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Bud’s 2024 Year in Books
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Yes, all nudity becomes mundane and no big deal after about two hours.
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Teenager: A Novel
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2022
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4 editions
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Work
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2017
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F250
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2014
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Double Bird
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2018
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Tollbooth
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2013
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2 editions
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Or Something Like That
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2012
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Calm Face
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2016
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Dust Bunny City
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2017
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Everything Neon
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2014
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I'm From Electric Peak
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2016
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The End of Good Luck
Hello hello,
I just wrapped up a year long (plus some) project called Good Luck, which is an experimental novel that was serialized, as it was written, at The Nervous Breakdown.
The project is about memory/the self, art, labor, and love.
The project was initially spurred by the death of my dear friend Chuck Howe, upset by the absurd news of his passing (he died of heart failure while laughing on the
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The plays of antiquity, based on older myth, especially the ones I’ve read by Euripides, don’t play with foreshadowing so much as come out swinging in their opening lines to tell us directly what the foul climax of the play will bring. In this case, ...more |
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| One of the most thought provoking of the Greek tragedies I’ve read this year. I’ve been on a tear through the Oresteia of Aeschylus, on through the Theban plays of Sophocles, and into Euripides, first with the play ‘The Bacchae’ and this morning, ‘Hi ...more | |
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| On a big reread, can be slotted as a prelude to The Iliad if one chooses. (Features a young Achilles on a test run of aggravation against his boss) This play is a marvel—it deals with very real people, flip-flopping on an impossible decision, which j ...more | |
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| One of the most thought provoking of the Greek tragedies I’ve read this year. I’ve been on a tear through the Oresteia of Aeschylus, on through the Theban plays of Sophocles, and into Euripides, first with the play ‘The Bacchae’ and this morning, ‘Hi ...more | |
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| Completely metal. Dionysus rolls into town and plays the trickster, and gives birth to horror as a genre unto itself 400 BC. | |
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| This read I just did the slice of it that is the Simone Weil essay. Her work had been recommended to me by a friend the other night and since I have been making my way through Greek epics and tragedies. Weil is brilliant. Will re-visit and read the o ...more | |
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“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
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“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
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“Somehow I fell asleep in the graveyard.”
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