been on a bit of a binge since christmas, been getting into short story cycles especially
so good, one of my favourite books ive read probably. if you've read/liked in our time by hemingway you should read this... or read it anyway. really awesome series of interconnecting stories/vignettes about people in this town and their hopes, unrealised desires, etc
one of my fav steinbeck books ive read, quite unlike a lot of his other stuff too, formally cool again. similar concept to winesburg ohio except is around the pastures of heaven, a valley in cali. thematically similar too. some really great stories in here that have stuck in my memory
collection of short stories, vignettes, prose poems, poems that concentrate on black people and the north south usa difference. really vivid imagery and feeling, really formally unlike anything ive read
just started this too, again a short story cycle focussing on isolation/decay in lives of ppl in fishing villages along the maine coast
so awesome, joyce is just a serously good writer. if anyone is interested i would say it would be really cool to read dubliners, then portrait, then ulysses in that order because you'll notice lots of interesting continuities, thematic linkages and stylistic/formal/experimental changes through them
had to read this for uni and its a damn long book but its damn good, probably best victorian novel ive read. george eliot was just a super intelligent perceptive badass, damn
also read Ethan Frome the other week cos id never actually read any Wharton and i thought it was a rad lil novellla, pretty sad/intense