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Jeff’s 2023 Year in Books
Take a look at Jeff’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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Jeff Jackson
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Vladimir Nabokov, Agota Kristof, Don DeLillo, Cortazar Julio, Dennis C
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Mira Corpora
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2013
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Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel
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Novi Sad
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2016
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Topograph: New Writing from the Carolinas and the Landscape Beyond
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"November 2024 reread:
On second thought, my favorite line may be spoken by the erstwhile Watt, however brief his reappearance in M&C: “Fuck life!” ________________ You know that Kids in the Hall sketch with Jerry and Jerry, the Sizzler Sisters? McDonald " Read more of this review » |
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"Clearly, Hammett is a legend. The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key are both great, but I’d rate the title piece of this collection, a short novella of 40 pages, just as highly. It’s got everything: it’s painstakingly and impeccably written, it’s fast"
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What Are We Reading? 5 April 2021
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“Literature has to remain frustrating — to withhold something, remain incomplete — or it’s not literature anymore, but rather entertainment, edification or interpretation. That’s literature’s USP: staying unresolved, keeping its most vital messages unspoken, creating a zone of noise where everything and nothing is said at the same time.”
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“So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.”
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“Art Is Not A Mirror - It Is A Hammer.”
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“What any experimental art is trying to get you to do is move beyond your preconceptions and your expectations regarding what should be happening, what's going to happen, what kinds of effects it should have, and enter a liminal state in which those things can be redefined in the way that the particular artist or piece of art is proposing.”
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“The true elitists in the literary world are the ones who have become annoyed by literary ambition in any form, who have converted the very meaning of ambition so totally that it now registers as an act of disdain, a hostility to the poor common reader, who should never be asked to do anything that might lead to a pulled muscle. (What a relief to be told there's no need to bother with a book that might seem thorny, or abstract, or unusual.) The elitists are the ones who become angry when it is suggested to them that a book with low sales might actually deserve a prize (...) and readers were assured that the low sales figures for some of the titles could only mean that the books had failed our culture's single meaningful literary test.”
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Completists' Club
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A group for those attempting to complete, or who have completed, the canons of their favourite writers. Share your canon-wide knowledge and opinion wi ...more
Listomania
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I have not yet found anywhere on GoodReads for people to post their booklists! (Listopia doesn't count as they are not personal lists, but community o ...more
The BURIED Book Club
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TODAY BOOKS ARE NOT BURNED. THEY ARE BURIED. WE SHALL UNEARTH THEM.
(In) Gravity's Rainbow(s)
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Stephen M. has decided to read Gravity's Rainbow this summer. I think we should join him. ...more
Bleak House
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Members of Kindred Spirits and other interested GR members read Charles Dickens' Bleak House. The read will take place February 2013-April 2013, but t ...more
The GR Mixtape exchange service
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For those of you who wonder, as I do, if similar taste in books can translate to similar taste in music... This group is for posting mixtapes in a mo ...more
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May 17, 2015 07:33AM
Ah yes, Nabokov is my God too! Next stop, Cortazar :0)
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Agnieszka wrote: "Thank you very much for invitation, Jeff! Looking forward to discussing books with you ."Likewise! Looks like we have overlapping tastes and interests.
Thank you very much for invitation, Jeff! Looking forward to discussing books with you .
Samadrita wrote: "Thank you so much for the friend request, Jeff. I have seen wonderful reviews of your book written by some of our mutual friends. Really look forward to discussing books with you."Appreciate the kind words about my book. Looking forward to talking literature with you as well, Samadrita!
Thank you so much for the friend request, Jeff. I have seen wonderful reviews of your book written by some of our mutual friends. Really look forward to discussing books with you.
Praj wrote: "Thanks a lot, for the friend request! :D"Absolutely! Looking forward to your reviews.
Scribble wrote: "Happy New Year, Jeffrey - all the best for 2014!"Thanks - happy 2014 to you, Scribble!
Happy New Year, Jeffrey - all the best for 2014!
Thanks for the invite,Jeff! It is an honor indeed. Looking forward to reading your books and reviews!
Thanks Madeleine - looking forward to future bookish chats as well! Love that you just read "Wrinkle in Time." That was a favorite when I was young and makes me think it's time to revisit it soon. Plus "Omensetter's Luck" has been sitting on my shelf for years - got to pull it down soon.
Sweet can of corn, you weren't kidding about our similar literary tastes! I couldn't hit the "accept" button quickly enough. Thank you so much for the friend request and the kind words you sent to accompany it. I am so very much looking forward to getting to know you and chatting about all kinds of bookish things in the future.
Chance wrote: "Hey Jeff - thank you for the friendly invite. I look forward to reading your reviews!"Thanks for accepting. Likewise on the reviews!
Hey Jeff - thank you for the friendly invite. I look forward to reading your reviews!
Hi Jeff- Please consider reading/rating my new memoir The Astor Orphan, published by Harper Collins. Thanks, Alexandra
s.penkevich wrote: "Thank you for the friend request!"I've really enjoyed your reviews. Look forward to talking books with you!
Hi Jeff - looking forward to sharing book and reading ideas - Cheers Rich
OK, so I'm leafing through your reviews--what an amazing resource! I want to ask, David Markson: where should I start?Lee
Thanks for the compliment on the review of _A Void_--I just published a book myself and I would love feedback from someone as accomplished as yourself! (I wonder if you know my friend Brian Parks--NYC playwright outta Detroit?)Lee Foust
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Thanks for the friend request, Jeff! We definitely have a lot of books in common, so I look forward to interacting with you on the ol' Goodreads.
Jeff, how kind of you. Thank you for the friendship and I look forward to your thoughts and opinions on our favourite (and perhaps less than favourite) books.
Jeff wrote: "Thanks Kris! Looking forward to exchanges recs and reviews as well. For starters, I've been wanting to read "Heroines" and will be interested to hear how you like it."I'm glad to hear you're thinking of reading Heroines. I'm enjoying it so far -- it's interesting to see Zambreno's approach to weaving her biographical and literary criticism into her reflections on her own experiences. I've just stated Part Two, so I'm eager to see where she takes the book.
Thanks Kris! Looking forward to exchanges recs and reviews as well. For starters, I've been wanting to read "Heroines" and will be interested to hear how you like it.
Jeff, thank you so much for the friend request. Your review of Vertigo was excellent, and I agree we have similar taste. (Loving Sebald is an excellent start.) I'm looking forward to exchanging recommendations and reading more of your reviews. :)
Good sir. I think it might be time for you to add a photograph of yourself. Unless you do have a large tattoo of a question mark on your face, in which case I offer you my condolences.
