Jacob Brogan Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Jacob Brogan

@AEAkinwumi The early novels of Richard Powers often fall into this terrain, in one way or another. Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, for example, includes an undisguised essay about Walter Benjamin and the question of aura in photography, among other things.

Jacob Brogan

Very good: Rachel Cusk, Second Place Chaotic Good: Simon Hanselmann, Crisis Zone https://t.co/p0NGMXKdQM

Jacob Brogan

To read “After Sappho” is to be blissfully adrift in a sea of love that could be contained in a single tear. https://t.co/TLc4H7KSOw

Jacob Brogan

Singing this book's praises in @BookWorld, Ron Charles writes, "The most disturbing moments of 'Chain-Gang All-Stars' don’t arise from its bizarre horrors but from those instances when the eerie light of this story illuminates our own brutal culture." https://t.co/GpDsm3LIBL https://t.co/2XSTySa4MR

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I've been reading Adam Zagajewski's poems for almost as long as Clare Cavanagh has been translating them, but her translation of "Transformation" (from Mysticism for Beginners) is the one that has stuck with me the most as I've aged. https://t.co/MU0yb14l0W https://t.co/Pnr6Oi4mGb

Jacob Brogan

Very good: Rachel Cusk, Second Place Chaotic Good: Simon Hanselmann, Crisis Zone https://t.co/p0NGMXKdQM

Jacob Brogan

Important parenthetical from @RonCharles on the new John Irving novel: "(It must also be noted that Jonathan Franzen is no longer the leading user of human poo in a literary novel. In The Last Chairlift, even the ghosts lose control of their bowels.)" https://t.co/S2p0jYWnZy

Jacob Brogan

[Reading Le Morte d'Arthur] So when does Thomas Malory kill King Arthur?

Jacob Brogan

Every first literary novel published after 2011 has an epigraph page that's like: "For as the world is in one aspect entirely idea, so in another it is entirely will." -Arthur Schopenhauer "No one man should have all that power." -Kanye West

Jacob Brogan

Rollicking, genially silly and ultimately sweet ... If all of that (and there’s so much more) sounds a little goofy, it mostly is, in a winningly loopy way