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| Clarice Lispector layers her slight complex novel, hardly 200 pages, The Besieged City with enough levels of wily and wiry speculative language and transitory personality observations to populate a Robbe-Grillet cluster narrative. People slide into t ...more | |
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| It’s impossible to overstate the distaste unleashed in my delicate sensibilities by John King’s brutal, cloying, class-warring White Trash. The locale is hard-man Britain. Immaculate, over-burdened and selfless modern maidens service and apologize fo ...more | |
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| This slight, for him, novel by prolix Hungarian provocateur László Krasznahorkai reverts to his stylistic overkill of cascading paragraphs and shifting narrations and interchanging reality sectors, a mélange that is so ripe for mockery that Krasznaho ...more | |
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| There was a time when I was afraid to be caught reading a book by Henry Miller. I grew up in a strict, Catholic Puritanical milieu. I didn’t want to be derided as a jerkoff. If only a copy of Stand Still Like the Hummingbird had fluttered into my sha ...more | |
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| Steve Erickson is one of those writers whose parade of flawless paragraphs and pitch-perfect verbal exchanges places improbable but predestined characters in circumstances that are otherworldly and also seeming predestined, meanwhile keeping all evid ...more | |
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| Willa Cather was a bold one for artifice. My Ántonia is a book purportedly written by a woman author who has agreed with a male lawyer compatriot to write down everything meaningful she remembers of a female acquaintance of them both. A few months la ...more | |
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| On August 31, 1946, John Hersey’s Hiroshima was famously published in its entirety in the New Yorker magazine, hardly one year after the shocking cruel dawn of atomic warfare. This edition of Hersey’s iconic journalistic scoop has a much later copyri ...more | |
“To peruse Larry Flynt's flagship is to encounter laughable facets of necrophilia, dildo-strapped nuns, ambulatory turds, walking anuses, the perceived discrepancy in penis size between black and white males, vaginas large enough to envelop an entire man, physical intimacies with anthropomorphic pets, lesbian love rituals, the ills and quirks of male homosexuality, the corrosive effect of vaginal discharge upon automobile upholstery, the danger that freshly licked African-american lips will accidentally adhere to some glasslike surface, bar sluts, gang-bangs, wastebasket fetuses, flatulence anal and vaginal, the handicapped, Ku Klux Klansmen, lynching, anal sex, prison romance, naked females whose faces are covered by paper bags, sex crimes of the rich and famous, sex in full-body traction, retards as playthings, practical jokes committed by Saint Peter, suicide, consanguinity, animal husbandry in the connubial sense, erectile dysfunction, voyeurs, panty-sniffewrs, menstruation, STDs and philosopher houseflies delivering piquant sophistries while nibbling on corn-studded nuggets of shit.”
― Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine
― Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine
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Envy. Boy, I can relate.
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