Larry Francis

Novelist, expatriate, misanthrope, and founder of The Time & Place Prize literary competition

[Kombiz Lavasany @kombiz]

In Iowa, we are banning "Ulysses," "The Catcher in the Rye," and "The Color Purple." Honestly, if you are a kid and turning to Ulysses for titillation when the internet is everywhere, we should be giving you a medal and a full-ride scholarship to the Iowa Writers' Workshop

[Just Joyce @johnstonglenn]

Nadine Gordimer died OTD in 2014. She described Molly Bloom’s soliloquy as proof of the ability of one sex to understand and convey the inner workings of the other. "No woman was ever 'written' better by a woman writer. How did Joyce know? God knows how, and it doesn’t matter."

[John McCourt @mccourtitaly]

“The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes." RIP Milan Kundera.

[katy moukakou @princessekateri]

“When someone is young, he is not capable of conceiving of time as a circle, but thinks of it as a road leading forward to ever-new horizons; he does not yet sense that his life contains just a single theme.”

Milan Kundera, R. I. P
Immortality

[Larry Francis @LarryCFrancis]

@usasmitty Bad nights in the big cities.

[Larry Francis @LarryCFrancis]

@usasmitty Gas explosion. Right down the street from my son’s school. We are okay. Thanks.

[Fresh Lettuce @newLettuce]

[library]
hi do you have any books about when a guy is really mad at one specific whale

[Buddawiggi @MarkBuckawicki]

27 moons, imagine the lunacy

[Supes ♊🐈‍⬛ @usasmitty]

I must have been drunk. PBS app is on my phone lol

[Larry Francis @LarryCFrancis]

Attending to your tweet with fugitive interest.

[Buddawiggi @MarkBuckawicki]

No skills, it’s all luck

[Marly @VerbsRProudest]

I'm not saying you can't be a badass in reindeer pajamas. I'm just saying you really have to commit.

[Just Joyce @johnstonglenn]

Roberto Bolaño was born OTD in 1953. Brown University offers a course on Ulysses and The Savage Detectives.

[Buddawiggi @MarkBuckawicki]

One time I got so mad at capitalism I paid off all my credit cards

[Sam Skoronski @SamSkoronski]

Tax evasion should be called bracketeering.

[Μαρια Κιτρινη @greek_heanen]

Rearranged my thoughts, and now everything is too stuffy, cause the old ones refuse to go back in the closet

[Marly @VerbsRProudest]

Everyone in my family is stressed out right now. My brother was stressed he would forget something important & asked me to text & remind him today. I said I would but got worried I’d forget so I asked someone to remind me to remind my brother. That person asked someone else, etc

[Daz? @HomeProbably]

You can’t read every book but you can have a lot of fun trying.

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

If people turned into reactionaries, political assholes, after reading me, yes, that would stop me from writing, but not if they killed themselves.

- Marguerite Duras in an essay on Flaubert trans. by Baes and Ramadan