william gaddis
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The Reader’s Role in Experimental Fiction
In the wilds of experimental fiction, the reader is not merely a passive recipient of story…
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Steven Moore’s List of the Most Impressive Books of 2021
It’s been heartening to see the reaction to Permanent Earthquake, which was released this summer. But…
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El Cuaderno Perdido Review
Here is a rough translation of the opening of Facundo Melillo’s review of El Cuaderno Perdido.…
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The Lost Scrapbook – Goodreads Review
“For a book that has no discernible narrator and a multitude of anecdotal scenes which often…
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The State of the Evan Dara Affinity
A notification from WordPress reminded me that this quixotic, Google-averse site turned 1 last month, with…
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Postscript on Dara and Gaddis
Last month, I sketched out the case that Manuel Puig may have had more to do…
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The Embrace of Influence
In the 22 years since Evan Dara published his first novel, he has granted no interviews…
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Satirizing Modernism
Emmett Stinson’s new book, Satirizing Modernism: Aesthetic Autonomy, Romanticism, and the Avant-Garde, comes out in June, and…
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Counterevidence
Earlier this year, I happened upon the audiobook of William Gaddis’s JR, a 37-hour tour de…
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Against Readability?
Last week, Ben Roth published an essay on The Millions entitled “Against Readability,” which was provocative…
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