
here is a quote i like from NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN:
'If all the words of this book are misspelled, but accidentally spell other words correctly, and also accidentally fall into a grammatically coherent arrangement, where coherency is defined as whatever doesn't upset people, it means this book is legally another book.'
also here's a link to an interview ben marcus did with brian evenson that i find really very good: marcus interviews evenson.
i just finished rereading Steve Erickson's RUBICON BEACH and then i read Roy Kesey's ALL OVER which had some incredible stuff in it. now i am going to reread Cormac McCarthy's BLOOD MERIDIAN. i think i am going to spend the rest of the year rereading stuff i already know i really like. there are so many books i call favorites that i haven't read in so long it is like i didn't read them. i have a terrible retention rate. there are people i've met 15-20 times and hung out with for hours and still can't remember their first name.
i am also going to reread Nicholson Baker's THE FERMATA, which if you haven't read it, is 320 pages about a man who learns to pause time and then goes around doing perverted shit to women while they are frozen. he does it really well.
i want to get a job teaching a writing class somewhere. or start an online writing school. as dumb as that might seem. someone help me.
2 comments:
I second your desire for new Marcus.
Right now I am rereading Danielewski's House of Leaves.
I rarely reread books.
I watched an episode of the twilight zone over 10 years ago that had a woman who could stop time. I don't remember what the plot was, but I remember she had found this amulet that gave her the power and she would say something like "shut up" to freeze time and "start talking" to resume time. I wanted to be able to do that and still do. and to be able to open a small pocket in the air and store shit in it and be able to close and open it at will. and to have a thin field around me at all times that would make the weather for me a crisp 60 degree autumn afternoon. it's too humid in texas.
i'm going to look for the fermata.
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