tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12563486354047034682024-03-16T14:52:27.361-04:00G D C S + S W D P||| | || | ||| |||| || |||||| |BLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.comBlogger578125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-56212941419912189912013-01-01T16:10:00.000-05:002017-05-08T14:21:36.399-04:00column @ Vice<span style="font-style: italic;">a weekly series of posts on books and shit</span><br />
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(163) <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/actually-the-great-gatsby-is-trash" target="_blank"><i>Actually, </i>The Great Gatsby<i> is Trash</i></a><br />(162) <i><a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/this-bike-poet-delivers-dreams-to-your-doorstep" target="_blank">This Bike Poet Delivers Dreams to Your Doorstep</a></i><br />
(161) <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/the-22-best-books-i-read-in-2016" target="_blank"><i>The 22 Best Books I Read in 2016</i></a><br />
(160) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/beach-reads-that-arent-bullshit" target="_blank">Three Beach Reads To Make Your Summer Less Boring and Alone</a></i><br />
(159) <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/being-a-professional-hearthstone-gamer-is-harder-than-it-looks" target="_blank"><i>Being a Professional 'Hearthstone' Gamer Is Harder Than It Looks</i></a><br />
(158) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/guy-maddin-fills-the-internet-with-haunted-films" target="_blank">These Short Films Will Self Destruct After You Watch Them</a></i><br />
(157) <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/the-familiar-would-like-to-be-less-familiar-than-it-actually-is" target="_blank">The Familiar <i>Would Like To Be Less Familiar Than It Actually Is</i></a><br />
(156) <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/nothing-is-as-it-seems-in-the-writing-of-brian-evenson" target="_blank"><i>Brian Evenson's Writing is as Brutal as it is Beautiful</i></a><br />
(155) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/throwing-confetti-at-satan-on-your-deathbed-090" target="_blank">Throwing Confetti in Death's Face with Derek McCormack</a></i><br />
(154) <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/the-hallucinatory-terror-of-unica-zrn" target="_blank"><i>The Hallucinatory Terror of Unica Zürn</i></a><br />
(153) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/three-books-that-will-make-you-question-your-reality-173" target="_blank">Three Books Blurring the Borders of Memory and Reality</a></i><br />
(152) <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/john-keenes-counternarratives-rewires-history-with-imagination" target="_blank"><i>John Keene's 'Counternarratives' Rewires History With Imagination</i></a><br />
(151) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/heather-christles-heliopause-disintegrates-reality-321" target="_blank">Heather Christle's 'Heliopause' Disintegrates Reality</a></i><br />
(150) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/aqua-teen-hunger-force-forever-is-the-end-of-an-era-111" target="_blank">'Aqua Teen Hunger Force Forever' is the End of an Era</a></i><br />
(149) <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/recent-attempts-to-set-world-records-that-ended-in-death-309" target="_blank"><i>People Who Died Trying To Set World Records</i></a><br />
(148) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/three-short-savage-books-that-might-also-be-mazes-959" target="_blank">Three Short, Savage Books You Have To Read</a></i><br />
(147) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/underappreciated-masterpieces-mary-robisons-why-did-i-ever-010" target="_blank">Underappreciated Masterpieces: Why Did I Ever (2001)</a></i><br />
(146) <i><a href="http://thefanzine.com/the-primal-nature-of-the-descent-to-the-grave-an-interview-with-m-kitchell/" target="_blank">Andrew James Weatherhead Proves You Don't Have To Share Every Single Thing That Comes Into Your Mind</a></i><br />
(145) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/finding-love-with-aspergers-183" target="_blank">Finding Love with Asperger's</a></i><br />
(144) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/ubu-publishes-the-unpublishable-872" target="_blank">Ubu Publishes the Unpublishable</a></i><br />
(143) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/a-haunted-house-novel-composed-entirely-of-animated-gifs-194" target="_blank">This Novel Is Made Entirely of Terrifying GIFs</a></i><br />
(142) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/the-unexpected-favorite-films-of-your-favorite-celebrities" target="_blank">The Unexpected Favorite Films of Your Favorite Celebrities</a></i><br />
(141) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/food-is-a-private-hell-love-is-a-private-hell-386" target="_blank">Food is a Private Hell, Love is a Private Hell</a></i><br />
(140) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/have-you-ever-dreamed-of-this-man-111" target="_blank">Have You Ever Dreamed of 'This Man'?</a></i><br />
(139) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/all-the-books-i-read-in-2014-111" target="_blank">All the Books I Read in 2014</a></i><br />
(138) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/we-live-in-hiromi-its-wasteland" target="_blank">We Live In Hiromi Ito's Wasteland</a></i><br />
(137) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/a-roller-coaster-designed-to-kill-people-999" target="_blank">A Roller Coaster Designed To Kill People</a></i><br />
(136) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/a-textual-museum-of-murder-suicide-and-revelation-in-baltimore-583" target="_blank">A Written Museum of Murder, Suicide, and Revelation in Baltimore</a></i><br />
(135) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/the-top-10-worst-beatles-songs" target="_blank">The Top 10 Worst Beatles Songs</a></i><br />
(134) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/six-uniquely-terrifying-books-for-halloween-815" target="_blank">Six Uniquely Terrifying Books for Halloween</a></i><br />
(133) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/talking-video-games-and-ghosts-with-john-darnielle-219" target="_blank">Talking Video Games and Ghosts with John Darnielle</a></i><br />
(132) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/taking-the-perspective-of-a-serial-killer-915" target="_blank">Yannick Murphy Puts You In The Mind of a Serial Killer</a></i><br />
(131) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/grandiose-predictions-for-the-2014-nfl-season" target="_blank">Grandiose Predictions for the 2014-15 NFL Season</a></i><br />
(130) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/geographic-north-redefines-space" target="_blank">Geographic North Redefines Space</a></i><br />
(129) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/tim-sanderss-unvarnished-thought" target="_blank">Love in the Time of Xanax and Nokia</a></i><br />
(128) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/thirty-years-of-the-vital-dalkey-archive-press" target="_blank">Thirty Years of Dalkey Archive Press</a></i><br />
(127) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/the-bizarre-and-terrifying-propaganda-art-of-the-children-of-god-666" target="_blank">The Bizarre and Terrifying Propaganda Art of the Children of God</a></i><br />
(126) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/sprezzatura-basically-means-youre-chill-but-you-give-a-shit" target="_blank">Sprezzatura Basically Means You're Chill but You Give a Shit</a></i><br />
(125) <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/underappreciated-masterpieces-jg-ballards-high-rise-1975" target="_blank"><i>Underappreciated Masterpieces: J.G. Ballard's </i>High-Rise</a><br />
(124) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/why-do-so-many-soft-drinks-taste-like-teletubby-blood" target="_blank">Why Do So Many Soft Drinks Taste Like Teletubby Blood?</a></i><br />
(123) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/summer-reading-list-zombie-hordes-snuff-films-haunted-computers-368" target="_blank">Summer Reading List: Zombie Hordes, Snuff Films, Haunted Computers</a></i><br />
(122) <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/the-2015-nba-all-star-flop-challenge" target="_blank"><i>The 2015 NBA All-Star Flop Challenge</i></a><br />
(121) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/m-geddes-gengras-makes-electronic-music-for-the-last-wild-indian" target="_blank">M. Geddes Gengras Makes Electronic Music for the Last Wild Indian</a></i><br />
(120) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/how-many-crystals-do-you-have-left-inside-you" target="_blank">How Many Crystals Do You Have Left Inside You?</a></i><br />
(119) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/america-needs-alzheimers-funding-now" target="_blank">America Needs Alzheimer's Funding Now</a></i><br />
(118) <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/joe-wenderoth-cannot-be-vanquished" target="_blank"><i>Joe Wenderoth Cannot Be Vanquished</i></a><br />
(117) <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/the-underappreciated-masterpieces-of-javier-maras" target="_blank"><i>Underappreciated Masterpieces: Javier Marías's </i>Dark Back of Time</a><br />
(116) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/are-blake-griffins-kia-commercials-psychic-warfare" target="_blank">Are Blake Griffin's Kia Commercials Psychic Warfare?</a></i><br />
(115) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/some-books-can-watch-you-read-them" target="_blank">Some Books Can Watch You Read Them</a></i><br />
(114) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/owning-a-porno-used-to-mean-something-damnit" target="_blank">Owning Porno Used To Mean Something, Damnit</a></i><br />
(113) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/if-i-cant-be-brain-damaged-i-dont-want-to-read" target="_blank">If I Can't Be Brain Damaged I Don't Want To Read</a></i><br />
(112) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/anyone-who-isnt-dead-is-a-witch" target="_blank">Anyone Who Isn't Dead is a Witch</a></i><br />
(111) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/its-time-to-rethink-the-crime-genre" target="_blank">It's Time to Rethink the Crime Genre</a></i><br />
(110) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/hill-william-sings-ghost-country" target="_blank">Hill William Sings Ghost Country</a></i><br />
(109) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/american-art-needs-more-holes" target="_blank">American Art Needs More Holes</a></i><br />
(108) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/an-interview-with-richard-garfield-creator-of-magic-the-gathering" target="_blank">An Interview with Richard Garfield, Creator of Magic: The Gathering</a></i><br />
(107) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/future-harpers-index-of-america" target="_blank">Future Harper's Index of America</a></i><br />
(106) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/the-uncanny-puzzles-of-jesse-ball" target="_blank">The Uncanny Puzzles of Jesse Ball</a></i><br />
(105) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/whoops-i-like-pro-football" target="_blank">Whoops, I Like Pro Football</a></i><br />
(104) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/sci-fi-doesnt-have-to--horny-bro-wizards" target="_blank">Sci-Fi Doesn't Have To Be Dominated by Horny Bro Wizards</a></i><br />
(103) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/what-is-this-terror-before-me-a-review-of-the-new-taco-bell-grilled-stuft-nacho" target="_blank">What Is This Terror Before Me: A Review of the New Taco Bell Grilled Stuft Nacho</a></i><br />
(102) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/brief-reviews-of-every-movie-i-saw-in-theaters-in-2013" target="_blank">Brief Reviews of Every Movie I Saw in 2013</a></i><br />
(101) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/all-the-books-i-read-in-2013" target="_blank">All the Books I Read in 2013</a></i><br />
(100) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/i-have-voluntary-tourettes-and-am-insane" target="_blank">I Have Voluntary Tourette's (and am insane)</a></i><br />
(99) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/portrait-of-the-marquis-de-sade-as-a-young-female-hacker" target="_blank">Portrait of the Marquis de Sade as a Young Female Hacker</a></i><br />
(98) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/books-i-gave-up-on-reading" target="_blank">Books I Gave Up On Reading</a></i><br />
(97) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/reviews-of-local-churches-that-wont-stop-growing" target="_blank">Reviews of Churches That Won't Stop Growing</a></i><br />
(96) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/implausible-literary-halloween-costumes-no-one-will-recognize" target="_blank">Implausible Literary Halloween Costumes No One Will Recognize</a></i><br />
(95) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/learning-how-to-haunt-yourself" target="_blank">Learning How To Haunt Yourself</a></i><br />
(94) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/the-many-false-floors-of-harry-mathews" target="_blank">The Many False Floors of Harry Mathews</a></i><br />
(93) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/everyone-is-a-plagiarist" target="_blank">Everyone is a Plagiarist</a></i><br />
(92) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/thirteen-alternate-endings-for-breaking-bad" target="_blank">Thirteen Alternate Endings for Breaking Bad</a></i><br />
(91) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/burning-bodies-and-playing-dead" target="_blank">Burning Bodies and Playing Dead with Jeff Jackson</a></i><br />
(90) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/what-celebrities-eat-at-golden-corral" target="_blank">What Celebrities Eat at Golden Corral</a></i><br />
(89) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/if-you-build-the-code-your-computer-will-write-the-novel" target="_blank">If You Build the Code, Your Computer Will Write the Novel</a></i><br />
(88) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/windows-that-lead-to-more-windows-an-interview-with-gary-lutz" target="_blank">Windows That Lead To More Windows: An Interview With Gary Lutz</a></i><br />
(87) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/the-permutating-brain-of-stephen-dixon" target="_blank">The Permutating Brain of Stephen Dixon</a></i><br />
(86) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/what-i-remember-from-getting-an-mfa-in-creative-writing" target="_blank">What I Remember from Getting an MFA in Creative Writing</a></i><br />
(85) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/holes-and-bodies-and-secrets-and-skin-and-death" target="_blank">Holes and Bodies and Secrets and Skin and Death</a></i><br />
(84) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/rachel-glasers-hypercolor-multitude-of-moods" target="_blank">Rachel Glaser's Hypercolor Multitude of Moods</a></i><br />
(83) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/fatty-xxl-meets-the-little-mermaid-high-on-x-and-texting" target="_blank">Fatty XXL Meets The Little Mermaid High on X & Texting</a></i><br />
(82) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/i-hate-myself-and-want-to-die-a-review-of-the-new-wendys-pretzel-burger" target="_blank">I Hate Myself And Want To Die: A Review of the New Wendy's Pretzel Burger</a></i><br />
(81) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/the-beatles-are-dead-fassbinder-is-alive" target="_blank">The Beatles are Dead, Fassbinder is Alive</a></i><br />
(80) <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/great-female-narrators" target="_blank"><i>All My Favorite Narrators Are Women</i></a><br />
(79) <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/inside-the-mind-of-a-female-pedophile" target="_blank"><i>Inside the Mind of a Female Pedophile</i></a><br />
(78) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/conceptual-gender-violence-murder-and-bob-seger" target="_blank">Conceptual Writing, Gender, Murder, & Bob Seger</a></i><br />
(77) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/happy-rock-by-matthew-simmons-a-one-man-black-metal-band" target="_blank">"Happy Rock" by Matthew Simmons, a One-Man Black Metal Band</a></i><br />
(76) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/what-are-these-freaks-reading" target="_blank">What Are These Freaks Reading?</a></i><br />
(75) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/the-miami-heat-reader" target="_blank">The Miami Heat Reader</a></i><br />
(74) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/fences-fifteen-years-of-reconfiguring-the-landscape" target="_blank">Fence's 15 Years of Reconfiguring the Literary Landscape</a></i><br />
(73) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/please-start-banning-books-again" target="_blank">Please Start Banning Books Again</a></i><br />
(72) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/suck-on-the-monolith" target="_blank">Suck on the Monolith</a></i><br />
(71) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/anton-chekhov-vs-jeffrey-dahmer" target="_blank">Anton Chekhov versus Jeffrey Dahmer</a></i><br />
(70) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/body-doubles-of-prisoners-covered-in-cocaine" target="_blank">Sarcophagi of Prisoners Covered in Cocaine</a></i><br />
(69) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/an-interview-with-harmony-korine" target="_blank">Tupac, Neck Braces, and Suicide: An Interview with Harmony Korine</a></i><br />
(68) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/the-unrelenting-novels-of-thomas-bernhard" target="_blank">The Unrelenting Novels of Thomas Bernhard</a></i><br />
(67) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/shapes-that-make-you-dizzy" target="_blank">Shapes That Make You Dizzy</a></i><br />
(66) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/100-literary-rumors" target="_blank">100 Literary Rumors</a></i><br />
(65) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/the-march-madness-of-fast-food" target="_blank">March Madness of Fast Food</a></i><br />
(64) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/scott-mcclanahans-animal-magnetism" target="_blank">Scott McClanahan's Animal Magnetism</a></i><br />
(63) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/the-daily-life-of-an-alzheimers-caregiver" target="_blank">The Day in the Life of an Alzheimer's Caregiver</a></i><br />
(62) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/sergio-de-la-pavas-narrative-mutations" target="_blank">Sergio De La Pava's Narrative Mutations</a></i><br />
(61) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/the-disorienting-novels-of-kobo-abe" target="_blank">The Disorienting Novels of Kobo Abe</a></i><br />
(60) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/social-work-in-the-tenderloin-will-kill-something-inside-of-you" target="_blank">Social Work in the Tenderloin Will Kill Something Inside You</a></i><br />
(59) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/tim-hecker-builds-mountains-with-sound" target="_blank">Tim Hecker Builds Mountains With Sound</a></i><br />
(58) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/what-is-obscene" target="_blank">What is Obscene?</a></i><br />
(57) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/crude-drawings-of-hot-scenes-from-literature" target="_blank">Crude Drawings of Hot Scenes from Literature</a></i><br />
(56) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/anne-carson-vs-george-saunders" target="_blank">Anne Carson vs. George Saunders</a></i><br />
(55) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/the-jim-jones-of-poetry" target="_blank">The Jim Jones of Poetry</a></i><br />
(54) <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/how-will-the-david-foster-wallace-legacy-survive-itself-by-blake-butler" target="_blank"><i>How Will the David Foster Wallace Legacy Survive Itself?</i></a><i> </i><br />
(53) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/brief-reviews-of-every-movie-i-saw-in-theaters-in-2012" target="_blank">Brief Reviews of Every Movie I Saw In Theaters in 2012</a></i><br />
(52) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/men-are-victims-of-workplace-sexual-harassment-too" target="_blank">Men Are Victims of Workplace Sexual Harassment, Too</a></i><br />
(51) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/all-the-books-i-read-in-2012" target="_blank">All the Books I Read in 2012</a></i><br />
(50) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/verbal-paintings-of-cartoon-dogs-sexting" target="_blank">Verbal Paintings of Cartoon Dogs Sexting</a></i><br />
(49) <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/considering-roberto-bolao-woes-of-the-true-policeman" target="_blank"><i>Considering Roberto Bolaño and 'Woes of the True Policeman'</i></a> <br />
(48) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/my-greatest-performances-in-binge-eating" target="_blank">My Greatest Performances in Binge Eating</a></i><br />
(47) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/just-because-youre-bored-doesnt-mean-you-have-to-be-a-surrealist" target="_blank">Just because you're bored doesn't mean you have to be a surrealist</a></i><br />
(46) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/who-is-zachary-german" target="_blank">Who is Zachary German?</a></i><br />
(45) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/the-dark-logic-of-clarice-lispector" target="_blank">The Dark Logic of Clarice Lispector</a></i><br />
(44) <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/messed-up-books-to-read-while-wearing-a-mask" target="_blank"><i>Messed Up Books To Read While Wearing A Mask</i></a><br />
(43) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/i-asked-my-dad-who-has-dementia-to-annotate-jonathan-franzens-how-to-be-alone-" target="_blank">I asked my dad, who has dementia, to annotate Jonathan Franzen's</a></i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/i-asked-my-dad-who-has-dementia-to-annotate-jonathan-franzens-how-to-be-alone-" target="_blank"> How To Be Alone</a><br />
(42) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/dont-want-to-read-any-more-books-about-straight-white-people-having-sex" target="_blank">I don't want to read any more books about straight white people having sex</a></i><br />
(41) <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/dorothea-laskys-wild-ass-shout-brain" target="_blank"><i>Dorothea Lasky's Wild-Ass Shout-Brain</i></a><br />
(40) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/michael-chabons-dream-journal" target="_blank">Michael Chabon's Dream Journal</a></i><br />
(39) <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/michael-kimballs-enormous-death-eye" target="_blank"><i>Michael Kimball's Enormous Death-Eye</i></a><br />
(38) <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/a-chat-with-david-byrne-about-how-music-works-by-blake-butler" target="_blank">A Chat With David Byrne About 'How Music Works'</a></i><br />
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(17) <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/how-to-write-a-novel-about-murdering-nazis" target="_"><span style="font-style: italic;">How To Write a Novel About Murdering Nazis</span></a><br />
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(9) <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/the-english-language-needs-a-new-dad" target="_"><span style="font-style: italic;">The English Language Needs a New Dad</span></a><br />
(8) <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/reconsidering-perecs-library" target="_"><span style="font-style: italic;">Reconsidering Perec's Library</span></a><br />
(7) <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/the-shining-2-by-jonathan-franzen-by-stephen-king" target="_"><span style="font-style: italic;">"The Shining 2 by Jonathan Franzen" by Stephen King</span></a><br />
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(4) <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/books-i-havent-read" target="_"><span style="font-style: italic;">Selected Unread Books I've Had On My Self For 5+ Years and Why I Haven't Read Them yet And/Or What I Think They Might Be About</span></a><br />
(3) <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/injecting-mercury" target="_"><span style="font-style: italic;">Injecting Mercury</span></a><br />
(2) <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/multiplying-hells-pierre-guyotat" target="_">The Multiplying Hells of Pierre Guyotat</a></span><br />
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<i>Books that reappear when you destroy them, lampshades made of skin, people named with numbers and who can’t recall each other, a Universal Ceiling constructed by an otherwise faceless authority, a stairwell stuffed with birds: the terrain and populace of SKY SAW is packed with stroboscopic memory mirage. In dynamic sentences and image, Blake Butler crafts a post-Lynchian nightmare where space and family have deformed, leaving the human persons left in the strange wake to struggle after the shapes of both what they loved and who they were.</i><br />
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The klieg-light intensity of Butler's writing intimates that there is something fundamentally terrifying about what each of us does every single night, which is to pitch our minds and bodies into oblivion. — <em>TIME</em></div>
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In an interview published in the winter 2010 issue of the PARIS REVIEW, Jonathan Franzen said to Stephen Burn, "I've never felt less self-consciously preoccupied with language than I did when I was writing FREEDOM. Over and over again, as I was producing chapters, I said to myself, 'This feels nothing like the writing I did for twenty years—this just feels transparent.'’ Franzen added that this struck him as "a good sign"—an indication that he was "pressing language more completely into the service of providing transparent access to the stories I was telling and to the characters in those stories."</div>
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Blake Butler is the opposite of that. — <em>BOOKFORUM</em></div>
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I couldn't tell what was really happening and what wasn't or who it was or wasn't happening too. I really wanted to know if they were dreaming awake talking about themselves or an entity. If you can read this book and understand it than truly you are amazing and can read anything. I must be a daft idiot cause this book made me want to kill it and myself for even trying so hard. — Shree Lafaye Ziller AMAZON.com</div>
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Butler is the 21st century answer to William Burroughs. – <em>PUBLISHERS WEEKLY</em></div>
BLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-91298776219993146392012-05-05T13:31:00.003-04:002012-05-05T13:31:45.771-04:00a section deleted from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Portrait-Insomnia-Blake-Butler/dp/0061997382/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1336239078&sr=8-3" target="_blank"><i>Nothing</i></a> appears at the newly relaunched Fanzine, concerning Joseph Cornell, Heather Christle, Joyelle McSweeney, and James Joyce: <a href="http://thefanzine.com/hybrid-locations-thoughts-on-dreaming-or-insomnia-and-language/" target="_blank">Hybrid Locations: Thoughts on Dreaming or Insomnia and Language</a>BLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-63269425213367582632012-02-06T12:52:00.005-05:002012-02-06T12:59:52.946-05:00Anatomy Courses<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tIR3aUyLGqY/TzATejZs9fI/AAAAAAAAAaA/FtelferpHaY/s1600/tumblr_ly9ix6WSsY1r3gndd.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tIR3aUyLGqY/TzATejZs9fI/AAAAAAAAAaA/FtelferpHaY/s400/tumblr_ly9ix6WSsY1r3gndd.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706082143498466802" /></a><br /><br /><br />Available today from <a href="http://lazyfascistpress.com/" target="_">Lazy Fascist</a>, cowritten with Sean Kilpatrick. <br /><br />Many thanks to Cameron Pierce for releasing this slim strange book I never thought would be released.<br /><br /><a href="http://lazyfascistpress.com/2011/11/07/lazy-fascist-acquires-anatomy-courses-by-blake-butler-and-sean-kilpatrick/" target="_">More information.</a>BLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-6660034049074769212011-10-14T13:19:00.007-04:002012-02-06T17:50:56.390-05:00Nothing: A Portrait of InsomniaMy first book of nonfiction came out this week. <br /><br /><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 265px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R-15lFB3Jxw/TphvP-h3DGI/AAAAAAAAAZA/UZX9T2pFd5w/s400/arts_books3-1_24.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663398851692137570" /><br /><br />Review in <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2096309,00.html" target="_">Time</a><br /><br />Review in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/books/review/nothing-a-portrait-of-insomnia-by-blake-butler-book-review.html?pagewanted=all" target="_">New York Times</a> (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/books/review/editors-choice.html?_r=1" target="_">Editor's Choice</a>)<br /><br />Review in <a href="http://clatl.com/atlanta/blake-butler-builds-something-out-of-nothing/Content?oid=4104043" target="_">Creative Loafing</a><br /><br />Review/interview at <a href="http://www.thefanzine.com/articles/features/532/what_not_sleeping_starts_to_make-_blake_butler%27s_nothing/1">Fanzine</a><br /><br />Review in <a href="http://blogs.ajc.com/arts-culture/2011/10/26/nothing-a-portrait-of-insomnia-by-blake-butler/" target="_">Atlanta Journal & Constitution</a><br /><br />Review at <a href="http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-best-books-we-read-in-2011,67013/" target="_">Onion A/V Club</a><br /><br />Interview in <a href="http://www.interviewmagazine.com/blogs/culture/2011-10-11/blake-butler-nothing/" target="_">Interview</a><br /><br />Radio Interview on <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/2011/oct/17/cant-sleep/" target="_">The Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC)</a><br /><br />Podcast at <a href="http://otherpeoplepod.com/archives/102" target="_">Other People</a><br /><br />* * *<br /><br />You can get Nothing now at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061997382/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d1_g14_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1CK6C2GB7BHG23SB2WC9&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846" target="_">Amazon</a>, SPD, stores, etc.BLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.com43tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-34987179917633216232011-10-12T13:11:00.001-04:002011-10-12T13:11:43.052-04:00i gave my dad some candyMOM: What do you say when someone gives you something you want?<br />DAD: I want this.BLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-48691776162878374092011-10-03T12:05:00.003-04:002011-10-03T12:26:28.374-04:0030 Under 30<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4nqd10xZjhU/TondxI4Vl6I/AAAAAAAAAY4/ImawCg96nmU/s1600/30-under-anthology-innovative-fiction-by-younger-blake-butler-paperback-cover-art.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 309px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4nqd10xZjhU/TondxI4Vl6I/AAAAAAAAAY4/ImawCg96nmU/s400/30-under-anthology-innovative-fiction-by-younger-blake-butler-paperback-cover-art.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5659298243034847138" /></a><br />i have extra copies of this <a href="http://www.amazon.com/30-Under-Anthology-Innovative-Fiction/dp/0984213333/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317657882&sr=8-1" target="_">30 Under 30 Anthology</a> of younger innovative writers I edited with Lily Hoang, out a month or so ago. if you would like one, paypal $12 to blakebutler [at] gmail [dot] com (shipping included)<br /><br /><br />"30 Under 30 offers an impressive cross-section of innovative American fiction by young writers. If you're tired of the 'authorized version' and want a sense of where fiction is really going, what its future shapes and forms are likely to be, this is the place to start." - Brian Evenson, author of Fugue State and The Open Curtain.<br /><br />"Cops in the clouds, a father and daughter’s mythic severing, fictions of spreadsheets, a story ending in future tense. For those young enough still to live in language, words are tangible as slivers, as hard candy in the mouth. These thirty assemble the outlandish, the ecstatic, the wild, and there’s a conviction they can just do this." - R. M. Berry, author of Frank and Dictionary of Modern Anguish<br /><br />CONTRIBUTORS: Joanna Ruocco » Brian Oliu » Michael J. Lee » Angi Becker Stevens » Shane Jones » Devin Gribbons » Christina Kloess » James Yeh » William Seabrook » Danielle Adair » Megan Milks » Rachel Glaser » Michael Stewart » Sean Kilpatrick » Andrea Kneeland » Zach Dodson » Beth Couture » Mike Young » Kathleen Rooney & Elisa Gabbert » Joshua Cohen » Matt Bell » Adam Good » Andrew Farkas » Jaclyn Dwyer » Ryan Downey » Ryan Call » Kristina Born » Conor Madigan » Rebecca Jean Kraft » Evenlyn HamptonBLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-56634211429256755872011-08-11T22:50:00.000-04:002011-08-11T22:51:05.133-04:00what would happen if a private source offered $5 million to 1st American who can convince someone in their family to commit suicide on filmBLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-83144597279513408832011-07-30T15:11:00.002-04:002011-07-30T15:11:49.384-04:00This story is called wrote a new story todayGlobs on a box of a pile of dogshit claim rainwater leaked along the cardboard bent in hands that wiweuhasdifoasiud oaid oiaus dofiu aosid jfuahsdfhak jsb kjhas kdjh;aush fo;fhas d;ofha;osidf;aiufiausoifuaoishdf;oha;sdhf ;ohajdhj ahnsdj nas;djh;oauhsdo;fuh asohdf ahsodifjo aisjdfi jalsdkjnv laskjd lkjalksdjf lkajs;lfdk ja;lskj dfl;kajsdl fkjal;skdjf l;kajsd ;fljas;dlkjf;adsjf;hasjdh ;ohdofijai jfp’I jasdjf lakjsd;fjasijdfiajsdhfljahsdljhfla;sjhlfkjs lkjf laksjdf;klja sldkjf l;aksjdf ljasdl;fkja;lskdjfl ja jfkajs ;dkfja;l sjfo;iasj d;oifj a;jsdh f;o sd;ofij h asl;dhf;owheoidoigha;sjdhasjhdoahds ou ;oiadu fiua aiuf’oi a;osih ;aojsd ;jan;jvn;jxnc;ojva;osh;ouahs;oga;osidhg;oasuhdofiuao;sidufoaisuf;oiausd;iouf;oaisudfo;iua;osidu aoiduf 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80 0[8a udf08 a08 0[a8fu 0a8duf uahsd;oufhalksdhblkhzxbcvlkhzbxldkhgflaksdhfliuehriuwyoufhasioduhf;OUhdf;jkabse;ufha;ksjdhf;oauwehf;oasdbf;aosudhf;oasudyfo;ueyw;o ;wou ye;fou a;ouiw a;oi f;ouah ;fou a;ois foai sefoa;osu o;uasyd ;ouahdf ou;ahsd ;ouhasdo;fh a;osdh f;jashd;fljha ;oh ad;ofhajl;sdhf ;ljahs d;lfjha;sldjh foaisufoua 8uaf ;ouas ufaois oiasdoifu aipusdfp’iu aipsudf aipus p’iu adp’sif uap’isdu fipaup’iu aip’sdu faipusdfipuasdipuf’pai ‘pidu faipusdfipuasdipfuaip’u d’p adipufaipsudfipuap’sidu ‘apiud fip’ uasdipufaipsudf ‘paiu dfipua sdipfuaps diu ‘paisdu f’paisud pia udipsufaipsudfaipusp’iuaps’idu ‘paiusdf’p uaips’duf p’aisdu ‘paisud ‘piausdfp iausd fipuasd piuadipfuaipsdufaipsud p’I a’piua sp’I ufap’isud ‘apisdu p’iuasdip uaips’duf aipusdf aip’sdu f;aiosudfoiasdoi ufaipsud fp’iausdop’fi p’aosidfop as’pdo fiaops’id afopisdfopuaipsdufiausd fipuasdipufaipsudfipuasdipfuaipsdufaipusdfipuadisufip’ausdfipudisfaipusd’ pa’disu faipsud p’aisud fipuasdip’fuBLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-33818782630803516062011-07-24T17:38:00.001-04:002011-07-24T17:40:13.793-04:00you can now get my book EVER in ebook form for $6 <a href="http://www.calamaripress.com/Ever.htm" target="_">from Calamari Press</a>BLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-73314865880573033742011-06-27T15:25:00.002-04:002011-06-27T15:26:48.193-04:00<span style="font-style:italic;">In the Heart of the Country</span> by Coetzee is really fantasticBLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-85669122067391259382011-06-17T01:54:00.001-04:002011-06-17T01:54:38.242-04:00things are gpomg tp get worse arent theyBLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-66119068485757279332011-06-17T01:24:00.001-04:002011-06-17T01:25:39.553-04:00sometimes<br />book<br />reviews<br />make<br />me<br />wonder<br />if<br />there<br />are<br />really<br />any<br />peopleBLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-83037998864470833452011-06-12T21:47:00.003-04:002011-06-12T21:49:30.616-04:00"There was a wall in him that no one reached. Not even Clara, though she assumed it had deformed him. A tiny stone swallowed years back that had grown with him and which he carried around because he could not shed it. His motive for hiding it had probably extinguished itself years earlier. . . . Patrick and his small unimportant stone. It had entered him at the wrong time in his life. Then it had been a flint of terror. He could have easily turned aside at the age of seven or twenty, and just spat it out and kept on walking, and forgotten it by the next street corner.<br /><br />"So we are built."BLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-42271970749007690242011-04-10T14:06:00.002-04:002011-04-10T14:10:06.452-04:00There is No Year reading tourGoing out for a little stretch on the road to do reading junk from <a href="http://youritlist.com/blakebutler/blakebutler.html" target="_">There is No Year</a>; if you are nearby, would be rad to hang out!<br /><br />Monday, April 11, 2011<br />POWELL'S BOOKSTORE<br />1005 West Burnside Portland, OR 97210<br />7:30<br /><br />Tuesday, April 12, 2011<br />UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE<br />4326 University Way Seattle, WA 98105<br />7:00<br /><br />Thursday, April 14, 2011<br />CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE<br />261 Columbus AVE San Francisco, CA 94133-4586<br />7:00<br /><br />Friday, April 15, 2011<br />SKYLIGHT BOOKS<br />1818 N. Vermont AVE Los Angeles, CA 90027<br />7:30<br /><br />Sunday, April 17, 2011<br />Largehearted Lit series - at WORD<br />126 Franklin ST Brooklyn, NY 11222<br />7:30<br /><br />Monday, April 18, 2011<br />MCNALLY JACKSON BOOKS<br />52 Prince ST New York, NY 10012<br />7:00<br /><br />Wednesday, April 20, 2011<br />BROOKLINE BOOKSMITH<br />279 Harvard St Brookline, MA 02446<br />7:00BLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-74484310811815442432011-04-05T11:50:00.003-04:002011-04-05T11:57:18.932-04:00There is No Year drops todaySeems wild to already be at April 5 2011, but here we are. <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">There is No Year</span> is available widely, including online at several places found <a href="http://youritlist.com/blakebutler/blakebutler.html" target="_">here</a>.<br /><br />Amazon has it for like less than $9, and there are the brick stores that are alive.<br /><br /><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 314px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C-r1A_9tGhQ/TZs7EpIBexI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/kr07f4TKe8o/s400/9780061997426_0_Cover.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592128313255623442" /><br /><br />An immense honor to have blurbs from two of my favorite writers of all time:<br /><br />“If there’s a more thoroughly brilliant and exciting new writer than Blake Butler, . . . well, there just isn’t. I’ve literally lost sleep imagining the fallout when There Is No Year drops and American fiction shifts its axis.”<br />— Dennis Cooper <br /><br />"Blake Butler, mastermind and visionary, has sneaked up and drugged the American novel. What stumbles awake in the aftermath is feral and awesome in its power, a fairy tale of an ordinary family subjected to the strange, lonesome agony known as daily life. There is No Year is a merciless novel cleansed of joy, pumped full of fear and awe."<br />— Ben Marcus<br /><br />Thanks again to all who've done so much for me and continue to do so much. I couldn't feel happier. <br /><br />I hope you'll check out the book if you feel it.BLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-63303498064857459282011-04-03T14:45:00.001-04:002011-04-03T14:45:18.259-04:00"In fantasies of romance it was she who fought and overcame thereon to rescue some object or figure that never in the reverie resolved or took to itself any shape or name."BLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-85137889455262255212011-03-17T12:36:00.004-04:002011-03-17T12:44:51.285-04:004 Recent Internet Shits of Me Running My Mouth Etc<a href="http://www.observer.com/2011/culture/blake-butler-and-what-happens-when-novelist-lives-internet" target="_">Profile of myself & HTMLGiant & <span style="font-style:italic;">There is No Year</span> at the NY Observer</a>: concerning David Lynch, internet machines, ego blur, and getting shit done<br /><br /><a href="http://www.dzancbooks.org/the-collagist/2011/3/14/there-is-no-year-by-blake-butler-harper.html" target="_">Excerpt from <span style="font-style:italic;">There is No Year</span> at the Collagist</a>: three consecutive scenes from Part 2 of 4, re: the mother's relationship with a polymer egg and a lawnmower<br /><br /><a href="http://bombsite.com/articles/4956" target="_">Interview at Bomb</a> re: 4-night marathon reading of <span style="font-style:italic;">There is No Year</span> in NYC, the internet as place, metaphor as fartcity, etc.<br /><br /><a href="http://centerforfiction.org/magazine/hexagon-by-blake-butler/" target="_">q/a & new short text "Hexagon" @ The Center for Fiction's The Literarian</a>: a recursive piece concerning fornication, hibernation, wanting, pig babies, ass ends of the universe(s), etc. (connected in some way to this other short piece published earlier this year at Guernica, <a href="http://www.guernicamag.com/fiction/2207/butler_12_15_10/" target="_">"I do love god"</a><br /><br />+ + +<br /><br />Also to announce, my 4th book, a nonfiction work about sleep and insomnia, titled <span style="font-style:italic;">Nothing</span>, is slated for release this November.BLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-7856104425163517702011-02-28T17:34:00.002-05:002011-02-28T17:34:45.458-05:00No Year Prelease NYC marathon events<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-m1CvN7Al3cY/TWwi9x2U4_I/AAAAAAAAAYI/3WdPFJskzBk/s1600/-1.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 234px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-m1CvN7Al3cY/TWwi9x2U4_I/AAAAAAAAAYI/3WdPFJskzBk/s400/-1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578872483153765362" /></a>BLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-76305017942297803322011-02-18T13:08:00.001-05:002011-02-18T13:08:32.676-05:00"Are you in there?" "In where." "In you." [shakes head no] "Where are you then?" "I don't know." "Where would you like to be?" "I don't give a shit." "What would make you happy?" "I don't know." [drinks V8]BLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-66671979843654754522011-01-31T14:03:00.002-05:002011-01-31T14:10:29.852-05:00There is No Year reviewed by PW, Kirkus, Library Journal3 nice reviews from nice places seems nice<br /><br /><img src="http://www.harpercollinscatalogs.com/TR/vlarge/9780061997426_0_Cover.jpg"><br /><br /><br />from Publishers Weekly:<br /><br />Butler's inventive third book is dedicated "For no one" and begins with an eerie prologue about the saturation of the world with a damaging light. Suitably forewarned, the reader is introduced to an unexceptional no-name family. All should be idyllic in their newly purchased home, but they are shadowed by an unwelcome "copy family." In the face of the copy mother, the mother sees her heretofore unrealized deterioration. Things only get worse as the father forgets how to get home from work; the mother starts hiding in the closet, plagued by an omnipresent egg; while the son gets a female "special friend" and receives a mysterious package containing photos of dead celebrities. The territory of domestic disillusion and postmodern dystopia is familiar from other tales, but Butler's an endlessly surprising, funny, and subversive writer. This subversion extends to the book's design: very short titled chapters with an abundance of white space. Not so much a novel as a literary tapestry, the book's eight parts are separated by blank gray pages. To Butler (Scorch Atlas), everything in the world, even the physical world, is gray and ever-changing, and potentially menacing. (Apr.) <br /><br /><br />from Kirkus:<br /><br />A family lives in a house in which strange things start to happen (or—it’s a new novel by Blake Butler).<br /><br />Love him, hate him or feign indifference: There’s really no other way to react to the work of writer/postmodernist/multi-hyphenate Butler (Ever, 2009, etc). For those who like their prose fresh out of a cleaner and more traditional wellspring, Blake’s writing can prove tedious at best and arduous at worst. But for those who lean toward writing that is more visceral, taxing or outright demanding of the reader, this might be the right cup of tea—see Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves (2000), to which this novel owes some debt. The book concerns a family of doppelgängers so featureless that Butler doesn’t bother to give them names (or more accurately, likely purposefully washes them out to their elementary characteristics). So, the father, the mother and the son live in a house, just like the carbon copy father, mother and son had done before them. The father stares at a computer screen. The mother stares at her lined face in mirrors and thinks protective thoughts about her son, who suffers from a disease that nearly ended his life. The son goes to school, makes a friend and watches television with his family. It’s all presented in hushed, monochrome language that gives the whole enterprise a sense of menace from the beginning, even before Butler introduces the father’s paranoia that things in the house are changing without his knowledge. And then things do start changing.<br /><br />A gruesome slice of familial oddity that demonstrates its author’s versatility.<br /><br /><br />from Library Journal:<br /><br />Butler keeps the reader guessing in his latest novel. A family moves into a house where another family lives—a lifeless, unseeing copy of the family. The family goes through individual psychological and paranormal experiences that make one wonder about the origins of the family’s demise—Is it the son’s carefully mentioned past disease? Some metaphysical demon in the son’s subconscious? Or does the newly purchased house cloak discontented poltergeists? Whatever the cause, each family member endures a private psychological hell that is disturbing in its authenticity. VERDICT This artfully crafted, stunning piece of nontraditional literature is recommended for contemporary literature fans looking for something out of the ordinary. Butler integrates unusual elements into his novel, such as interview-style monologs and in later chapters poetry-like stanzas. Also recommended for students of literature, psychology, and philosophy, as the distinctive writing style and creative insight into the minds of one family deserve analysis. [Eight-city tour.]—Jennifer Funk, Southwestern Illinois Coll. Lib., BellevilleBLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-58343410590298771212011-01-12T21:27:00.001-05:002011-01-12T21:27:49.036-05:00"When the notes were all burned, <span style="font-style:italic;">all that writing</span>, as Franz expressed himself, he, Wertheimer, called up Salzburg and ordered the piano and Franz distinctly recalled that during this telephone call his master kept insisting that they send <span style="font-style:italic;">a completely worthless, a horribly untuned grand piano</span> to Traich. <span style="font-style:italic;">A completely worthless instrument, a horribly untuned instrument</span>, Wertheimer is supposed to have repeated over and over on the phone, said Franz."BLAKE BUTLERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01087017442473579674noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1256348635404703468.post-23388851830941351572011-01-03T12:14:00.001-05:002011-01-03T12:15:41.369-05:00year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br />year<br 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