Jay Innis Murray Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Jay Innis Murray

Second book finished this year is The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) by Mark Twain. A sort of American Don Quixote about the type of American society that would be the subtext for Twain’s great novel to follow. https://t.co/zTO6PUts0e

Jay Innis Murray

The figures in this illustration by Ralph Steadman in my copy of The Poor Mouth look like some of Mervyn Peake’s own for Gormenghast. https://t.co/kGBFVpnuKB

Jay Innis Murray

It’s hard to resist thinking about authorial intent with Bret Easton Ellis. I mean he’s not shy and his non-fiction White (2019) is right there and recent.

Jay Innis Murray

“Best cheeseburger I ever ate was at the lunchcounter at Comer’s Pool Hall on Gay Street in Knoxville Tennessee. You couldn’t get the grease off your fingers with gasoline.” (page 80) - The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy https://t.co/xdq3n585hd

Jay Innis Murray

23rd book is Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) by DH Lawrence. A truly insane book of poems about fruits, plants, animals and dead people. If he came across it, he wrote a poem about it. https://t.co/UVyMujmxiP

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14th book finished is New Hampshire (1923) by Robert Frost. 44 poems by Frost at his apex nearing age 50. Contains the famous Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. I’m thinking most about the poem right after it in the published sequence. Here: https://t.co/ihqsEl6W48

Jay Innis Murray

Second book finished this year is The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) by Mark Twain. A sort of American Don Quixote about the type of American society that would be the subtext for Twain’s great novel to follow. https://t.co/zTO6PUts0e

Jay Innis Murray

15th book of the year is The Beauty of the Husband (2001) by Anne Carson. Sitting here trying to think of things that are sharper than scalpels. Whatever that might be is what she used to autopsy her past marriage. https://t.co/fVmdBfgV4t

Jay Innis Murray

Third book finished this year is The Poor Mouth (1941) by Flann O’Brien. It’s so funny, and I do not think its like will ever be [anywhere] again. https://t.co/drMRd3Fgrf

Jay Innis Murray

The ashes of Shelley’s heart. Which Trelawney had scooped from the flames when the corpse was burned on the beach at Viareggio in 1822, and which were passed on to Mary — and were found in her copy of Adonais after her death in 1851. (Markson, The Last Novel)