Literature Nobel—good choice! www.theguardian.com/books/live/2...

from Gargoyles by Thomas Bernhard kudera.blogspot.com/2025/10/gargoyles-by-thomas-bernhard.html #fridayreads #writinglife #amreading #nobelprize2025 #literature #kant #nietzsche #booksky #bookchallenge

I could add Arlt to this. kudera.blogspot.com/2013/12/26-fictions-and-3-memoirs-that-stayed.html #writinglife #booksky #bookchallenge #bookreviews #amreading #novel #fiction #fridayreads

My dad would give this guy a lift from West Philly to Temple, and decades later he found me by email and subsequently sent me five dollars (not Migrant Intellectual, but the guy described a few paragraphs in). kudera.blogspot.com/2012/12/teacher.html

too loud a mouse kudera.blogspot.com/2017/07/from... #writinglife #czech #literature #amreading #novel #fiction #fridayreads #booksky #bookchallenge

I don't quite understand how someone could use the word "tenacity" to describe my efforts in getting work published, but a recent connection did . . . yay or nay? kudera.blogspot.com/2021/07/short-stories-and-novel-excerpts.html #writinglife #shortstories #bookreviews #amreading #novel #fiction

perhaps my favorite nonfiction read of the past ten years kudera.blogspot.com/2018/07/james-atlas-on-biography.html #writinglife #booksky #bookchallenge #bookreviews #amreading #novel #fiction #fridayreads #biography

rest in peace kudera.blogspot.com/2025/09/donald-zagoria.html

brussels sprouts kudera.blogspot.com/search?q=tho... #writinglife #booksky #bookchallenge #bookreviews #amreading #novel #fiction #fridayreads

Times flies when the Rushdie update is almost three years old. kudera.blogspot.com/2022/10/rushdie-update.html #writinglife #french #literature #amreading #novel #fiction #fridayreads

And then Pynchon was in public, and the publicity did not abate. kudera.blogspot.com/search?q=pynchon&max-results=20&by-date=true #writinglife #bookreviews #amreading #novel #fiction #fridayreads

surviving kudera.blogspot.com/2011/08/fante-published-today.html #writinglife #italian #american #calfornia #literature #amreading #novel #fiction #fridayreads

gargantuan beings in the earth kudera.blogspot.com/2021/11/giants-in-earth.html #writinglife #classic #American #Scandinavian #immigrant #literature #amreading #novel #fiction #fridayreads

the long life kudera.blogspot.com/2021/03/beverly-cleary-and-larry-mcmurtry.html #writinglife #french #literature #amreading #novel #fiction #fridayreads

Periodic Walter Benjamin update: "Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet."

Bly's translation of Hamsun's Hunger is the one I've read four or five times, but I've read that Bly took liberties with the original text. nymag.com/article/2016...

I went on and on for 10k words about Gary Amdahl's Visigoth (it's that good). longform.wdclarke.org/visigoth-sto...

nothing to write kudera.blogspot.com/2013/12/blanchots-writer.html #writinglife #french #literature #amreading #novel #fiction #fridayreads

the weight of their luggage kudera.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-weight-of-their-luggage.html

you may not be interested in literature kudera.blogspot.com/2013/10/you-may-not-be-interested-in-literature.html

pray, tell kudera.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-stories-have-something-to-say.html #writinglife #booksky #bookchallenge #bookreviews #amreading #novel #fiction #fridayreads #mla #mfa #awp

Most people just work here. kudera.blogspot.com/2021/07/short-stories-and-novel-excerpts.html #writinglife #booksky #bookchallenge #bookreviews #amreading #novel #fiction #fridayreads

chez Italia kudera.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-father-italian.html #writinglife #booksky #bookchallenge #bookreviews #amreading #novel #fiction #fridayreads

and don't forget this list if you need a novel (or memoir): kudera.blogspot.com/2013/12/26-fictions-and-3-memoirs-that-stayed.html #writinglife #booksky #bookchallenge #bookreviews #amreading #novel #fiction #fridayreads

kudera.blogspot.com/2025/09/heav... #writinglife #booksky #bookchallenge #bookreviews #amreading #novel #fiction

Mike Schmidt kudera.blogspot.com/2024/07/all-mike-schmidt-had-to-do.html #writinglife #booksky #bookchallenge #bookreviews #amreading #novel #fiction

This piece in the AMERICAN SCHOLAR tries to correct some widespread misconceptions about the genesis and publication of ON THE ROAD and apportion credit and some blame where both are due. It derives from my book on Cowley, THE INSIDER, coming in November. theamericanscholar.org/scrolling-th...

Galleys dropped! My weird novel abt art, the angels of history, Kabbalah, Yiddish poets, a dybbuk, & the dangers of trauma narratives. I pitched it (not well) as a Jewish Magic Mountain, but shorter. It's a strange book & I can't wait to share it with you. Feb 10th from Dzanc.

The Board of Examiners award you a C- in Reading Performativity (fr The book of Laughter and Forgetting, M Kundera)

A gormless book-non-review has made me think about rereading this... (review in 2nd reply)

Chinese Gucci kudera.blogspot.com/2020/05/chinese-gucci-interview-part-1.html #writinglife #booksky #bookchallenge #bookreviews #amreading #novel #fiction

kudera.blogspot.com/2009/03/don-riggs-on-writers-and-writing.html #writinglife #booksky #bookchallenge #bookreviews #amreading #poetry #sonnet

All emerged unscathed...

Our books are printed in/shipped from Slovenia, not print-on-demand, and can be ordered at coronasamizdat.com (payments via secure provider Stripe) Ebooks, increasingly available through the usual outlets, courtesy of friends at redfiendpub.com

"But I'm also reminded of Philip K. Dick and other writers who very rarely crafted a beautiful sentence but had other things going for them that have kept them in print." kudera.blogspot.com/2012/08/bad-review.html #writinglife #booksky #bookchallenge #bookreviews #amreading

Mark de Silva live on Victim Radio kudera.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-literary-scene.html #amreading #writingcommunity #writinglife #fridayreads #booksky #bookchallenge #novel #novella

the great American real-estate novel kudera.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-great-american-real-estate-novel.html #amreading #writingcommunity #writinglife #fridayreads #booksky #bookchallenge #novel

kudera.blogspot.com/2025/08/she-... #amreading #writingcommunity #writinglife #fridayreads #booksky #bookchallenge #novel #novella

kudera.blogspot.com/2020/02/in-spring-of-that-year-year-of-dragon.html #amreading #writingcommunity #writinglife #fridayreads #booksky #bookchallenge #novel #novella

kudera.blogspot.com/2025/08/she-... #amreading #writingcommunity #writinglife #fridayreads #booksky #bookchallenge #novel #novella

kudera.blogspot.com/2022/04/stev... #amreading #writingcommunity #writinglife #fridayreads #booksky #bookchallenge #novel #novella

kudera.blogspot.com/2016/10/augg... #amreading #writingcommunity #writinglife #fridayreads #mfa #awp #booksky #bookchallenge

kudera.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-bended-circuity-by-robert-s-stickley.html #amreading #writingcommunity #writinglife #fridayreads #mfa #awp #booksky #bookchallenge

kudera.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-... #amreading #writingcommunity #writinglife #fridayreads #mfa #awp #booksky #bookchallenge

kudera.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-bended-circuity-by-robert-s-stickley.html #amreading #writingcommunity #writinglife #fridayreads #mfa #awp #booksky #bookchallenge