Monthly Archives: November 2023

I’ve been hearing friends praise Fosse for awhile, so when he won the Nobel I was like OK FINE, I’LL READ HIM. I wasn’t quite willing to tackle Septology, but discovered this 45-page option and thought, well, I can devote a morning to this. Joke’s on me, it took me a month to read. There’sContinueContinue reading “Aliss at the Fire, Jon Fosse, tr. Damion Searls”

I don’t actually know Lydia Kiesling personally (I follow her on twitter), but I sort of feel like I do. I’m a little creeped out sometimes by the resemblances between us. When her first book, Golden State, came out, several people recommended it to me, saying that it almost sounded like I had written it.ContinueContinue reading “Mobility, Lydia Kiesling”

I honestly thought that I had first read this in grad school, around the time when I was first being introduced to the idea of uneven development and clashing belief systems (ie, an ostensibly “obsolete” or “primitive” belief that resurfaces, or persists, in a “modern” context) and to the translatability of tropes from westerns intoContinueContinue reading “The Undertaking of Lily Chen, Danica Novgorodoff”