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About meEditor at online literary review Full Stop: http://www.full-stop.net

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Favorite authorsChris Adrian, Nicholson Baker, J. G. Ballard, Donald Barthelme, Elif Batuman, Samuel Beckett, Roberto Bolaño, Larry Brown, Paul Collins, Junot Díaz, Joan Didion, Jennifer Egan, William Faulkner, Joshua Ferris, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, Christopher Hitchens, John Hodgman, Richard Holmes, James Hynes, Denis Johnson, William Kennedy, Ivan Klima, Mark Leyner, Tao Lin, Robert Lowell, Gabriel García Márquez, Cormac McCarthy, Tom McCarthy, Ian McEwan, Steven Millhauser, David Mitchell, Lorrie Moore, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, V. S. Naipaul, Flannery O'Connor, Nathaniel Philbrick, Arthur Phillips, Charles Portis, Thomas Pynchon, Marilynne Robinson, George Saunders, Gary Shteyngart, Laurence Sterne, Wallace Stevens, Emma Straub, J. R. R. Tolkien, Wells Tower, Kurt Vonnegut, David Foster Wallace, William Carlos Williams, William Carlos Williams, Tobias Wolff, Gordon S. Wood, C. Vann Woodward, Virginia Woolf, Stephen Wright (Shared favorites)

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Shards: A Novel by Ismet Prcic

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The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard by J. G. Ballard

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The Complete Essays of Montaigne by Michel de Montaigne

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High Lonesome by Barry Hannah

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The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald

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The Sisters Brothers: A Novel by Patrick deWitt

But that is exciting! Do you know when you hope to go live? I used to help edit a website called The Elements of Style, which was arranged entirely according to the periodic table, but sadly it is no more (and, for the longest time, was replaced with a single picture of Daniel Day Lewis as John Proctor exclaiming "God is dead! And so is EOFS!"). I saw Tea Obreht on the 20 Under 40 thingamajig--her name is so enchanting! And I love tales about storytelling/the stories that we carry with us from our childhood. Definitely going on my list. I've heard good thing, too, about ZSW.

The Kalevala was amazing. I ended up writing several poems about various events in it (goldsmith constructing a golden bride without hands or feet, mother raking the entrails of her son from the water, etc.). Sometimes it was hilarious; others: heartbreaking. And for being so effing long, it was a pretty fast read.

I grew up in Manassas, but I'm going to school in Charlottesville now--a little ways from Kenbridge/Victoria. Still the same congressional district, though!

posted by thedharmabum51 at 1:50 pm (EST) on Jan 21, 2011

Indeed! Well. Right now I'm in the middle of the Kalevala, which is Finland's great epic. It has shaman battles and resurrection via sewing and magical beer from the Dead Land. Really all that you could ever ask for in an epic, haha. What are you reading these days?

posted by thedharmabum51 at 12:31 pm (EST) on Dec 15, 2010

hi alex shephard. you read a lot. thank god for librarything.com telling me, i would've never known by your gait.

posted by zehara at 3:12 pm (EST) on Jun 10, 2010