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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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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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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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| Great translation. Same story, when compared to a translation by Robert Fitzgerald from 1961 here on my shelf, the Wilson translation is just a little clearer, with language a bit simpler. The Wilson translation reads breezy, not so academic. I recom ...more | |
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is on page 200 of 582 of The Odyssey: Giving this a re-read after The Illiad, followed by the Oresteia. Couple that with learning more myths and contemporaneous folk tales from the time of composure—the Odyssey just keeps getting deeper and seems even more important. So fun
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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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