BasicChunnel on the other, better app Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
BasicChunnel on the other, better app on X
John WM Thompson. Essays, once, but now fiction: Nocturne, Fusion Fragment. Forthcoming in: Aurealis. Proprietor @no_publishing. My views are extremely good
Waste
Eugene MartenBasicChunnel on the other, better appEugene Marten, “Waste”. Elucidated to me, even more than Evenson, how often weirdness manifesting as a vibe in reading is produced by specifically applied choices of constraint in writing not necessarily meant to scare. More a method than a genre https://t.co/wOBbTtRUNn
Paperback, 2008
$10.00$5.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Week
Joanna RuoccoBasicChunnel on the other, better app“The Week” by Joanna Ruocco was helpful when I was upset re: the obliqueness of my own prose. Every sentence is a knot of sound and poetry, like Beckett. I could not read it passively, which infuriated me. As romcoms teach us, love and hate are sisters https://t.co/cgr05mIF2I
Out of stock
Night Film
Marisha PesslBasicChunnel on the other, better appsimultaneously reading the new Paul Tremblay (for review) and Marissha Pessl’s “Night Film” (for fun)… is it just me, or is anyone else just slightly allergic to fictional art within a facsimile of our world, presented as critically feted and culturally epochal?
Paperback, 2014
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cat Town
Sakutaro HagiwaraBasicChunnel on the other, better appIf you want to know my dark secret is simply this: I got the woodblock print portrait of Sakutaro Hagiwara inked on me bc I thought it looked cool, before I knew he was the infamous author of “Cat Town”, a weird tale about a town inhabited by cats https://t.co/jf5cALhWCN
Paperback, 2014
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ladivine
Marie NdiayeBasicChunnel on the other, better appReading the new Emma Cline — very strong Marie Ndiaye vibes to start off with. The meticulously indirect way in which the MC is revealed to have been (still be?) a sex worker has the dissociative vibe of LADIVINE. Not as good as that novel yet, but very little is
Out of stock
Worse Than Myself
Adam GolaskiBasicChunnel on the other, better app@perfidiouscript @ChristiNogle The story “Weird Furka” from Adam Golaski’s collection WORSE THAN MYSELF. Also a very dark BBC America one-season wonder from 2007 called INTRUDERS (underrated, esp if you liked UTOPIA)
Paperback, 2008
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Batman: The Killing Joke Deluxe (New Edition)
Alan MooreBasicChunnel on the other, better appThe modern American form of tragedy is the inherently and inexhaustibly cool genre of crime noir. I think you can probably trace the current glut of antihero content directly to Alan Moore & Frank Miller leaning heavy on Batman’s tonal elements of crime noir back in the 80s
Hardcover, 2019
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Course of the Heart
M. John HarrisonBasicChunnel on the other, better app“Empty Space: A Haunting” by M. John Harrison was one I regretted putting off for so long, baffling but led me directly to “The Course of the Heart” and its blaze still burning in the coal mines of my brain https://t.co/fqDgDsBR7A
Out of stock
The Jolly Corner
Henry JamesBasicChunnel on the other, better appWhen I was first submitting stories to workshop (not in an actual school setting, where they probably would have been brutalized), they were compared to “The Jolly Corner”, and even then I knew Henry James’s verbosity was excessive / a punchline
Paperback, 2023
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
95: The Ideas That Birthed the Reformation
Martin LutherBasicChunnel on the other, better appPutting together a list of 95 “dudes rock” films that I will nail to the doors of @Had_Oscar_Buzz like I’m Martin Luther. What I’ve got so far: https://t.co/YDpytsAms5
Paperback, 2017
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book