S.C. Ferguson

writer

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Bought myself some Boxing Day gifts.

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#manofletters

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Tapas time bitch!

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@vauhinivara John Edgar Wideman comes to mind

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@afrofatalism This idiotic “as” is a pretentious emailer’s best friend 😂

[lake micah @afrofatalism]

anyway my pet peeve is seeing “as” used in its conjunctive form, to mean something like “because.” e.g., “i baked mille-feuille as i recall how you like it so,” or, “his campaign against me will fail, as i have long anticipated it.” what’s happening there?! so ungainly. avoid it

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Astounded by the virtuosity, sophistication, and dry-as-hell comedy of Krasz’s “Herman: The Death of a Craft”

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There's a certain brand of sentence-fetish prose-writing -- never very popular but high in its prestige -- that brings precision to the very edge of nauseating preciousness.

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GODDAMMIT I'M GOOD

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The Last Wolf / Herman

Reminds me of Bernhard’s dyspeptic pessimism and the doomy gothic stakes-is-high intensity of Bolaño

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Reading Krasznohorkai for the first time

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Hills like white elephants party

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@KhlestakovIvan @johnstonglenn He was a fine tenor, a FINE TENOR!!!

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@kylerseibel Not against them enough not to submit to them recently

(Does that make sense?)

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@BootStar222 It’s funny in a relentless way that may or may not be “one-note” but is working for me at the moment. Also dig the maximalist grotesquerie of his descriptions.

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The classical swagger of Joe Heller’s ironies 🤗

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@EleventhVolume It has to be Ulysses. Reading JR or IJ without first having read Ulysses seems misguided, almost perverse!!$!&$

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@maxdaniellawton A wild one. Mommy issues BIG time!

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“Curdled”

A verb-metaphor so trite and overused in “contemporary literary fiction” that it should now be deemed dead and unusable