Preparing myself against the day
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"In short, A Table for Fortune is a book about everything Vollmann has previously written." @TheSpectator
"A Table for Fortune is a deeply ambitious, arguably heroic epic." @AltaJournal
“[A] heroic, fascinating and important work." @nytimes
Finally got my hands on A Table for Fortune. First 30 pages: way funnier than I expected. I’m sure it can only go darker from here
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The best movie of the year, YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING, is best paired with Orson Welles’ F for Fake, which also blurs the lines of documentary/narrative filmmaking.
Both films center around their subject as much as they do their director…
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It’s refreshing to see this kind of pretension once in a while
"You get at most one cliché per book."
Jonathan Franzen doesn't finish most books people send him. He reads until the second cliché, then stops.
"People send me a galley of a book that's coming out. I read along until I get to the second cliché, and I say, thank you."
"They tell me this is not an attentive writer. Aren't you aware that that's a cliché? Didn't it occur to you to stop and take 20 minutes to find a better phrasing than that?"
"You can also have borrowed feelings, borrowed ideas, borrowed situations. Sentiment can be clichéd, or unearned."
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When the reading gets desperate I eye my unread Pynchon novels on my shelf like a strung out junkie
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