰
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Used Beckett boxset available at Dog Eared on Valencia and 20th in San Francisco (I already have it 😭)
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Once upon a time I met Charles Baxter, who had a lot to say about the long digressive sentence in USA, recommended an Italian writer I hadn’t heard of, & asked for a Latin American novel rec, which he ordered on the spot. I’ve read and enjoyed every one of his essay collections
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One of you posted about this Remedios Varo / Science Fictions book so I ordered it Here’s its taxonomy of techniques
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Given what I’ve gleaned about your taste in books: - Mirror by Tarkovsky - La Ciénaga by Martel - Persona by Bergman - The Cremator by Herz - Yi Yi by Edward Yang - Cleo from 9 to 5 by Varda - Mikey and Nicky by May - Taste of Cherry by Kierastami - Jeanne Dilman by Akerman
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I want to start watching Good Movies. I have zero knowledge of cinema. Please recommend
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36 chapters, each of them one sentence long. A shapeshifting, Virginia Woolf-ish barrage. Nationalism and surveillance hang heavy over the whole thing, examining the long shadow of 20th Century American interventionism, and our new tech panopticon. All in under 250 pages!
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I’ve heard some of you with full time office jobs have found the following stats helpful, so sharing them more widely: If you write 1.5 hours a day 5 days a week You will accumulate ~100 pages a year Which can add up to 1 novel every 2-3 years
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Evening reading THE AGE OF SKIN by Dubravka Ugresic Which says of Isaac Babel “Nobody in the history of literature was capable of capturing the entire universe on a mere five pages of text”
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AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS my 3rd novel 2/27/24 @Dalkey_Archive 🇺🇸 3/7/24 @OneworldNews 🇬🇧 Is it for you? First page test below. 🧮 Preorder from @BrazosBookstore
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Just because a novelist swears he wasn’t influenced by W.G Sebald doesn’t mean the novelist wasn’t influenced by W.G. Sebald
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Saw Labyrinth by Leonora Carrington at her retrospective in Mexico City with @heraclesmigato And now it’s on the cover of AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS, my 3rd novel, which contains A talking car called Leonora Carrington A dream interpreter named after her best friend Remedios Varo
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@IneluctableQuak Arno Schmidt said only 400 readers would be able to understand Bottom’s Dream. Proof that deep down he was an optimist.
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Did you know some of your favorite writers were published by the same editor, Jeremy Davies? I’m sure one day someone will write about it. Meanwhile here’s a partial Davies list from my shelves: - Gerald Murnane - Edouard Levé - Pola Oloixarac - Pierre Senges - Anne Boyer -👇🏽
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Almost summertime in San Francisco 🌞
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Mary Gaitskill reading this unforgettable story 💔
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Mary Gaitskill reads Vladimir Nabokov
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Nabokov’s saddest story — and one of the greatest things he ever wrote. ‘Signs and Symbols’ (1948) is quiet, understated, devastating: six pages of prose that, once read, will never leave your soul alone.
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I’ve been thinking about how long it has taken some of my favorite novelists — Cartarescu, Krasznahorkai, Murnane — to catch on in the United States. According to my calculations: 18, 12, and 33 years respectively. 😵
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People are always like nobody reads anymore, death of the novel, etc. but last night @ThirdPlaceBooks 3 high school students hauled a bounty of Rikki Ducornet books to get them signed and one of them was so overcome by emotion she cried & cried 🥹
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Just had a great Zoom chat with two comparative literature students in Vienna about APHASIA, my 2nd novel. It was for a class on postmodernism & Thomas Bernhard. Here’s the list of books for that class. I’ve only red 7 of these!
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Didn’t know about Bruno Schulz’s drawings.
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My (still nascent) research shelf for my (still nascent) novel #5 tentatively titled ANYTHING YOUR IMAGINATION CAN CONJURE Which is what Nixon told his staff during a meeting on how to destroy Chile
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Okay let’s do this! Crowdsourcing an experimental fiction class As a start, out of my own preferences
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@IneluctableQuak I’d love your thoughts and @anthgarrett on what you think might help /be essential. It really comes out of wanting students to get exposure to something unfamiliar and not immediately resisting it. Not sure if it would be chronological or not. The Waves. Septology. Barthelme.
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ME: I wrote a novel structured as an oral history of American deportations in which the Latin American interviewees refuse to perform the expectations Americans have of them. AMERICAN EDITORS: These oral histories don’t meet our expectations. ME: You don’t say. 😅
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My 2024 wish is that the guy who edited all these great books become editor-in-chief at Coffee House Press 🌟
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Did you know some of your favorite writers were published by the same editor, Jeremy Davies? I’m sure one day someone will write about it. Meanwhile here’s a partial Davies list from my shelves: - Gerald Murnane - Edouard Levé - Pola Oloixarac - Pierre Senges - Anne Boyer -👇🏽
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Sent novel #4 to my agent today 🥳 It’s the last novel focused on the Czech / Colombian family of #2 & #3 It’s the most essayistic of my novels — with chapters on Mezzanine, Taryn Simon, Process Pieces — which also contains the longest sentence I’ve ever written (100 pages)
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You mean to tell me the writer on the left panned the writer on the right? HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHHHAAAAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
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Sorry I haven’t returned your call I’ve been busy bookshelving. 🥳
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Creative Writing Exercises: (1) Write a story that could be interpreted as propaganda. Avoid overt political themes. (2) Research why the CIA funded our writing program. Write a story that would have pleased the CIA.
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Amused to see that a person who translated a Kpop book & will publish his debut novel with Harpers has “literary” opinions about a small independent press that publishes experimental literature
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The closest to a page turner I’ve read recently: IN THE FREUD ARCHIVES by Janet Malcolm
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I wonder if there’s 3 types of purges a writer needs to make: 1) Readymade phrases of the culture 2) Too direct literary influences 3) Readymade views about reality (lifelong project)
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had never thought of the process as a way of working thru inherited phrases before. i think this is right tho. its part of why early writing feels so…generic. we are working our way toward a deeper more personal sense of language.
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Glad to see Donald Barthelme in the timeline thanks to @MrHWM . Is there a book of literary criticism on his stories? I don’t think I’ve ever encountered any. Would love to see a typology of his stories, too.
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Every few years or months I post Brian Evenson’s essay on Doing Without Which discusses most of the fiction I prefer (minimal or no setting, minimal or no metaphor, minimal or no engaging of all five senses)
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ME: My author copies of AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS arrived today! MY KIDS: Como se dice make me a sandwich.
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Found these 3 prominently displayed at my local bookstore ABOUT UNCLE by Rebecca Gisler translated by Jordan Stump VERDIGRIS by Michele Mari translated by @BrianRobMoore A VERY ORIGINAL DINNER by Pessoa edited by Natalia Jerez Quintero
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3 years
To *celebrate* the paperback release of my 2nd novel I bought the newest one by Laszlo Krasznahorkai. 👻
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Jelinek adapted Lost Highway by David Lynch as an opera??? And you guys didn’t tell me???
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5 months
Someone pay me $1,000 to argue DISTANT STAR is Bolaño’s best novel 😬
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A sizable portion of the so-called publishing ecosystem is hostile and / or indifferent to the experimental / high modernist / antirealist novels some of us like to read. It’s up to us to contribute to our own ecosystem if we want to continue to read the novels we like to read.
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“Fun” facts about AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS, my 3rd novel Every sentence >= 1,000 words Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Amparo Dávila, & Auxilio Lacouture interpret your dreams Only autobiographical element is my oldest did draw this fort from AUSTERLITZ
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3 months
Stopped by my neighborhood’s bookstore during lunch today. 💫
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5 months
Ricardo Piglia also mentioned this Lukács admiringly in his 1970s diaries. Even went as far as saying most theories of the novel afterwards were a reformulation of Lukács? Let’s see how it goes. 😋
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On your deathbed you’re not going to remember you won a book award you’re going to remember you wrote the wild books you wanted to write
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6 months
If you want to give yourself and / or others the gift of 21st century Latin American literature in translation here’s my list @Bookshop_Org Featuring @MonaOjedaF @carmenboullosa @criveragarza @poliamida @mobymartin @NonaFernandez @lilianacolanzi
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I feel like congratulating so many for Jon Fosse’s Nobel My publisher @Dalkey_Archive who lives for this type of literature @transitbooks who astonished us by bringing us SEPTOLOGY @mervatim & @ddillingworth for championing him as literary critics His translators!!! 💕
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Hoping António Lobo Antunes wins the Nobel tomorrow so I can post self-satisfied photos of my Antunes collection.
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Father dropping off child at writing school. - Don’t imitate Fosse - I don’t even believe in candles, dad - Little bit of Bernhard is fine but - But not too much, I know - Woolf’s fine, too - Nobody will notice - Promise me though - Not this again - Promise me! - NO ERNAUX!
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So you want to have literary taste but don’t want to read 100 novels? No problem! Here’s how you do it: HAHAHA THERE IS NO SHORTCUT STOP TWEETING AND GO READ LOL
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Love seeing everyone’s four so here’s my four
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@Unwise_Trousers
Caustic Cover Critic
@Unwise_Trousers
9 months
the four best books I've read so far this year, if you asked me RIGHT AT THIS MOMENT
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Starred @KirkusReviews for AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS 🥳 “Cárdenas writes with both playfulness and erudition. The long, looping sentences brim with references to writers and surrealists, as well as with rage and dark humor. A dark, original work.”
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Mauro Javier Cárdenas
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Here’s a list of great 21st century Latin American fiction available or forthcoming in English. I’ll be adding titles for the next few weeks / months / or until the proverbial ice truck mauls me. DISCLAIMER: the author of this list has ACTUALLY read these books.
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The time has come to firm up the galley list for AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS my 3rd novel Out Feb / Mar 2024 via @Dalkey_Archive & @OneworldNews If you would like to write about a surrealist oral history of Latin American deportees Let me know 😊
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Sometimes I wonder if the only purpose of literature is to remind us of the madeupness of almost everything
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@IneluctableQuak
20 days
Me & @joshuarothes coming for your Staff Picks
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6 months
Can we crowdsource a list of 2024 Novels with Long Sentences so that I have something to look forward to? 🥺 All I got so far is Commission of Tears by Antonio Lobo Antunes & Lesser Ruins by Mark Haber
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Mauro Javier Cárdenas
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No matter how much buzz you think a small press book is getting, I guarantee you is typically not enough to even break even. So post & re-post your favorites! It does help! Here’s one of mine: WALL by Jen Craig Copies on hand @PointReyesBooks
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I read 486 pages of THE OBSCENE BIRD OF NIGHT by Jose Donoso too many years ago, when I was starting out as a reader. I don’t remember anything but shadows of a convent or a monastery. I’m looking forward to reading what new readers make of it and trying it again.
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Highly recommend KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN by Manuel Puig Which has 3 narrative modes: - Dialogue Only (most of it and mostly one prisoner recounting movies to the other) - Police Report (there’s a heartbreaking double reversal) - Footnotes (has anyone written about them?)
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Must I write?
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I might as well keep going with the rest of Dubravka Ugresic 😬
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Lots of talk of long sentences in the context of Krasznahorkai & Bernhard but I fell in love with long sentences after reading AUTUMN OF THE PATRIARCH in my early 20s
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If the so-called big publishers started a so-called prestigious book award to award themselves awards What’s stopping the rest of the publishers to do the same? 😬
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8 months
Reminder that 60 of the most compelling pages of American literature are out of print
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7 years
My copy of INTERSTATE by Stephen Dixon arrived today with a 7/17/98 letter from Stephen Dixon: "it is my saddest book & at times I wish I had never given birth to it."
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Not bad for a novel that garnered more rejections than WITTGENSTEIN’S MISTRESS 🥳
@LuccaLazaro
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writer me: shit. A new book has entered the literary pantheon and is one with which I must now contend reader me: this book is so fkng fun!!
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One day I’ll write about why I find this so moving: Jeanette Winterson recounting how in her first novel she invented a character to look after little Jeanette otherwise it would have been too unbearable. ☹️
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It seems obvious now that SOLENOID should have an English translation, but I can tell you it wasn’t obvious to American editors even after its popularity in the Spanish speaking world. So @willevans deserves so much praise for taking what at the time was seen as a huge gamble!
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Mauro Javier Cárdenas
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En mi última noche en Bogotá @tigrillodelsur habló de piojos en Solenoide de Cartarescu y me di cuenta que la había confundido con Blinding. Hoy me llegó. A ver a que sabe. #thursdayreads
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