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Blindness is devastating. Heartbreaking. Gripping. Fantastic.

Wow.

Glad you like it, man.

Have you read much by Saramago? Just wondering which of his I should try on next. I noticed there's a sequel to Blindness. But I'm not sure I want to visit this world again right away.

I think the only other Saramago I've read is Ensayo Sobre la Lucidez (I think the title in English is Seeing), which is good, but not as good as Blindness. But some people I trust when it comes to such things have said Cain is worth reading.

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Thank you, friend. I'll check that one out when next I come back around to this guy.

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The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen.

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If you want really strange collections by great stylists, look at Gary Lutz's collection Stories in the Worst Way or Christine Schutt's Nightwork.

More well-known (and for good reason): Amy Hempel (collected works), Barry Hannah (Airships) or Denis Johnson (Jesus' Son). For some reason I think you recently read Hempel.

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I did not recently read Hempel, but that Denis Johnson title might be what I'm after. Second time this week that his name has come up.

Or, I could just give Libra another chance.


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At some point you should finish Libra.

Two more things: The World Within the Word by William H. Gass. Gass might be the finest writer of the last 50 years, here is an excerpt from the first essay, "The Doomed in Their Sinking," which is on suicide.

Crane went sudden as a springboard. The Gulf gave nothing back. My mother, I remember, took her time. She held the house around her as she held her bathrobe, safely doorpinned down its floorlength, the metal threads glinting like those gay gold loops which close the coat of a grenadier, though there were gaps of course...unseemly as sometimes a door is on a chain...so that to urinate she had to hoist the whole thing like a skirt, collecting the cloth in fat pleats with her fingers, wads which soon out-oozed her fists and sprang slowly away...one consequence...so that she felt she had to hover above the hole, the seat (clouds don't care about their aim), unsteadily...necessarily...more and more so as the nighttime days drew on, so that the robe grew damp the way the sweater on a long drink grows, soggy from edge to center, until I found I cared with what success she peed when what she swallowed was herself and what streamed out of her in consequence seemed me.

Also, Mick a while ago recommended Joyelle McSweeney. Her most recent poetry collection Percussion Grenade is a little miracle.

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Thank you for sharing that, but I'm not really sure that's what I'm after right now. It's going in the ol' spiral for safekeeping, though.


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You can't go wrong Denis Johnson. After you've read "Emergency" (a story in Jesus' Son) listen to Tobias Wolff read it: http://www.newyorker.com/online/2009/05 ... udio_wolff

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It may be Libra. It may not be, though. I often try to read novels in the winter months. I like the idea of being right in the middle of something when I'm visiting family.


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Taking a break from the heavy lifting.

Just cracked open book two of The Wildwood Chronicles: Under Wildwood, by Colin Meloy.

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I'm looking for more great books about people who are living "down and out," living on the margins, or barely making it paycheck to paycheck, be they hard-drinking or not.

along the lines of:

Down and Out in Paris and London, Orwell
Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row, Steinbeck
Post Office, Bukowski
The Rum Diary, Thompson
even The Sun Also Rises or On The Road

any ideas?

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This may not contain that exact theme, but I think that some Raymond Carver might do you some good.


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I'm looking for more great books about people who are living "down and out," living on the margins, or barely making it paycheck to paycheck, be they hard-drinking or not.

along the lines of:

Down and Out in Paris and London, Orwell
Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row, Steinbeck
Post Office, Bukowski
The Rum Diary, Thompson
even The Sun Also Rises or On The Road

any ideas?

Suttree - Cormac McCarthy.

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No offense, but if you're looking for literature of the "down and out" and people "living on the margins," you should look beyond white dudes. Try Nina Revoyr's "Southland," Karen Tei Yamashita's "Tropic of Orange," "Personal Days" by Ed Park (my favorite out of all of these listed here), or "The Guardians" by Ana Castillo.

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No offense, but if you're looking for literature of the "down and out" and people "living on the margins," you should look beyond white dudes.



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Trust me, I would re-up, too.

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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:
I'm looking for more great books about people who are living "down and out," living on the margins, or barely making it paycheck to paycheck, be they hard-drinking or not.

along the lines of:

Down and Out in Paris and London, Orwell
Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row, Steinbeck
Post Office, Bukowski
The Rum Diary, Thompson
even The Sun Also Rises or On The Road

any ideas?

Suttree - Cormac McCarthy.


Are you trying to get on my good side, Len?

Suttree is my fav of his books.

"The Sun Also Rises" down and out? In what way? I didn't want to eat or drink anything for 24 hrs after reading that book. That's all they do!


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The Argonaut wrote:
I'm looking for more great books about people who are living "down and out," living on the margins, or barely making it paycheck to paycheck, be they hard-drinking or not.

along the lines of:

Down and Out in Paris and London, Orwell
Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row, Steinbeck
Post Office, Bukowski
The Rum Diary, Thompson
even The Sun Also Rises or On The Road

any ideas?

Suttree - Cormac McCarthy.


Are you trying to get on my good side, Len?

Suttree is my fav of his books.

"The Sun Also Rises" down and out? In what way? I didn't want to eat or drink anything for 24 hrs after reading that book. That's all they do!

Get on your good side? I'm one of your RM favorites.

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