Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book

Jacob Howard

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Jacob.


Loading...
Henry James Sr.
“Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundest tragic depths of the essential dearth in which its subject's roots are plunged. The natural inheritance of everyone who is capable of spiritual life is an unsubdued forest where the wolf howls and the obscene bird of night chatters.”
Henry James Sr.

Gilbert Sorrentino
“All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality ought to be plumbers.”
Gilbert Sorrentino

Jacques Ellul
“Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.”
Jacques Ellul

Samuel Beckett
“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

Marcel Schwob
“Look: each moment is a cradle and a casket: may all life and all death seem strange to you.”
Marcel Schwob, The Book of Monelle

25x33 Dalkey Archive Devotees — 75 members — last activity Aug 27, 2018 08:18AM
for fans of Flann, S.B., and the best there is in publishing today
1061040 /lit/ (dead edition) — 108 members — last activity May 14, 2020 04:40AM
As of June 2020, we got control back of the original /lit/ group: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/67886-lit-revival-edition Come and participate ...more
97302 The BURIED Book Club — 966 members — last activity Feb 27, 2026 06:22PM
TODAY BOOKS ARE NOT BURNED. THEY ARE BURIED. WE SHALL UNEARTH THEM.
year in books
Hagar
13,946 books | 655 friends

Lemma
813 books | 57 friends

Max
Max
254 books | 27 friends

Chris Via
4,072 books | 1,470 friends

Amery
2,604 books | 20 friends

Cinicov
43,918 books | 49 friends

Cliffor...
879 books | 1,786 friends

/Fitbrah/
924 books | 164 friends

More friends…
The Tunnel by William H. Gass
Uplifting Fiction
359 books — 317 voters
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
Modernism - An Alternate Canon
101 books — 39 voters

More…



Polls voted on by Jacob

Lists liked by Jacob