Dan Sinykin Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Dan Sinykin

@g_e_howard Lorrie Moore, SELF-HELP, self help James Joyce, DUBLINERS, epiphany F. Scott Fitzgerald, TALES OF THE JAZZ AGE, jazz age Denis Johnson, JESUS' SON, being Jesus's son, no, wait

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@thesaramarcus @jpaltin Thomas Pavel is pretty explicit about this in The Lives of the Novel (another opponent for Bewes)

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"Words in sequence have a form to the mind's ear and the mind's tongue and larynx, even when read silently" I. A. Richards, 1929 80 years later, I heard M. H. Abrams, Richards's student, nearing 100, pick up this thread of argument, naming this the "fourth dimension of a poem"

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Richard Powers’ The Overstory "is powerfully boring, denaturing its own structure and integrity to blurt undigested tree information across the page, with a sequel in The Bewilderment that is pure melodrama (in a bad sense)" https://t.co/Ox7dC8mNdU

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Is there a great overview of psychoanalytic literary criticism and theory like Jonathan Culler on deconstruction or Leela Gandhi on postcolonialism?

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Taylor, have you ever dreamed of a man who can crack jokes off-the-cuff about William Gaddis's J R, who knows all the lore from Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, who laughs obscenely while reading Fran Ross's Oreo? Dream no more. He's real. https://t.co/s2jF2tGioJ

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only just cracked henry green's party going but oboy there was a man who could write some prose

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Proud that my essay on the passion of Danielle Steel made LARB's "Best of 2022." Love you, Danni bb. https://t.co/RjpZQqVhec

Dan Sinykin

@alanamayjohnson Mary Gaitskill, Bad Behavior Maxine Hong Kingston, Woman Warrior Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner Donald Barthelme, 60 Stories Flannery O'Connor, The Complete Stories George Saunders, Civilwarland in Bad Decline

Dan Sinykin

Richard Powers’ The Overstory "is powerfully boring, denaturing its own structure and integrity to blurt undigested tree information across the page, with a sequel in The Bewilderment that is pure melodrama (in a bad sense)" https://t.co/Ox7dC8mNdU