Adam O'Fallon Price Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Bell
Iris MurdochAdam O'Fallon PriceRemarkable example of third person’s infinite flexibility from Iris Murdoch’s THE BELL. Notice how, in the space of six sentences we draw upward from the focal character’s thoughts into an authorial reference to Tolstoy then immediately back down to character POV https://t.co/oLwuooIA80
Paperback, 2001
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The Nineties: A Book
Chuck KlostermanAdam O'Fallon PriceChuck Klosterman: okay so it's like one way of thinking about it is that the media, hmm okay, *is*—to some extent since the nineties—the message. okay? Bill Simmons (chuckles): sort of like when KG went to the Celts in 08
Paperback, 2023
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Grendel
John GardnerAdam O'Fallon PriceMy syllabus is simply an alphanumeric code, which, if deciphered, leads the student to a spot in the quad where I have buried a copy of John Gardner's Grendel
Paperback, 1989
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White Noise: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Don DelilloAdam O'Fallon PriceI like that we're at a particular point in history where you can blame anything on your bespoke grievance. This allows me to blame the Southwest flight delays on 1980s critics prematurely canonizing Don DeLillo's White Noise
Paperback, 2009
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Happy: Arranged for Solo Harp & Harp Duet
Pharrell WilliamsAdam O'Fallon PriceIf you're feeling down, try putting on Pharrell Williams' classic "Happy" and see if that doesn't fix you right up
Paperback, 2015
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The Method: A Self Help Guide
D. S. PaisAdam O'Fallon PriceHappy pub day to @parabasis! I am reading and loving THE METHOD, and I do not often read or love NF. A wonderful book and highly recommended for anyone interested in acting (duh) or more broadly, the way artistic movements emerge and shape culture https://bookshop.org/books/the-method-how-the-twentieth-century-learned-to-act/9781635574777
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The Metamorphosis
Ian Johnston)Adam O'Fallon PricePeriodic reminder that I have not yet read The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, please refrain from discussing or making jokes about it (I know it somehow involves a bug, that part has already been ruined for me 😡)
Paperback, 2016
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1984: 75th Anniversary
George OrwellAdam O'Fallon PriceGeorge Orwell would similarly have been wise to delay the publication of 1984 during the traumatic post-WWII moment of increased authoritarianism
Paperback, Mass Market, 1950
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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Carmen Maria MachadoAdam O'Fallon PriceI wish there were content warnings for stories like "bad prose," "waste of time," "mediocre carmen maria machado imitation," etc
Paperback, 2017
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Adaptation
Charlie KaufmanAdam O'Fallon PriceIf so, of course, this is not true. Per Brian Cox's Robert McKee in ADAPTATION, hugely dramatic things happen all the time in real life. And literature is heightened, rather than reduced, by the presence of 1WGs, by seeing characters act and choose
Paperback, 2023
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