Jonny M.

lover of long sentences/ modern & contemporary literature PhD researcher @UniOfYork, gratefully funded by @WRoCAH/ views mine alone

[J. R. Carpenter @jr_carpenter]

presenting SCORE, an online writing machine that writes and re-writes an infinite series of performance scores using language accrued through an ongoing performance writing and walking practice in the Yorkshire Dales. https://t.co/qKlvOwfJEF

[James Marcus @jamesamarcus]

At a certain point Peggy James complained to her uncle Henry James, then entering the deep thickets of his late style, that his work was too impenetrable. His response:

[Jonny M. @ActiveReading1]

@c_may_cm @bookclubdubstep As only McGahern can

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@c_may_cm @bookclubdubstep His final novel, That They May Face The Rising Sun, is the remedy

[Jonny M. @ActiveReading1]

@MarkDignam69 My Bloody Valentine

[Galley Beggar Press @GalleyBeggars]

The bingo has arrived, we’ve bought some champagne - now all we need is the 4th July (come quick!)

[Jonny M. @ActiveReading1]

@EleventhVolume Short novellas which require little commitment beyond an hour or two

[Jonny M. @ActiveReading1]

It's often the case that avant-garde literature sacrifices emotion for formal experimentation; not so in @IneluctableQuak's American Abductions (or Aphasia for that matter) which brim with the honesty of realism while bending the sentence past its conventional limitations

[Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts]

Finished! Just sent it to Mathias for review :)

[Jonny M. @ActiveReading1]

@Fondant_Lover That is such an amazing book - absolutely hilarious and totally compelling. Zone is a very challenging read for all sorts of reasons, and I adored Annual Banquet, but Compass is still my favourite I think! His two shorter novels are worth a read too

[Jonny M. @ActiveReading1]

@IneluctableQuak Does Ducks, Newbury count? Not ironic enough to be postmodern, too ironic to be postpostmodern? Is this postpostpostmodernism?

[Andrei @TheUntranslated]

Mircea Cărtărescu says in this interview that Penguin Random House is going to publish the translation of all the three volumes of Orbitor!

https://t.co/M0g4H2syon

[Jonny M. @ActiveReading1]

Been waiting on this one by @IneluctableQuak - can't wait to get started!

[Jonny M. @ActiveReading1]

@OctoberBooks I'm reading Miss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguite Young which is spectacular, and Laszlo Krasznahorkai's Sorrow and Destruction Beneath the Heavens, which is far far funnier than it sounds!

[Jonny M. @ActiveReading1]

@beyondzeropod In a Glass Darkly

[Jonny M. @ActiveReading1]

Somewhere between the abstractions of Borges and the romanticism of Alejandro Zambra, it's an exceptionally fractal and humane film - highly reccomended

[Jonny M. @ActiveReading1]

When I finished Trenque Lauquen, I was reminded of why I love slow cinema: the quotidian pushes against the formal constraints of narrative, which itself expands in unusual ways, until what we are left with is something between mythology and mundanity: real life

[Dublin Literary Award @DublinLitAward]

And the winner is... Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Sean Cotter! 🏆🥳

Congratulations to all involved in bringing this incredible story to life.

Solenoid was nominated by Octavian Goga, Cluj County Library and published by @deepvellum ✨

[Jonny M. @ActiveReading1]

@monkeelino @aliner Ah, very interesting thank you. I know that The Tunnel has been translated into German. Not that it matters hugely but I'd be interested to know if he'd come across it. I know the name is relatively common (tied to an occupation) but still, given the themes of Herscht it seems...

[Jonny M. @ActiveReading1]

There have always been thematic links between William H. Gass and Laszlo Krasznahorkai, but K's newest novel (the wonderful Herscht 07769) prominently features a character called Herr Köhler. Could be a coincidence, but does anyone know if they read one another?