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The obvious answer is McSweeney's, although some of their pieces/authors can disappear a bit up their own asses. But there is a lot of great work in there, especially the earlier issues.
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Butt Frosted Cake posted:Rereading Gravity's Rainbow with that companion guide to catch all those sweet refs I didn't get the first time. Weisenburger? Oh man, you're in for a treat. It'll blow your drat mind how carefully TRP constructed the plot and timeline. Let us know how it goes...
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Not liking Vonnegut will immediately put someone into the "untrustworthy and probably dangerous" zone for me, even though he is far from my favorite author and I rarely re-read him. You get the sense he was about as good and decent a man as it is possible to be -- although admittedly I know little about his personal life (please don't ruin him for me if you know better).
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Earwicker posted:Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? That's a joke, son.
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ultrachrist posted:I read The Recognitions last month (my first Gaddis), and it was fine I guess. I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as the DFW-Pynchon-DeLillo trifecta. I wrote about it here but generally I found it enforcing an extremely repetitive point that is somewhat difficult to connect with nowadays. But of course the bar and party conversations were great. I laughed out loud often. Thanks for the link, I've been staring at Gaddis for a year or so now but haven't managed to get past the third chapter. quote:Also I have no idea what postermodernism truly means, find any explanation classified by authorial intent unconvincing and useless, and have no idea where it intersects with self-referential meta-fiction (Don Quixote part 2) or experiments in form, but Volume 3 of Danielewski's The Familiar series just came out and you might call that postmodern, maybe. I will be shocked if he makes it to Volume 26, but I'm thoroughly enjoying it. The story is engaging enough and what he does with imagery, typography, and space is enchanting. 26?!? I have all three so far and just began #1 yesterday. I had no idea he was claiming to plan 26. Maybe this isn't such a good thing to start reading until the year 2040 or whatever.
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