Welcome to PaperBird's Book channel! Here I cover books I've been reading recently, with occasional rambles/rants about past reads. You'll see my hands more than my face as I like to fondle the books I'm talking about. Sample of books I've enjoyed -- Lookout Cartridge by Joseph McElroy, The Lost Scrapbook by Evan Dara, Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Ulysses by James Joyce, anything by Claude Simon. Lots of stuff in translation, too. Nouveau romanists, modernists, postmodernists, school of Lish, etc. etc. Also like poetry. Let me know if there's anything you'd like to see, and thanks for watching my channel
I forgot how crazy his writing is; you going on a rundown for Frisk gave me a half-anxious moment; Frisk is some heavy work-I’ve been thinking of rereading it some day soon. I’ve got The Marbled Swarm on the way soon as well-which I believe was written like & inspired by Alain Robbe-Grillet? Anyhow, great video, didn’t even realize it’s 7+ years old
Cool vid. Wild sheep chase was the first I read by him and I thought it was so funny. I listened to the audiobook recently and still got a kick out of it. Norwegian wood has such an October feel, have listened to the audiobook two or three times now walking around chicago when the leaves change. Might give the print version a try this year. Cheers
I used to love this book so much, but rereading it recently I found its relentless misogyny just poisoned it for me. I don’t know how I missed it before.
just finished The Origin of the World and Winter Mythologies. absolutely fantastic. he makes you hang on to every sentence which drips with Rambaudian savagery. master of economy fr
Lin, not at all a fan...taipei book, kind of superficial and 'overly' clever...as a kid who grew up in taipei (moi) and who goes back everyyear...it felt like a dude who understood city only in its most superficial way....and he sure aint Qiu Miaojin, Wu Ming-yi, or Chen Ruoxi hahahahahaah.....i'd love to see a PaperBird review of Solenoid---extraordinary book and it often reminded me of your Rambles....cheers, bb
@@PaperBird no, american but i lived there until 10...my dad was stationed there and now my wife is taiwanese....it is a great great country....yes, food and people and healthcare are the best.....great writers too Paperbird :)
This is art at its finest. A captivating carnival of artistic shots, delightfully strange and phantasmagorical, which when looked upon, brings one to a place of utter elation (What wondrous beauty can be found in incomprehensibility and confusion?) Then the music in the background, rich in rawness and emotion, further heightens the sense of utter melancholy that pervades the video. Thank you, PaperBird.
glad to know I'm not the only one here who kept asking for months to everyone and (especially) their mother: when is PB going to upload a new video? By the by, am I wrong or are some of the old videos missing from the list?
the great thing about literary editors these days is that, while most of the time they are using the company email while corrosponding, a lot of the time if they work for a university or high school or whatever, they will have their own late 90's era website with a personal email from before they gave up on trying to make something of themselves as a writer that is just open to the public for fanmail or whatever and wow. you can just send them whatever. They'll try to be nice at first but eventually you know youve won when they have to fully abandon that email and any shred of hope they had for actually getting fan mail. It really balances the power dynamic between literary editor and nutjob Denis Johnson fanboys.
