This was the perfect book for someone like me to read — damn, I got every reference in it. Is that something to be worried about? Well, it would be if I were one of the main characters in the book because that is what seemingly marks you out for death at the hands of [...]
April 27, 2008
Categories: Turn The Page, blogging, book, culture vulture, news, updates, words, writers, writing . Tags: 6 sick hipsters, crime novel, ficiton, novel, prose, rayo casablanca, Turn The Page, update, writers, writing . Author: insomnihack . Comments: 1 Comment
I remember exactly where I was when I learned of the passing of Kurt Vonnegut — I was in Wisconsin staying on a friend’s couch into the second month of my travels around the states. I wrote a poem in honour of him and i read it at the Harmony Cafe as part of [...]
April 2, 2008
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The Gambler is the story of Alexei Ivanovich, a tutor in the household of The General and his family. This was paired with Notes From The Underground: both of them being fairly short novels and stylistically similar — both of them using the first person form of narrative.
I found the narrator, even given some of [...]
March 26, 2008
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I seem to remember this being recommended to me with a line like ‘If you say you like Science Fiction then you need to read this.’ It is different — it has a very different flavour to a lot of the science fiction that I had read up to that point except for maybe The [...]
March 24, 2008
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Taken From Chuck’s Official Site:
Posted March 20th, 2008 by Dennis
In emailing back and forth with Chuck earlier this week, I asked him what he’s been up to. I might have been feeling him out for what he’s been working on a little. But it wasn’t my primary intention. [...]
March 20, 2008
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I have been meaning for an age to read Dostoevsky and, having a literature degree, am slightly ashamed of myself that it has taken until now. I am of course reading a translation but I have to trust that it is a faithful rendition of the original Russian, just as I have trusted the work [...]
March 20, 2008
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I am so glad that I read this book before I watched the film because if not I wouldn’t have bothered and I would have denied myself an entrance into the work of a wonderful writer.
The film stripped away so many things from the book, and I know how they say that you shouldn’t compare [...]
March 17, 2008
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As with a lot of the works by Herman Hesse this book is not large in regards to the number of pages but the largeness of the spirit contained within is immeasurable.
Sometimes you read a book and you feel that serendipity has delivered it to you, so closely does it seem tailored to the needs [...]
March 14, 2008
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You find the beats, you find Fante, you’re gonna find Bukowski. As a writer how can you not be drawn to him? It is arguable that he is one of the most influential out of any of that type of writer — the ones taking their real life and fictionalising, drawing a thin veil between [...]
March 13, 2008
Categories: Turn The Page, beat generation, blogging, bukowski, film, ideas, poetry, ramblings, updates, words, writers, writing . Tags: beat generation, books, factotum, ham on rye, post office, Turn The Page, writer, writing . Author: insomnihack . Comments: 1 Comment
Wow, these idiots are really coming out of the woodwork. Oops, is that a bit harsh? Well, Jesus, what the hell do these people expect? They write these things and then they get published — someone who knows you is going to see it and damn if you aren’t rumbled.
Margaret B. Jones wrote about [...]
March 4, 2008
Categories: Turn The Page, book, facts, news, tinternet, updates, words, writers, writing . Tags: book, fake memoirs, love and consequences, margaret b jones, margaret seltzer, Turn The Page, writers . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments