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Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks.bsky.social · 8d

"[One could take] its aesthetic limitations as formal affordances... "Shadow Ticket" perhaps traces the attitudes and semiotics of pre-emergent fascism, [like a] historiographical broadcast from State fascism’s inchoate moment."

Cobi Chiodo Powell on Pynchon

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Intransigent Delay: On Thomas Pynchon’s "Shadow Ticket" - Cleveland Review of Books

Shadow Ticket perhaps traces, through the suppleness of form, the attitudes and semiotics of pre-emergent fascism.

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Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks.bsky.social · 8h

"a university is not a television station. a university is not a circle you can walk around. a university is not a telephone or a table lamp or a table. a university is just a plot device."

from "Groceries" by Nora Claire Miller @fonografeditions.bsky.social

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from "Groceries" - Cleveland Review of Books

a university is not a television station. a university is not a circle you can walk around.

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somanybooks24.bsky.social @somanybooks24.bsky.social · 8h

“The result is a multifaceted hybrid text that draws on and expands some of the most striking surreal imagery from her paintings.”
In @clereviewbooks.bsky.social‬‬, Eliza Browning reviews Leonora Carrington’s newly reissued novel, “The Stone Door” - clereviewofbooks.com/surreal-visi...

Surreal Visions: On Leonora Carrington’s “The Stone Door” - Cleveland Review of Books

What animal is more fitting than the horse to symbolize freedom?

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"'The Stone Door' can initially seem puzzling...[but] the seemingly disjointed narrative strands coalesce to form the story of the opening of the stone door and a metaphorical journey between one world and the next."

Eliza Browning on Leonora Carrington

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Surreal Visions: On Leonora Carrington’s “The Stone Door” - Cleveland Review of Books

What animal is more fitting than the horse to symbolize freedom?

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elvia wilk @elvia-wilk.bsky.social · 2d

For the @clereviewbooks.bsky.social I wrote about incorporating myself as ELVIA INC, believing that the only way to keep being a writer was to become a corporation—but instead I crashed my car, got dommed by Hobbes' Leviathan, and was ransomed by the IRS.
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Elvia, Incorporated - Cleveland Review of Books

I left the bank fully and completely realized as ELVIA INC, annual projected revenue: one million dollars.

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Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks.bsky.social · 6d

"It [seems] that a culture, no less than a mid-century modern chair, can get the Ship of Theseus treatment: rebuilt with a new part here and another there until, finally, it is both itself and not."

Philip Harris on Jenny Erpenbeck's "Things That Disappear"

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The Last Dinosaurs: On Jenny Erpenbeck’s “Things That Disappear" - Cleveland Review of Books

A cultural historian discerns an epoch in a carpet hanger. This was the theorist Walter Benjamin’s disposition, whose final, unfinished opus was a study of the Parisian Arcades (Passages) and all the ...

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Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks.bsky.social · 8d

"[One could take] its aesthetic limitations as formal affordances... "Shadow Ticket" perhaps traces the attitudes and semiotics of pre-emergent fascism, [like a] historiographical broadcast from State fascism’s inchoate moment."

Cobi Chiodo Powell on Pynchon

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Intransigent Delay: On Thomas Pynchon’s "Shadow Ticket" - Cleveland Review of Books

Shadow Ticket perhaps traces, through the suppleness of form, the attitudes and semiotics of pre-emergent fascism.

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Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks.bsky.social · 13d

"I now realized that for thirty years I’d had an imaginary Pietsch perched on my shoulder, and as I reworked sentences I kept (unconsciously) turning to him and asking, 'How about now? Would you take it now?'"

Vince Czyz on publishing & conglomeration

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Portrait of the Author in the Age of Conglomeration - Cleveland Review of Books

I now realized that for thirty years I'd had an imaginary Pietsch perched on my shoulder, and as I reworked sentences I kept (unconsciously) turning to him and asking, "How about now? Would you take i...

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Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks.bsky.social · 13d

"One wonders how Perec’s Jérôme and Sylvie might have responded to the upheavals of May 68. Latronico powerfully leaves us with little to imagine."

Gregory Jones-Katz on Vincenzo Latronico's "Perfection" @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

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Remote Controlled: On “Perfection” by Vincenzo Latronico - Cleveland Review of Books

With its narrative of the vicissitudes of the pair’s lives, Perfection distills countless analyses of the spiritual, historical, and political void into which capitalism has thrown life.

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somanybooks24.bsky.social @somanybooks24.bsky.social · 21d

“The narrative of ‘The Hairdresser’s Son’ is deceptively desultory, proceeding in short chapters that slowly ramp up into a plot.”
In @clereviewbooks.bsky.social‬‬, Rebecca Starks reviews Gerbrand Bakker’s newly translated novel, “The Hairdresser’s Son” - clereviewofbooks.com/rebbeca-star...

The Writer Paradox: On Gerbrand Bakker’s "The Hairdresser’s Son" - Cleveland Review of Books

Bakker has set himself a tightrope act of walking us and his characters across a moral breach: proceeding slowly enough to make us increasingly uneasy.

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 26d

Pasolini @ Bright Lights; Kurosawa, Aronofsky, and Spike Lee @newleftreview.bsky.social; Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Neo Sora @ Metrograph; OZ @defector.com; James Benning @clereviewbooks.bsky.social … and lots more!

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Enrique Irazoqui and Pier Paolo Pasolini confer during the making of THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW (1964).

Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks.bsky.social · Sep 3

"Without history, we risk becoming those ants of post-war Düren, struggling without their queen, scurrying around, aimless, suicidal, and without purpose, bound to repeat our worst mistakes."

Gus O’Connor on Michael Lentz's "Schattenfroh"

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Built By Language: On Michael Lentz’s “Schattenfroh” - Cleveland Review of Books

“The task of literature is to remember the dead,” we are told in Schattenfroh, and of course that’s impossible.

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Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks.bsky.social · Aug 5

"The ability to read oil is central in how it might allow us to read anew larger social structures that make the United States and its hegemonic global influences."

@vikamujumdar.bsky.social on Jung Yun's "O Beautiful" and petrofiction today.

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American Oil Encounter: On Jung Yun’s “O Beautiful” - Cleveland Review of Books

Here the sense of abundance comes sharply into focus—there is something indulgent here, something obscene, almost, in its abundance. Gas, a greatly desired commodity, becomes waste, situating oil as a...

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Ted @hesychasmtbh.bsky.social · Jul 31

I wrote about Sebastian Castillo’s new book “Fresh, Green Life” for @clereviewbooks.bsky.social about one man’s quixotic journey to the end of the night. clereviewofbooks.com/vow-of-silen...

Vow of Silence: On Sebastian Castillo’s “Fresh, Green Life” - Cleveland Review of Books

Rife throughout the novel are men adrift: young men looking for role models to follow and old men at the end of their charade.

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Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks.bsky.social · Jul 29

"God is dead like Gen-X self-sufficiency, Millennial irony, and Gen-Z cringe. God is dead unless you force her to live."

From an experimental essay by @danilamorte.bsky.social about Michael Greene's 1990's book, "Bataille's Wound."

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Conflagration/Words Wasted: On Michael Greene’s “Bataille’s Wound” - Cleveland Review of Books

What Greene sacrifices is history, is the idea that a decision has already been made and one can now sit back and simply be. Being is decision for Greene.

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Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks.bsky.social · Jul 22

Elina Zhang reviews Haley Mlotek's "No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce" (@vikingbooks.bsky.social)

Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks.bsky.social · Jul 22

"The cigarette, when it appears, is a bid for intimacy alongside tension and risk. With one man she dates after her divorce, he convinces her to smoke in the backyard naked... It is in the glow of this cigarette that I feel like I can see Haley at last."

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Stories Amidst Stories: On Haley Mlotek’s "No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce" - Cleveland Review of Books

The cigarette, whenever it appears, is a bid for intimacy alongside tension and risk. With one man she dates after her divorce, he convinces her to smoke in the backyard naked... It is in the glow of ...

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somanybooks24.bsky.social @somanybooks24.bsky.social · Jul 19

“He doesn’t let your gaze wander around the scene with curiosity: he insists you focus on one terrible act only.”
In @clereviewbooks.bsky.social‬‬‬, Rebecca Hanssens-Reed reviews Felix Nesi’s newly translated novel, “People from Oetimu” - clereviewofbooks.com/felix-nesi-p...

Fetishist Disavowal: On Felix Nesi’s “People from Oetimu” - Cleveland Review of Books

There is a humiliation to witnessing horrendous acts rationalized through structures of time and power. World literature is positioned as a means of resolving that problem, yet under this mode of read...

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Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks.bsky.social · Jul 13

"While a fantastic beat reporter and astute ball-knower, MacMahon both perpetuates and falls victim to Publishing's hastily-written-athlete-biography-industrial complex.

@podracingchamp.bsky.social on @bannedmacmahon.bsky.social's "The Wonder Boy"

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“I think it’s going to be fine”: On Tim MacMahon’s “The Wonder Boy: Luka Dončić and the Curse of Greatness” - Cleveland Review of Books

I was very disappointed to find that the book read as if the contents of MacMahon’s collected ESPN articles were dumped into a large language model, and directed to write a 300-plus page book about Lu...

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Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks.bsky.social · Jul 13

“Dylan knew that the only right thing to do would be to put down the spaghetti, remove the towel, drive the twenty minutes to the care facility, hug the woman, and tell her, no, his father wasn’t locked-in.”

New short fiction from Matt Weir.

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The Driver’s Seat - Cleveland Review of Books

If she did all of this today, Dylan knew that the only right thing to do would be to put down the spaghetti, remove the towel, drive the twenty minutes to the care facility, hug the woman, and tell he...

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Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks.bsky.social · Jul 13

Vol. 3.1 is out! Childhood detective agencies, aggro drift, poetry's desires, translation politics, writing that blisters, aesthetic disruption, thermal surges, and digital tokens. Bounded in beautiful sky blue.

Order a copy!

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Vol 3.1 - Cleveland Review of Books

Cleveland Review of Books, Vol. 3.1: Think cosmic poetry criticism, childhood detective agencies, class-conscious literary proposals, “aesthetic” drugs and aggro drift, Swedish literary stardom, genre...

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Dan DiPiero @dandipiero.bsky.social · Jun 27

I'm unreasonably happy to see this excerpt of Big Feelings in the one and only @clereviewbooks.bsky.social
Thanks for everyone's infinite patience with the footnotes. 💜💜💜💜
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from "Big Feelings: Queer and Feminist Indie Rock after Riot Grrl" - Cleveland Review of Books

Which is not to say that there aren’t good reasons to leave Ohio; it’s just that they’re not the reasons people usually assume.

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · Jun 24

Ok #Cleveland, I need you! I was supposed to be on local NPR tomorrow to share a CLE HTS #pride event at Mac’s Backs Sat at 7 (I’m giving a talk about my book about hope and joy in dark times). Show had to be moved—so please help me spread the word! #transrights #history #ohio #books

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Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks.bsky.social · Jun 12

A poem, “Food Science,” from Zach Savich for our “Appetite Studies” Cleveland Humanities Festival series.

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Appetite Studies: Food Science

The genius would be like—do you know the two ways to eat a beer glass? Like that was a situation we were often in. He’d learned it from Jasper Gallon.

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Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks.bsky.social · Jun 12

"It is only under a new moon I learn to take you seriously.
I leave my bed unmade, I show up late for work."

from "Fuel" by Rosie Stockton

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from “Fuel”

We could be many things – I could give it up, I could tell you exactly what to do.

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