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Favorite authorsJohn Ashbery, Donald Barthelme, Gianfranco Baruchello, Elizabeth Bishop, Jane Bowles, Michel Butor, Marcel Duchamp, Marguerite Duras, William Gaddis, Julien Gracq, Susan Howe, Franz Kafka, Heinrich von Kleist, Michel Leiris, James McCourt, Joseph McElroy, Herman Melville, Paul Metcalf, Pamela Moore, Robert Musil, Gérard de Nerval, Georges Perec, Marcel Proust, Raymond Roussel, Gertrude Stein, Robert Walser, William S. Wilson (Shared favorites)

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Currently readingDon Renato: An Ideal Content (An Historical Romance) by Frederick Rolfe
Georges Perec: A Life in Words : A Biography by David Bellos
Five Novels by Ronald Firbank
George Mills by Stanley Elkin
The Loop by Jacques Roubaud
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posted by slickdpdx at 10:27 am (EST) on Dec 2, 2010

Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries. I haven't been on librarything for a while and just noticed the comment, then realized that I've been reading your weblog for at least a couple of months (high praise, as I usually read a weblog for a few days, then don't get back to it:)

posted by hthr at 7:04 pm (EST) on Nov 27, 2010

Hi, thanks for the note. Yes, I know about the Duchamp reference (I'm an art historian). But is that really what's going on there? I just feel that Bolano wrote a tremendous amount, at speed, and sometimes he relied on the hope that even fragments would have interesting resonance. (A romantic notion, from Novalis, I think.)

posted by JimElkins at 12:59 pm (EST) on Sep 6, 2010

How'd you get your hands on The Loop? I would sell moderately important body parts to have it in mine before May.

posted by dyoneo at 12:03 pm (EST) on Jan 31, 2009

Hey Dan -- interestingly enough, I was being prodded towards a bio of Guy from various quarters (perhaps your little bird?), but this spring discovered, by way of being asked to sit on an MLA panel on new biographies of modernist writers, that Andre Furlani seems to be at work on such a book already. Phew! I'm not sure my career -- my marriage, my nervous system -- could stand doing another biography of a deeply-learned-but-publicly-obscure complex writer! But I am scheduled to write a biggish essay on Guy's work year after next, so stay tuned.

posted by m.scroggins at 1:40 pm (EST) on Aug 22, 2008

I never read the Ed Park article, but I printed it out and started reading it. Sad stories about lost people always interest me

posted by nyrbclassics at 12:11 pm (EST) on Jul 19, 2008

you turned up when I was searching Daisy Ashford's Young Visitors. Check out the nyrb group on librarything: http://www.librarything.com/groups/newyorkreviewbooks#forums.

Sorry for the cyberstalk by the way!

posted by nyrbclassics at 11:58 am (EST) on Jul 8, 2008