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good. and sad. An audio discussion of NYLUND, THE SARCOGRAPHER with Sarah and Pablo D'Stair can be found at the following link to the literature discussion podcast "P.
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NOTE: The Three Star rating was chosen not as a reflection of opinion, but because we feel that it best represents the nuanced discussion.
We do not really "do" star ratings : Murder / incest / Department stores / in some sort of noirish steampunkish past city
Has paired well w/thinking thru some writers on space/spaciality and "the body.
" Pathology of Nylund makes him hyper alert to space, surface texturesreveals and revels in the unbearability of what we move thru, inhabit.
The mass of detail, how it is vertiginous and sometimes intoxicating subverted my desire to assemble a linear narrative, Just lingered where I was invited to, Hurrah"The muddy carpet had looked like the Seine at night, streaked with pinky muddy light from the sky, or like a rosebank after heavy rain, or the aftermath of an allmale garden party: kinky.
Nylund had walked by the large department stores and seen small nodes of women emerge wearing hats as if guiding a flotilla of flowery islands down a river of Nereids' hair.
The effect proved artificial like a Victorian night charade, each woman's head gleaming with a prowshaped coif which bore up the sheaf of flowers.
It was afternoon as Nylund watched this incredible current emerge and pull to a thread in both directions down the sidewalk, then then out completely and disappear.
" here: sitelink prickofthespindle. com/revi Fiction. "If Vladimir Nabokov wanted to seduce Nancy Drew, he'd read her NYLUND, THE SARCOGRAPHER one dark afternoon over teacups of whiskey, Welcome to fiction's new femme fatale, Joyelle McSweeney, "Kate Bernheimer. "You thought you knew your own language, This book hands it back to you on a platter and includes the instructional manual for its further use, "Michael Martone. NYLUND, THE SARCOGRAPHER is a baroque noir, Its eponymous protagonist is a loner who tries to comprehend everything from the outside, like a sarcophagus, and with analogously ornate results.
The method by which the book was written, and by which Nylund experiences the world, is thus called sarcography, Sarcography is like negative capability on steroids this ultrasusceptibility entangles Nylund in both a murder plot and a plot regarding his missing sister, Daisy.
As the murder plot places Nylund in increasing danger, his sensuous memories become more present than the present itself, Joyelle McSweeney is a poet, playwright, novelist, critic, and professor at the University of Notre Dame, She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard before earning an MPhil from Oxford and an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop, With sitelink Johannes Göransson, McSweeney founded and edits Action Books, an international press for poetry and translation, The press focuses on modern and contemporary works from Latin America, Asia, the US and Europe, including such major authors as sitelink Hiromi Itō, sitelink Kim Hyesoon, sitelink Aase Berg and sitelink Raul Zurita.
Action Books seeks to move poetry and poetics from other literary cultures into the center of US poetry

discussions and undermine the nationalist rubrics under which literature is marketed and discussed.
In addition to Joyelle McSweeney is a poet, playwright, novelist, critic, and professor at the University of Notre Dame, She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard before earning an MPhil from Oxford and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, With sitelink Johannes Göransson, McSweeney founded and edits Action Books, an international press for poetry and translation, The press focuses on modern and contemporary works from Latin America, Asia, the US and Europe, including such major authors as sitelink Hiromi Itō, sitelink Kim Hyesoon, sitelink Aase Berg and sitelink Raul Zurita.
Action Books seeks to move poetry and poetics from other literary cultures into the center of US poetry discussions and undermine the nationalist rubrics under which literature is marketed and discussed.
In addition to the University of Notre Dame, McSweeney has taught in the MFA program at the University of Alabama and as a Visiting Associate Professor of Poetry at the Iowa Writers Workshop.
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