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Read Lynne Tillman’s Love Sentence!
Because Richard Nash has decided to embrace social media, you can now read Lynne Tillman’s new collection of stories, Someday This Will Be Funny free online. (Free version here, print version at Amazon here.)
But at the very least, you should all take 20 minutes and read “Love Sentence,” which may well be my favorite story out of the collection. It’s a beautiful little meditation on appropriation, the limits of language, and, yes love.
And it quotes Derrida saying this:
I can love the other only in the passion of this aphorism.
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Recommended Books DeLillo's major work before White Noise is probably his most underrated novel. Its all right here--the politics of paranoia, terrorism, the unnamable--set in an evocative, timeless Greece.
The most bizarre Abe novel I've yet read, which is indeed saying something. About a subclass of Japanese men who go around wearing boxes from the waist up (and then use them as domiciles in the evening), the book is also an experiment in perspective shifts, a highly unstable, metafictional first-person narrative, and an exploration of voyeurism, consumerism, and aberrant sexuality.
Charting the path to three gunshots--the one that killed filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, the one that disabled his Islamic extremist assassin, Mohammed Bouyeri, and the one that led to Vincent Van Gogh’s one hundred years earlier--Olsen tells three separate stories that resonate with one another on numerous levels: the logic of extremism, the role of the dissident in Dutch society, the limits of tolerance, the purpose of the artist, the feeling of the most important five minutes of your life. Read my interview with the author.
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A book that's an interview about the book you're supposedly holding in your hands. Creative, potent, and full of life. Just what metafiction should be. Read my post on it.
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The Novels of Kim Young-ha
Graphs, Maps, Trees
The Names by Don DeLillo (1982)
The Box Man by Kobo Abe (1973, English 1974)
Head in Flames by Lance Olsen (2009)
Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk (2006, English 2010)
The Weather Fifteen Years Ago by Wolf Haas (2006, English 2009)
Okay. So I ,finally, realized ‘Love Sentence’ also refers to her being sentenced, in a judicial sense, to suffering a departed love.
I can’t figure out to what ‘Paige Turner’ alludes.