I’d never read Flannery O’Connor until lockdown. I’d seen her listed as one of the outstanding writers of the twentieth century, specifically in terms of her short stories. I had time on my hands, so I bought her collected works.
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Flannery O’Connor Hates You
Posted in Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory with tags Dante, Flannery O'Connor, Franz Kafka, Huberty Selby Junior, Inferno, The Ramones, Virgil on March 20, 2021 by Jarrod Boyle
A Review of a Book I Have Only Half-Finished
Posted in Reading with tags Alice in Wonderland, All the Pretty Horses, Cat's Eye, Cormac McCarthy, Dance Dance Dance, Dolphin Hotel, Franz Kafka, Haruki Murakami, K, Margaret Atwood, The Sheep Man on November 11, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
Haruki Murikami’s Dance Dance Dance has one of the best first pages I have read, but I’m still going to give it away.
The novel opens as follows: Continue reading
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Considering the Lobster
Posted in Reading with tags Andre Agassi, David Foster Wallace, Franz Kafka, John McCain, Malcolm Knox, Sam De Brito, Tracy Austin on April 26, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle“David Foster Wallace is sui generis on a stick.”
– Robert McCrum, Observer
“He’s so modern he’s in a different time-space continuum from the rest of us. Goddamn him.”
– Zadie Smith
David Foster Wallace’s essay on Franz Kafka entitled, ‘Some Remarks on Kafka’s Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed’, from the book Consider the Lobster is probably the best thing I have read all year. Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 