Kirk McElhearn Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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How helpless they all looked in the ugliness of sleep. A third of life spent unconscious and corpselike. And some, the great majority, stumbled through their waking hours scarcely more awake, helpless in the face of destiny. ― William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

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Rewatched Tarkovsky’s Stalker yesterday. It’s probably the film I’ve seen the second most often https://t.co/obLvdkVThk Available in this excellent set of Blu-Rays https://t.co/TQAVG5qzkr Followed it up by reading Geoff Dyer’s excellent book Zona https://t.co/2jy6Py9XRK

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On this week's Write Now with Scrivener podcast, I welcome Maggie Shipstead, who is shortlisted for the Booker Prize, winner to be announced this evening. We had a fascinating discussion about her novel Great Circle. https://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/write-now-with-scrivener-episode-no-7-maggie-shipstead-booker-shortlisted-author-of-great-circle @MaggieShipstead #Scrivener

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“No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open.” W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz

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“I could not help wondering, if the world were really as round as my geography-book said, how any part of it came to be so flat.” Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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Fascinating documentary on the BBC about T S Eliot’s poem The Waste Land, and particularly the influence of women in his life on the poem. https://t.co/oDNxPfN9ZI

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I’m currently rereading @SalmanRushdie ‘s The Satanic Verses, for the first time since I read it shortly after it was published, which is the least I can do to support the author and his decades-long fight for free speech. This book is full of such ebullient prose.

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Music or madness. It’s totally up to you. Ruth Ozeki, @ozekiland, The Book of Form and Emptiness

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@lynnsstrong Julian Barnes’s The Only Story. It goes from third person to second to first (or maybe the other way around)

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“Time is not endless becoming. And painting, notoriously, is the art that cannot show us time.” ― T.J. Clark, If These Apples Should Fall