kernel23📚

worshipping the written word

[Will Self @wself]

https://t.co/Z26gh6zZKs

[Matt Bucher @mattbucher]

https://t.co/CmgpVJpYV2

[SwR @SouthwestReview]

“Mónica Ojeda writes like the sentences are escaping from the fractured earth after disaster.”

@ElsbyCharlene reviews Mónica Ojeda's ELECTRIC SHAMANS AT THE FESTIVAL OF THE SUN (tr. Sarah Booker), out now via Coffee House Press 💥

https://t.co/ngaVM2BHml

[Screaming Reverberations @ScreamingRevPod]

Pynchon, Gilligan's Island, and Edwin Pauley: 🧵🧵🧵
Pynchon's had a running obsession with Gilligan's Island ever since the show went on the air, referencing the show multiple times, both directly&indirectly. We may have finally found a clue as to why (aside from tube-addiction)

[Rob @darwin8u]

Some of the best notes in the Exegesis are supplied by a small handful of scholars like Jeffrey J Kripal (scholar of religion at Rice) who has analyzed PKD as a key figure in modern "high weirdness," gnosticism, & the intersection of science fiction with mystical experience.

[kernel23📚 @kernel232]

@AlexMaskill @BarryPierce Solenoid paperback is 640 pages, so maybe kindle pages are bit shorter? I’m asking cause i’ve never used kindle, but in any case no matter page count it’s the same book, so 16 hours 640 pages is 40 pages per hour..

[Krapp's Last Vape @SatireRedacted]

Happy Anniversary! On this most pranksterish of days, it is my honor to share with you my discussion with returning Moral Minority guest, @fowlinghantod , on that discourse-fueling, brodernist-avant-la-lettre classic—Infinite Jest. Patreon link in bio and links to follow.

[kernel23📚 @kernel232]

@BarryPierce I’d say more like 7-10 hours. Average length 300 pages, 30-40 pages per hour if not rushing through but trying to appreciate the prose ? Of course, could be people consider 150-180 pages average

[Daniel Green @greenlitcrit]

In order to make my Sorrentino book as widely accessible as possible, I have made it available in its entirely on this website. Looking for interested readers, not book sales. https://t.co/roOkPu1pqG

[Max Lawton @maxdaniellawton]

All I know is that INFINITE JEST is the best American novel of the last 50 years, is an eternal work of art with unbelievable insight into the human condition and modernity, and that to be able to write such a book is a divine boon, a blessing—hell, even reading it feels lucky!

[kernel23📚 @kernel232]

@benshotonfilm @timpersonn @Variety Ok, now he gets to ruin underworld

[kernel23📚 @kernel232]

@Harihar74267965 @zaaaarbi All the best stuff’s missing

[kernel23📚 @kernel232]

@sahiljain22 One of the very few great contemporary sci fi novels

[kernel23📚 @kernel232]

@SmaragdinaVisio Wasn’t fossil angels supposed to be getting the Fulgur treatment? Vaguely remember them mentioning smthng in a mail-out ages ago

[kernel23📚 @kernel232]

Where does one get the dalkey archive armchair? @Dalkey_Archive

[Art Deco SJ @SonjaJo82306956]

ART DECO ARMCHAIRS, 1920s-1940s
These examples are distinguished by bold, sculptural wooden arm supports.Massive side panels define their dramatic silhouettes, showcasing the era’s love of strong geometry and the expressive use of wood as both structure and decoration.
collage SJ

[kernel23📚 @kernel232]

@AvnerLandes Read it ages ago - while enjoyable i felt it tried too hard to be postmodern, with all the postmodernish stuff feeling like gimmicks instead of serving the narrative

[Damian Kelleher @damiankelleher]

An absolute giant had died. RIP to a true great

[kernel23📚 @kernel232]

@_motherslug @sahiljain22 Cool, I’m getting one ;)