#joseph mcelroy

[crownhate]

I’m done buying books for the rest of the year 💀 couldn’t have capped it off with a better pull than a signed hardcopy of The Dying Grass for only 80 bucks (CAD). currently reading that copy of miss macintosh, my darling, a huge tome that i am enjoying quite a lot. at 1321 pages it may be the longest single volume book I’ll ever read.

[thejewofkansas]

PLUS, ZIZZ!, GENJI and the Bomb: The Monthly Gravette #20

As always, a shout-out to Ben and Nate of Words About Books; you may find their own blog here. I realize it’s been a while since the last “Monthly” Gravette post. No excuses, only reasons – and this time around, the reason (besides external pressures) is that from April to early July I was struggling with a certain book: Joseph McElroy’s Plus. Now, Plus isn’t a long book – at 215 pages, it’s…

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[nickged]

Thomas Pynchon, ‘The Crying of Lot 49′ (1966)

Joseph Mcelroy, ‘A Smuggler’s Bible’ (1966)

[talesofpassingtime]

(he by the way loathes dotted ellipses in fiction)

Joseph McElroy, Women and Men

[talesofpassingtime]

As when (as Shakespeare could have said) throwing the gist of life’s book up against an adhesive partition you can’t throw it all up at once so it arrives in its own time but then is known to have got there also all at once, its speed everywhere the same, and to describe a curve. So life describes itself, in which event it must take full responsibility.

Joseph McElroy, Women and Men

[talesofpassingtime]

She was one of the few women he had known who when they knew something did not ask him to guess what it was.

Joseph McElroy, Women and Men

[talesofpassingtime]

I can’t know everything.

Joseph McElroy, Women and Men

[talesofpassingtime]

I mean, I read a novel a year, maybe every two years, standing up in a line at an airport check-in counter or waiting for the shuttle (then fall asleep when I get into my plane seat) and I recall a chapter at random and then throw the book away or leave it in the seat for a stewardess, it was a pretty good book—

Joseph McElroy, Women and Men