Writer @sarabandebooks, @UofMPress, etc. | Kentucky Colonel | Honorary Steamboat Captain | Bassman: Snarlin’ Yarns | Ops: moi.
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Ryan Ridge retweeted
has anyone connected You Can See Everything to Jeff Koons? Both are all about making tons of money off of satirizing the gross commercialization of their own art forms and seeming super-cool while doing so -- good work if you can get it
Swing and a miss…
yes, it's interesting: the more you read of experimental literature, the less emotionally engaged you are; reading the Naturalists, with their (somewhat) plodding monochromatic prose, you can see that this is "real life" in its aching banality as, for all its stylistic bravado, novels like "Lolita" & "Pale Fire" are performative & dazzling.
Ryan Ridge retweeted
I’ve written before about Wendell Berry’s publishing deals, which haven’t aligned with his values for quite a while. Catapult’s decision to dissolve rather than deal with unionized employees may create a window for something worthier. We'll see. johnbyronkuhner.substack.com…
@gariellelutz is the greatest. No contest. Oddly, Elroy might be runner up.
Ryan Ridge retweeted
Since we can assume all that's published & accessible in public records will be fed into & misappropriated by AI, why not promote a new esoteric literature shared only among an elect sect, w/ access protected by extreme safeguards, preserved in non-digital writing or only memory?
Fixed it: "The Fountainhead is so dense..."
"The Fountainhead “is so dense and complex,” marvels Brad Pitt, “it would have to be a six-hour movie.” (The 1949 film version already has a running time of two hours.) Christina Ricci claims that The Fountainhead is her favorite book because it taught her that “you're not a bad person if you don't love everyone.” Rob Lowe boasts that Atlas Shrugged is “a stupendous achievement, and I just adore it.” And any boyfriend of Eva Mendes, the actress says, “has to be an Ayn Rand fan.”" thenation.com/article/archiv…
Ryan Ridge retweeted
Is Nickleback overrated? What a question. Haha. They actually dropped some pretty heavy riffs at the Olympics! Neil Young took gold though.
Before he took the stage, he lifted weights for half an hour so he could belt this one at what he called “peak blood level.”
Also: Matt Bell’s ‘Refuse to be Done,’ Flannery O’Connor’s, ‘Mystery and Manners,’ Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘Steering the Craft,’ and Ben Percy’s ‘Thrill Me.’ All solid.
Ryan Ridge retweeted
don't really care about the nobel, but i've been spiritually rooting for @gariellelutz every year since she showed up in the official odds.
Oh, he’s still angry. Dude is absolutely livid about those hack writers and their—pardon my French—cliches.
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"She is sui generis, one of our greatest living novelists."
📌ICYMI, an interview w/ Nancy Lemann from our summer issue
southwestreview.com/volume-1…
