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roachboy · 09-11-2007, 05:23 AM

if you can find anything by peter markus (good, brother) try his stuff--it is strange and beautiful and made up of short sections.
the "if you can find..." qualification comes from the fact that calamari press puts it out, and that is a small press that makes lovely things but not so many at a time.

ben marcus: the age of wire and string
another astonishing writer.

j-l borges: labyrinths, ficciones
um...yeah.

georges perec: species of spaces

daniel kharms and alexander vvedensky: the main with the black coat
fabulous, dark, funny russian surrealists (for lack of a better word)

victor pelevin: omon ra

where others above veered into sf, i veered into noir fiction. jim thompson is a reliable favorite, tho of his stuff population 1280, the grifters, after dark, my sweet and the getaway are all excellent.
also try:
raymond chandler
charles willeford
chester himes

for sf: try out some j.g. ballard. the short stories, atrocity exhibition, concrete island, crash...

btw:

i think joyce is getting a bad rap above.
dubliners is lovely--especially "the dead"--and fits around a punctuated attention span.
you have to read portrait of the artist before ulysses, so that works out.

09-11-2007, 05:23 AM	#32 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	if you can find anything by peter markus (good, brother) try his stuff--it is strange and beautiful and made up of short sections. the "if you can find..." qualification comes from the fact that calamari press puts it out, and that is a small press that makes lovely things but not so many at a time. ben marcus: the age of wire and string another astonishing writer. j-l borges: labyrinths, ficciones um...yeah. georges perec: species of spaces daniel kharms and alexander vvedensky: the main with the black coat fabulous, dark, funny russian surrealists (for lack of a better word) victor pelevin: omon ra where others above veered into sf, i veered into noir fiction. jim thompson is a reliable favorite, tho of his stuff population 1280, the grifters, after dark, my sweet and the getaway are all excellent. also try: raymond chandler charles willeford chester himes for sf: try out some j.g. ballard. the short stories, atrocity exhibition, concrete island, crash... btw: i think joyce is getting a bad rap above. dubliners is lovely--especially "the dead"--and fits around a punctuated attention span. you have to read portrait of the artist before ulysses, so that works out. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 09-11-2007 at 05:56 AM..