Claire

[Claire @ClaireAnnaO]

This incredible gem is never fully unpacked

[Claire @ClaireAnnaO]

Unfortunately found this deeply underwhelming. It felt like reading a white teenager’s diary entries with excruciating detail paid to mundanities

[gregory howard @g_e_howard]

GenX/elder millennial lit Twitter reading the It girl essay

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

"If you don’t succeed in articulating your suffering in a well-defined structure, you’re fucked. Suffering will eat you alive from the inside out until you have had time to write down whatever it is.

Structure is the only way to avoid suicide. And suicide solves nothing. Imagine if Baudelaire had succeeded in his suicide attempt when he was twenty-four.

Believe in structure. Believe in the old metrical forms, as well. Versification is a powerful tool for liberating the inner life..."

--Michel Houellebecq

[Claire @ClaireAnnaO]

#parableofthesower by #octaviabutler was written only 15 years before #cormacmcarthy #theroad. Interesting to compare the two novels, both their writing style and their vision.

[Claire @ClaireAnnaO]

#angelacarter #nightsatthecircus

[Claire @ClaireAnnaO]

Surprised I had not heard of this book. Hidden gem. #johnwilliams #stoner

[Claire @ClaireAnnaO]

Found this floating around and thought it funny

[Claire @ClaireAnnaO]

First time I’ve read Vonnegut as an adult #sirensoftitan #kurtvonnegut

[Claire @ClaireAnnaO]

The Mind-Bending Fiction of Mircea Cărtărescu https://t.co/QQZzripc62

[Claire @ClaireAnnaO]

@nonsuchbook @nyrbclassics Lonesome Dove is excellent!

[Claire @ClaireAnnaO]

Rereading the first one so I can do the trilogy. First one as bitterly amusing as I remember #virginiedespentes #despentes #vernonsubutex

[Claire @ClaireAnnaO]

Despite a slight lurching feel to the story arc, this is by far the most imaginative scope I’ve encountered in a long time.

[Claire @ClaireAnnaO]

I’ve missed narrative journalism, I should read it more often.

[Claire @ClaireAnnaO]

@DrGrimmTweets #2. His children’s books are incredible

[Claire @ClaireAnnaO]

Anyone join #Mastodon? It says I can find the people I follow on Twitter but I don’t see anyone there. I’m on https://t.co/raksEK0VnB because I’m trying to keep this a literary social

[Claire @ClaireAnnaO]

#janeausten before and after editing of enthusiastic punctuation 😦. Found this in #literaryreview November 2022, article by #florencehazrat

[Claire @ClaireAnnaO]

It may be too ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’ for modern tastes but the real high/low of this brilliant, effervescent author is in his unmatched facility for simile and metaphor. A traditional, classic education meets the delightful color of slang #pgwodehouse #jeeves #wooster

[Claire @ClaireAnnaO]

I am not used to surrealist literature of this nature and was grateful for the reviews and discussion of @ddillingworth @TheUntranslated and @wastemailing. I highly recommend anyone who reads Solenoid to use these to help gain footing 🙂

[Claire @ClaireAnnaO]

As I wander around this brilliant, hallucinatory, psychic Bildungsroman, it occurs to me to link the uncanny Other Creatures (insects, children, aliens): their similarities make me wonder if they would occupy the same fourth dimensional existence #solenoid

[Claire @ClaireAnnaO]

@wastemailing @TheUntranslated @deepvellumbooks @DeepVellum @Dalkey_Archive @willevans @maxdaniellawton Finally got around to finishing this fantastic book and immediately watched your discussion. I’m particularly grateful for the links to books I would never have considered, such as Flatlands. Great work! Thank you!