gregory howard Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

gregory howard

Alright. Calvino's Six Memos Grad fiction class looks like this: Quickness: stories by Carrington, Coover, Bolańo, D. Williams, Davila, Lydia Millet. Slowness: Cold Enough for Snow, Jessica Au and Bullet in the Brain, T. Wolff. Lightness: The Trees, Percival Everett

gregory howard

Thinking about the pandemic today and the section of Renee Gladman's The Activist in which the government keeps telling people that activists blew up a bridge and everyone standing in front of the bridge can see the bridge.

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Happy pub day to my friend @Morgan_J_Talty! Night of the Living Rez is just as beautiful, astonishing, and funny as you’ve heard.

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100 percent, or to quote Henry James "The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting." https://t.co/J0RqtG7fPg

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TIL that Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James had a lifelong very close friendship. I also learned that Andrew Lang said of RLS that "Stevenson possessed, more than any man I ever met, the power of making men fall in love with him."

gregory howard

Alright. Calvino's Six Memos Grad fiction class looks like this: Quickness: stories by Carrington, Coover, Bolańo, D. Williams, Davila, Lydia Millet. Slowness: Cold Enough for Snow, Jessica Au and Bullet in the Brain, T. Wolff. Lightness: The Trees, Percival Everett

gregory howard

@EmmettStinson I like Ferrante but not as much as Hazan’s Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

gregory howard

Alright. Calvino's Six Memos Grad fiction class looks like this: Quickness: stories by Carrington, Coover, Bolańo, D. Williams, Davila, Lydia Millet. Slowness: Cold Enough for Snow, Jessica Au and Bullet in the Brain, T. Wolff. Lightness: The Trees, Percival Everett

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I'm reading A Brief History of Portable Literature and there is no bad mood or reading slump that Vila-Matas can't assuage. To steal @TheLuisPanini's bit, give him the Nobel prize.

gregory howard

Teaching The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories this week in Postmodern lit and reminded once again that it's one of the best books of the 2nd half of the 20th century and that it Angela Carter's death at 51 still feels cruel for what she might have gifted us.