Auggie and others

It's the perfect week to purchase a copy of Auggie's Revenge.

Which Side Are You On by Ryan Lee Wong

Ryan Lee Wong's Which Side Are You On is primarily a short, satisfying novel of Korean American experience in South California, but it also connects to Black American experience, the L.A. riots, Chinese, Black, and Korean activism, mother-son relationships, and more. I searched online while reading this past week and learned via Facebook post that his father passed on earlier this year; the dad in the book bears a strong resemblance to the father of the obituary.

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And the Canon Rap Got Played

Read a zany one here or here.

brief note on White Mythology

I finished the longer of the two novels included in W.D. Clarke's White Mythology, and I highly recommend it. The novel I read is about 335 pages, and it is followed by a novella of about 120 pages. The longer one includes extraordinary sentences very reminiscent, at times, of the prose we see in early Pynchon, some Barth, Rushdie, and so on.

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Dr. Ed

"Dr. Ed decided to walk the rest of the way to the hospital. This took 20 minutes more, but further lateness seemed a small price to pay for sanity's sake. But he did not just walk; he never 'just' walked, of 'just' did anything. No! Dr. Ed made his way along the tidy sidewalks and streets with the unrestrainable vigour of a man in the full rudeness of health. He strode along determinedly, swinging his arms purposefully, in satisfaction of having the full knowledge concerning a certain undeniable fact: the undeniable fact that it took more than a few minor nuisances or chance inconveniences to put Dr. Ed off of his stride!"

~~ from White Mythology by W.D. Clarke

Meniscus

The Australasian Association of Writing Programs' Meniscus published a new issue. A year ago, they published "Chinese Sun." 

White Mythology by W.D. Clarke

I've only read the first ten pages, but this is the best written indie-press, English-language novel I can recall reading. Ever. 

 

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