What are you currently reading?

[Malloy]

my favorite pillar of a caste is "occupational hierarchy". these mother fuckers just can't bring themselves to use class as conceptual tool, huh

[Malloy]

you should just pick up some stuart hall, argo

[Malloy]

reading michael clune article in paris review. dude is so smart, i love him

[Malloy]

trag, you should read White Out, if you haven't already

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Malloy]

nope, by michael clune. this is the new foreword to the new edition, which is out later this month (I think)

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/202 ... -novocain/

[The Argonaut]

I'm not trag, but that was very good. I was on the edge of my seat for a while there

[Malloy]

thanks for reading it, asher. he's got a really great piece on the wire that i read ages ago. ill see if i still have it saved.

[BurtReynolds]

he made it through

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Rangi Guy]

Just started this - pretty good so far

[Simple Torture]

Burt loved it but also my FiL loved it, which is the most contradictory two-man fan base I could imagine

I just finished this--great reference to the Providence mafia at one point. McCarthy is a native Rhode Islander.

[BurtReynolds]

kinda tedious towards the end, but not bad.



Don't know if I'll finish this one. The characters are kinda dull. It's ok. I can see how it has been very influential.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. Really enjoying this one, but can't read more than a few pages today without getting sleepy

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

No. The book is fan fiction that came after the first movie.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Huh?

[BurtReynolds]

Are the Solaris films based on that book? Never knew it existed.

they are.

[Bammer]

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