Daniel Davis Wood

Now at Bluesky: Novelist, essayist, editor, publisher.

[Daniel Davis Wood @danieldaviswood]

New year seems like a good time to start fresh, so I'm signing off Twitter/X and moving to Bluesky. You can find me at the same handle. I've tried to rebuild thing over there and follow mutuals, but might've missed a few. I'll follow back any reconnections though.

[Daniel Davis Wood @danieldaviswood]

@tbarson49 @ahistoryinart …and the Will Maloney shirt also appears in Roberts’ ‘Shearing the Rams’. Front and centre:

[Daniel Davis Wood @danieldaviswood]

@tbarson49 @ahistoryinart Russell studied with his fellow Australian, Tom Roberts, at the Slade School of Art in London, under Alphonse Legros. Roberts went back to Australia and basically became Australia’s national painter: eg. he painted the opening of the parliament…

[Daniel Davis Wood @danieldaviswood]

@tdwoodhead @bernardtjoy Yeah, definitely. It’s a big achievement, though not equal to Flights. Other titles come to mind: Nicola Barker’s Darkmans (among other long books) and Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria and Praiseworthy, both of which took the MFLA in Australia. If not over 700pp, they’re pushing it.

[Daniel Davis Wood @danieldaviswood]

@bernardtjoy Flip the gendered angle on this: there’s a type of fragmented and domestically focused fiction that is written mostly by women (Nelson, Manguso, Offill, etc.) and its high profile just makes it feel like longer books are a male phenomenon?

[Daniel Davis Wood @danieldaviswood]

@bernardtjoy I know that’s not a qualitative judgment. I’d say only a couple of those are real achievements. But they stand with others from further back: The Golden Notebook and Black Lamb, Grey Falcon (maybe only partially a novel).

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

The Paris Review mourns the loss of John Barth (1930-2024). In memory of his life and work, we’ve unlocked his Art of Fiction interview with George Plimpton from our archive.

https://t.co/yePz6yW2zZ

[Daniel Davis Wood @danieldaviswood]

@beyondzeropod @Fl0atingSign @aliner @Greg_Gerke @thisissplice It should reach you any day now.

[Daniel Davis Wood @danieldaviswood]

@aliner @thisissplice @Fl0atingSign @beyondzeropod @Greg_Gerke This is exactly right and it’s one of the qualities I love most about the book. There’s nothing secondhand about the language (in fact there’s only scorn for received expression, pro forma behaviour) so every line is a battle for a singular way of saying things.

[Daniel Davis Wood @danieldaviswood]

@BooksOSubstance @TLiterarian Yes, and in particular the last three essays in that book will do the job—they’re almost a three-part manifesto. Add to those ‘The Sentence Seeks Its Form’ (from A TEMPLE OF TEXTS) and you’ll have all the key components.

[Daniel Davis Wood @danieldaviswood]

@beyondzeropod @EmmettStinson @ddillingworth @thebooksdesk I’m not aware of any new work. I only know that although his author bio suggests he studied in Paris for a year in 2012, he was actually living there for a while (or so I heard) post-DR but pre-Covid, ca. 2016-2018.

[Daniel Davis Wood @danieldaviswood]

Submissions still open through January...

[3:AM Magazine @3ammagazine]

Fiction Submissions: Open Until January 31 https://t.co/wqMiSuuXX2

[3:AM Magazine @3ammagazine]

Fiction Submissions: Open Until January 31 https://t.co/wqMiSuuXX2

[Zoë Meager @ZoeMeager]

A close-to-my-heart piece published in @3ammagazine and the treat of being edited by the excellent @danieldaviswood 🍀 thank you thank you!

[Daniel Davis Wood @danieldaviswood]

@3ammagazine @joebedford_uk @Emily__Beee @ZoeMeager And then if you want to laugh off the insidiousness with a bit of slapstick absurdism—of the bloody kind, true carnage—check out 'Cake Genius' from @mickconley, a timely treat for all would-be Star Bakers now that #GBBO is back on the air: https://t.co/0GFtZoVIT4

[Daniel Davis Wood @danieldaviswood]

Like apparently almost everyone, I've not been much on this site (whatever it's called) throughout 2023. But I've also had the enormous privilege of editing fiction for @3ammagazine since the start of the year and there's a lot of work over there that deserves its readers...

[Daniel Davis Wood @danieldaviswood]

@3ammagazine @joebedford_uk @Emily__Beee For something closer to surrealism, but no less insidious, @ZoeMeager's 'Local Bones' is the one to check out—a microfiction, fresh this week from Aotearoa, with imagery to haunt your dreams: https://t.co/edCw7wOlgH