bleakhousing.bsky.social💀🔜VOIDCON Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Neil Postmanbleakhousing.bsky.social💀🔜VOIDCONBeen rereading Neil Postman's AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH. I still find some spots in here very useful and still relevant to today. Some, not so much. His Huxley-Orwell gambit is still spot on, I think.
Paperback, 2005
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After Sappho
Selby Wynn Schwartzbleakhousing.bsky.social💀🔜VOIDCONSo Mathias Énard’s COMPASS arrived today. Yesterday was THE OTHER NAME by Jon Fosse. Also today was AFTER SAPPHO by Selby Wynn Schwartz. I’m inundated w/ experimental fiction, but loving it. (Also got INHERENT VICE in the mail…🚬🏝🦷)
Paperback, 2024
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Stevens: Poems: Selected by Helen Vendler
Wallace Stevensbleakhousing.bsky.social💀🔜VOIDCONThe title is from one of my favorite Wallace Stevens poems: https://t.co/wD4EgyVUmX
Hardcover, 1993
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Escapes: Stories
Joy Williamsbleakhousing.bsky.social💀🔜VOIDCON#9 A number of scenes and all the female-female relationships were influenced DEEPLY by Joy Williams THE QUICK AND THE DEAD and her stories in HONORED GUEST.
Hardcover, 1990
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Piranesi
Susanna Clarkebleakhousing.bsky.social💀🔜VOIDCONI bought one book and it wasn’t a mass market. I’ve failed. It was a bargain priced PIRANESI by Susanna Clarke. https://t.co/l9v2loOUtQ
Paperback, 2021
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Richard Hofstadterbleakhousing.bsky.social💀🔜VOIDCONFinished EILEEN. Onto the stories. Also reading THE INHERITORS/William Golding. Peak enstrangement. Can’t read more than 1 fiction at a time. Helplessly monogamous with fiction. Dumb! Also: Hofstadter’s ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM IN AMERICAN LIFE shd be req’d reading in high schools.👍
Paperback, 1966
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My Dark Places: A True Crime Autobiography
James Ellroybleakhousing.bsky.social💀🔜VOIDCON@RPMirabella Yes, I do! Paradise by Toni Morrison Underground Railroad by C. Whitehead Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon My Dark Places by James Ellroy Those are off the top of my head. I can dig up more.
Paperback, 1997
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The Passenger
Cormac McCarthybleakhousing.bsky.social💀🔜VOIDCONYou can kiss my ass, but THE PASSENGER is a spiritual sequel to SUTTREE, that's it and that's all. I'm lovin' this. McCarthy could write a 400 pg. novel about making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and I'd eagerly read the motherfucker.
Paperback, 2023
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The Sheep Look Up
John Brunnerbleakhousing.bsky.social💀🔜VOIDCONYes, BORIS SAYS THE WORDS has big THE SHEEP LOOK UP vibes (by John Brunner). Both in imagery and aesthetic look. https://t.co/SVUkGQwsl4
Paperback, 2016
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
John Steinbeckbleakhousing.bsky.social💀🔜VOIDCONIf you’re talking shit about Steinbeck, I assume you’ve read none or one of his books, and even then you read it badly. Opening graf of TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY is perfect. And for that matter, so’s the opening graf of GATSBY. G’night.
Paperback, 1980
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