Shelf Tour 10: can’t ignore the floor!

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Published 2024-06-28
A nice variety of books and magazines. Including a special issue of Thrasher, my copy of The Dolphin, my 4th copy of Tristram Shandy, and some powerful photo books.
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  • @bedhead9975
    im so jealous of your penguin gaddis, love that cover so much
  • @TheBookedEscapePlan
    I also loved Eightball. Growing up, I was less interested in superhero comics and far more interested in books like Eightball and Minimum Wage and the books of Peter Bagge. Have you ever read "Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?" by Roz Chast? That's one of my favorite graphic novels. Tristram Shandy is hilarious. What a weird, weird book. A good friend of mine keeps recommending "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" to me. She's super into "Dead Stuff" as she likes to say, and knows I really like memoirs. I'll take her up on it at some point. "A Mercy" is very good Morrison novel. I did not know we are outliers in that regard. I know that Fran Leibowitz really likes it as well. I think Song of Solomon and Sula are tied for me, but it seems we basically rank the late great Morrison in the same order.
  • @donaldkelly3983
    S of S , Another Day of Life (about the Angolan civil war), and The Emperor (the overthrow of Halie Selassie) are quirky and revealing. John O'Hara was big up to the 1960s. He wrote about unhappy rich people. Then Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, and Tom Wolfe happened. His stories are supposed to be good.