Ryan Napier

[Ryan Napier @ryanlnapier]

I'm pleased to tell you that I've written a novel called Nicely Done. It's a screwball comedy set in nineteenth-century Europe.

You can read an excerpt in @keep_planning:

https://t.co/eHdbJq95TD

[Ryan Napier @ryanlnapier]

@jamesamarcus Turn 180 degrees and you will see ee cummings's house.

[Ryan Napier @ryanlnapier]

There was a popular post earlier this week about Cusk and autobiography, but for me, what's always felt most contemporary about Cusk is her relentless need to be a victim, which Seghal expresses well here.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Cambridge socialist City Councilor @VoteJivan argues that solving the housing crisis means building more homes while fighting for affordability and tenant power. https://t.co/a28VVw6Yud

[Ryan Napier @ryanlnapier]

@unpaginated When I try to imagine unobjectionable uses of LLM writing in a novel, I think of how Sterne uses Burton, or how Wallace will descend into deadening passages of jargon. But I find myself skimming that stuff (as I'd probably do with similarly-used LLM writing).

[Ryan Napier @ryanlnapier]

@bartlebytaco They are all Graham Green protagonists

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

NEW ESSAY — Christine Jacobson’s “Typing for Love or Money”, on the neglected efforts of women like Theodora Bosanquet, Véra Nabokov, and Valerie Eliot, who — through their work as typists and editors — had a profound impact on modern literature: https://t.co/kfoweusJ7c

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

"I identify with the main character" no. Characters are a fantasy propagated by big realism to distract you from the novel's form. Wake up

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

Do people getting married not read Middlemarch, or Daniel Deronda, or The Portrait of a Lady? It never, never ends well. Are marriages the sins of a literacy problem, a pride one, or a problem of an impoverished imagination?

[Matthew Spencer @unpaginated]

Any update on this?

[Ryan Napier @ryanlnapier]

@bartlebytaco Viral marketing for the new Pynchon getting very sophisticated

[Ryan Napier @ryanlnapier]

Have read two novels by millennials in the past few years that end with the protagonists becoming Airbnb proprietors. The passive income plot.

[Ryan Napier @ryanlnapier]

@bartlebytaco What We Talk About When We Talk About Them Shooting Piano Players

[Ryan Napier @ryanlnapier]

Got my copy of issue 23 of King Ludd's Rag, which has an excerpt from my novel Nicely Done:

https://t.co/IoplktXbZw

[david c. porter (read NTTN) @toomuchistrue]

new fiction in KEEP PLANNING today, an excerpt from Nicely Done, a forthcoming "screwball historical novel" which, if this sequence is anything to go off of, will be among the more genuinely funny books of its season

[Ryan Napier @ryanlnapier]

I'm pleased to tell you that I've written a novel called Nicely Done. It's a screwball comedy set in nineteenth-century Europe.

You can read an excerpt in @keep_planning:

https://t.co/eHdbJq95TD

[Ryan Napier @ryanlnapier]

If you want to read more, the first chapter is also out soon in the new issue of King Ludd's Rag (from Malarkey Books):

https://t.co/IoplktWE9Y

[Ryan Napier @ryanlnapier]

I'm pleased to tell you that I've written a novel called Nicely Done. It's a screwball comedy set in nineteenth-century Europe.

You can read an excerpt in @keep_planning:

https://t.co/eHdbJq95TD

[KEEP PLANNING (submissions open) @keep_planning]

#011 – "The Mazarin Egg Spoon" by @ryanlnapier https://t.co/2HUNCT2tHR

[Ryan Napier @ryanlnapier]

The way he puts "wearing thin" in quotation marks here is very late-period Henry James.

[BNO News @BNONews]

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