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Leonard Cohen
“This was your heart
This swarm of flies
This was once your mouth
This bowl of lies

You serve them well
I’m not surprised
You’re of their kin
You’re of their kind”
Leonard Cohen

James  Patterson
“Write the story. Don't write sentences.”
James Patterson

Paul West
“What’s that dreadful phrase? Reader-friendly? It isn’t reader friendly; it’s saying to the reader, “I bet you can’t take this, and if you can you’re the kind of reader I want and you’ll stay with me. If you can’t take it, I don’t want you to read me anyway.”
Paul West

Robert Coover
“In a sense, omnipotence is a form of impotence.”
Robert Coover

Will Self
“We're like coke heads or chronic masturbators, aren't we? Attempting to crank the last iota of abandonment out of an instrinsically empty and mechanical experience. We push the plunger home, we abrade the clitoris, we yank the penis and we feel nothing. Not exactly nothing, worse than nothing, we feel a flicker or a prickle, the sensual equivalent of a retinal after-image. That's our fun now, not fun itself, only a tired allusion to it. Nevertheless, we feel certain that if we can allude to fun one more time, make a firm statement about it, it will return like the birds after winter.”
Will Self, My Idea of Fun

88667 Alexander Theroux Ville — 118 members — last activity Jan 07, 2026 03:01PM
The Theroux revival continues. This group counts as a village forum for discussing the works of Alexander Theroux. Both scholars and the naive and cur ...more
134058 Valancourt Books — 517 members — last activity Jan 13, 2026 09:59PM
Valancourt Books is an independent small press specializing in the rediscovery of rare, neglected, and out-of-print fiction. Horror & Supernatural, W ...more
97302 The BURIED Book Club — 947 members — last activity Feb 27, 2026 06:22PM
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118542 Robert Coover's Fable Land — 59 members — last activity Mar 15, 2024 09:20PM
Another "N.R." Author=Worship group. Coover -- one of the masters of American post=WAR postmodern & metaphyctional fiction. Read! ...more
82746 William T Vollmann Central — 280 members — last activity Apr 20, 2026 11:22AM
This corner of goodreads shall serve the needs of rainbow readers of Mr Vollmann's indulgent body of work. We welcome the veteran and the fresh flesh ...more
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