Thomas Bernhard
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Thomas Bernhard’s Splenetic Style Lives March 06, 2025
Stendhal famously defined the novel as a mirror that its author has taken out on his walk along the high road; sometimes it reflects the azure of the heavens, sometimes it reflects darkly the mire....
Autobiography of Influence May 24, 2024
When my now-wife Nicolette lent me her hardcover edition of The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker in 2016, I regarded it as a strange and somewhat foreboding presence. For the two to five months that it sat unread on my desk—in part due to the thick piece...
Narrative Hoard June 06, 2023
In an era of sentences that trend not only towards our laziest tendencies but also towards the speed and rhythm of our economy: the elevator pitch sentence, the jump-cut sentence, the news hook sentence, the perfectly manscaped short back and sides s...
An Interview With Jordan Castro November 14, 2022
I read Nicholson Baker and Thomas Bernhard, and their books took place over the course of a short period of time. I realized if I did that, I could go anywhere I wanted and include a bunch of different rants and so on. I think in terms of making it f...
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Book Piles August 02, 2021
Recently, while moving several piles of books (31 titles) from the floor to another place on the floor to make space for my office chair, I experienced a moment of clarity during which I felt like I had arrived at the end of a manic episode and was c...
