Lee’s 2024 Year in Books
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Lee Foust
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The Three Living Meet the Three Dead
In case you're perhaps curious about this book, knowing that it's quite an investment of your time at 600+ pages, I thought I'd write a few words about it to fill you in.
Here's its history:
Back in the mid-1980s, I had an idea for a novel. I had recently survived a typical twenty-something banal kind of male sexual trauma that, even if trivial by a lot of standards, had shaken me deeply an
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Hiya back. In terms of the kind of thing I think you're getting at, a mix of experimentalism, horror, and human condition drama, I love authors Kathy Acker, Chris Krauss, Alison Rumfitt, Shirley Jackson, and Hubert Selby Jr. with special mention for
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is on page 340 of 691 of The Mill on the Floss: Sometimes Maggie thought she could have been contented with absorbing fancies; if she could have had all Scott’s novels and all Byron’s poems!—then, perhaps, she might have found happiness enough to dull her sensibility to her actual daily life.And yet they were hardly what she wanted.She could make dream-worlds of her own, but no dream-world would satisfy her now.She wanted some explanation of this hard, real life.
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| At the core of this, Dorothy Macardle's third (as far as I know) novel of Gothic romance, there's a really interesting exploration of evil and the supernatural--do they exist? Is evil an outcome of abuse? How does one combat evil, appeasement or oppo ...more | |
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| Another wonderful short story I listened to Tony Walker read today while keeping on hot compress on my left eye. I must find the collection of stories that this is in. Wonderfully creepy, a bit weird, and rather class conscious as well I thought. A g ...more | |
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| Wow--what a classic. Can't believe I hadn't read this one until now. perfectly constructed. A great narrative voice, perfect for the situation, a rural man of a purely practical nature, exactly the kind of person who would survive at least as far as ...more | |
“The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but it is also their means of communication. … Every separation is a link.”
― Gravity and Grace
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but it is also their means of communication. … Every separation is a link.”
― Gravity and Grace
“The price of freedom is high — far higher than that of slavery. And it is not paid in gold, nor in blood, nor in the most noble sacrifices, but in cowardice, in prostitution, in treachery, and in everything that is rotten in the human soul.”
― The Skin
― The Skin
“Draft-dodging is what chicken-hawks do best. Dick Cheney, Glenn Beck, Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh (this capon claimed he had a cyst on his fat ass), Newt Gingrich, former Attorney General John Ashcroft—he received seven deferments to teach business education at Southwest Missouri State—pompous Bill O’Reilly, Jeb Bush, hey, throw in John Wayne—they were all draft-dodgers. Not a single one of these mouth-breathing, cowardly, and meretricious buffoons fought for his country. All plumped for deferments. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani? Did not serve. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney? Did not serve in the military. (He served the Mormon Church on a thirty-month mission to France.) Former Senator Fred Thompson? Did not serve. Former President Ronald Reagan? Due to poor eyesight, he served in a noncombat role making movies for the Army in southern California during WWII. He later seems to have confused his role as an actor playing a tail gunner with the real thing. Did Rahm Emanuel serve? Yes, he did during the Gulf War 1991—in the Israeli Army. John Boehner did not serve, not a fucking second. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY? Not a minute! Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-MS? Avoided the draft. Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-AZ—did not serve. National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair John Cornyn, R-TX—did not serve. Former Senate Republican Policy Committee Chair John Ensign, R-NV? Did not serve. Jack Kemp? Dan Quayle? Never served a day. Not an hour. Not an afternoon. These are the jackasses that cherish memorial services and love to salute and adore hearing “Taps.”
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Majenta, what a very sweet note. I, too, hope you are thriving and thank you for the wonderful wishes. May I ask are you the Majenta that I used to know in NYC back in the 1990s? Just curious. --Lee
Best wishes from Majenta
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