Zito Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Anyway, I've been walking around thinking of some passages, and couldn't really remember where they were from. Thought it was originally from some Yoko Tawada books, but this morning, while hungover, I remembered that they were from Early Light by Dazai Osamu https://t.co/u9ek7suxDh

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“What is it like to read “Solenoid”? Narrative gloss does no justice to the novel’s strangeness, its sense of otherworldly hazard, its hypnagogic menace and navel-gazing decadence.” https://t.co/y4pCVYfvHy

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“And if McCarthy can’t quite survive that comparison, he submits himself to it in a way that evokes sympathy, and warmth, and a little awe. Those are also the feelings with which I read these books.” https://t.co/cksDGsGbqI

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I love the story a lot, because it's Cortazar, but also because it reminds me so much of Patrick Modiano's stories, especially Suspended Sentences: https://t.co/LmoMpdAaPD

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Reminds me of the Wilde essay, the soul of man under socialism: https://t.co/7cshH5oqei https://t.co/AKOYoUPtpS

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A Man’s Place, Annie Ernaux https://t.co/u1buP6RggU

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Some heat for the biography: “In comparison to both, Matthew Dennison’s Roald Dahl: Teller of the Unexpected is thin gruel. It is a stylish but curiously pointless biography, the kind that neither uncovers anything new nor casts what was already known in an interesting light.”

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Now that the book draft is done, I can read again: Happening, Annie Ernaux https://t.co/80IGSn0ehb

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“I’ve spent my life trying to sell myself, being clever and all that kind of stuff,” he said. “I stopped when I retired, and I didn’t miss it. And now all of the sudden I have to go back to doing this little tap dance to please people.” https://t.co/0WmrB0X0K2

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Was telling a friend about Jean Anouilh’s introduction to Antigone earlier today https://t.co/h9nw6aJLu5