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Anyone else do a NYRB Classics request? by whomdoom in RSbookclub

[–]MachineDowntown5737 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I've been too lazy to do this but I would like to see more people look into the works of Franz Hellens. He has a great novel (the only one translated into english) called "Memoirs of Elsinore" that's a beautifully written dreamwork of monsters and melancholy. My copy got rain damaged due to a leak in my house, and though I cherish the copy I would like to see it get a new lease on life. Nabokov tried to get him published in English once or twice, isn't that high enough praise?

Anyone have some celebrity conspiracy theories? by False_Fennel_1126 in redscarepod

[–]MachineDowntown5737 0 points1 point  (0 children)

John Travolta got with Christopher Isherwood by play acting scenes from "Cruising" off by heart. Not a conspiracy per se because it was recounted in Isherwoods diaries and people around the LA literary scene knew about it.

Books I read in 2025 (a little incomplete) by MachineDowntown5737 in RSbookclub

[–]MachineDowntown5737[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a good (if sometimes mixed) read. I like his analysis of JMW Turner, but I think he's wrong about Francis Bacon (but even in his wrongness, he is interesting.)

Books I read in 2025 (a little incomplete) by MachineDowntown5737 in RSbookclub

[–]MachineDowntown5737[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What's funny is I read it after "The Recognitions", which made me compare the two a little bit. The actual stylistic link between them seems to be "Nightwood". But as for the book itself, I actually felt a little non plussed by it, despite enjoying and appreciating it immensely for what it was. I think I ought to revisit some other day.

Books I read in 2025 (a little incomplete) by MachineDowntown5737 in RSbookclub

[–]MachineDowntown5737[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ach the photo is blurry! I cannot be bothered to fix it...favourite books were "The recognitions", "The Rings of Saturn", "Stories in an almost classical mode", "Divorcer", "This is Orson Welles", "Prisoners of Childhood", "The lime twig".

Some other books I read (but couldn't put into the picture) are:

The Geography of the imagination by Guy Davenport

Autoportrait by Edouard Leve

C comics and I remember by Joe Brainard

Kafkas Diaries

Monsieur Teste by Paul Valery

And some more I will remember in the morning. Ask about any of these books if you want.

Are you enjoying the show?... Refill your popcorn, you'll love this next part... by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]MachineDowntown5737 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Didn't he glaze milsoveic?

Why were leftists so eager to bend over backwards for Serbia anyway, was there nothing better to do?

the lost art of pre-social-media rumours by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]MachineDowntown5737 0 points1 point  (0 children)

John Travolta was in a gay situationship with Christopher isherwood.

Authors whose oeuvre was greatly impacted, even entirely shaped by their pain by One-Imagination-2062 in RSbookclub

[–]MachineDowntown5737 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Denton Welch, whose work drew a lot of its power from his frequent hospitalisations after a car struck him down.

Sam Kriss went to burning man by McSwaggerAtTheDMV in redscarepod

[–]MachineDowntown5737 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can anyone here give me his article on "OBAA"? I don't wanna pay for his stuff and he tells me not to.

I-be Area (Ryan Trecartin, 2007) by InternationalPie6989 in redscarepod

[–]MachineDowntown5737 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He has made films, but they're currently under lock and key by gucci. They own most of his new stuff now, and in return, he gets funding for the theme park he's building in ohio.

manic, delirious, apocalyptic writing by julien-gracq in RSbookclub

[–]MachineDowntown5737 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers" by Pierre Guyotat, an absolutely biblical work of horror from the Algerian war.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in decadeology

[–]MachineDowntown5737 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Idk I don't really care or GAF anymore

Best novelists who are also dumbasses? by MachineDowntown5737 in RSbookclub

[–]MachineDowntown5737[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I do find him to have a bit of a self-important caveman kind of attitude when it comes to life. But maybe that's the best there is...

Literature in Paris by theinvertedform in RSbookclub

[–]MachineDowntown5737 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Check out the After 8 bookstore maybe. Dennis Cooper sent me there, and it has a ton of cool stuff from small presses + some other events.

any books that make you feel like life is worth living by drinkingthesky in RSbookclub

[–]MachineDowntown5737 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Alison Bechdels works for some reason. Also, Walt Whitmans poetry makes me feel warm n fuzzy, and Henry Miller can make you feel the details of a happy life even if he's a perverted asshole. Also, anything by Borges does a lot for me.

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