I have complete control over my reading of words, just not the things they make me see. pic.twitter.com/h80D4pAjei
— Des Lewis (@DF_Lewis) February 12, 2021
A Fearless Faith in Fiction
Des, you have made a new art form of your own, merging our responses to artistic works with *your* responses to the same. It’s a new religion, mate. It’s glorious.
— David Mathew
The Early Barth Factor
In Praise of Shadows
Massimo Carlotto DEATH’S DARK ABYSS
Massimo Carlotto DEATH’S DARK ABYSS Translated from the Italian
by Lawrence Venuti
2004
When I read this book, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…
Unconnected and Mutable
the narcissus variations – Damian Murphy
MOUNT ABRAXAS PRESS MMXXI (my previous reviews of this publisher HERE)
My previous reviews of Damian Murphy: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/damian-murphy/
When I read this book, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…
Doorgrave to the Bittersea
Doorgrave to the Bittersea Mark Howard Jones
“; his so-called life, the shell he inhabited that now passed for a life.”
Razor sharp, scrying lens, the woman he once loved buried and now seen askew migraine, poetic prose transcendence…
I can only retweet my tweet from earlier this morning, tweeted before reading this story; it felt almost as if all the story’s elements had already inspired me before my actually reading it! And its gestalt was already a ready-made.
“As a child, the sand had always infuriated and delighted him as it slid away under his soft shoes, his small feet. A million, million tiny creatures crushed to pieces and thrown upon the shore for his childish delight.”
My previous review of this author: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2014/01/02/delicate-toxins/#comment-1550
Today’s masked walk…
“the spell of the wilderness angel”
“the spell of the wilderness angel”
— Austin Wright (from ‘Tony & Susan’ 1993)
As quoted in my review this day – https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2021/02/05/tony-susan-by-austin-wright/
The Sot-Weed Factor – John Barth
A self-defining read for me in the 1960s, and I now intend to reread it and submit it to my #GestaltRealTimeReviewing…
And when I do, my comments will appear in the comment stream below…
My other reviews of older or classic books: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/reviews-of-older-books/
