This was the year he rode the subway to the ends of the city, two hundred miles of track.

Naomi Fisher Truly cannot beat a Faulkner

he was crucified by the truth

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In the case of Deep Vellum alone I will read anything they publish sight unseen. I can think of no other publisher that commands such trustworthiness and has done so much to expand the reach and magic of experimental world literature.

Most people read Dostoevsky too early. They pick up Crime and Punishment in high school, struggle through a few chapters, and give up. Then they assume he’s just another dead Russian writer, good for a few quotes but not worth reading. That’s a mistake. Dostoevsky is one of the

Same for me! Now reading The Golden Bowl. Absolutely floored.

Agreed!

Yes to suggestion Backwardness becomes a novel itself.

One of the best comments on BM ever.

Pulled out The Sound and the Fury for a hit of Quentin Compson, forgot how hard this immediately goes: “Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”

“If I were a writer,” Owen said, “how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating, to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.” (77) Don DeLillo / The Names

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wtf did I just read. I can genuinely say I’ve never read a book even vaguely like this one. PKD’s mind worked in ways I can only imagine.

Finished. 😂😵‍💫🖤 770 pages of unattributed dialogue, punctuated by brief, rhapsodic prose. This work is an exercise in sustained chaos. A brutal and hilarious send up of American capitalism. An obituary for art and the artist. A work of genius. Un-fucking-paralleled.

the paranoia in Pynchon is the best kind because it’s such a grand, sweeping paranoia. unlike the online narcissism variant, in a Pynchon novel, no one is thinking about you specifically, and the system isn’t “targeting” you, because you’re just not that important

#StellaMaris #CormacMcCarthy #McCarthy25 If you had to say something definitive about the world in a single sentence what would that sentence be? …The world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy.

“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it.” ― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury Happy #FaulknerConference2025 week!

Can’t get enough of Prof. Michael Katz’s lectures. He talks in-depth about Dostoevsky’s works and his translations of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. He’s now working on The Idiot, a fresh translation is coming, the first major one since 2014

Great novel. Great bookstore.