The Interesting Times #290 (6.9.26)

Issue #290

• Reading her way. >>Said the Dead.

• Proust is in the room. >>Life of M.

• The confessions of Rachel Cusk. >>Life of M.

• Unhappy consciousness. >>Life of M.

• Soap opera and sci-fi. >>kluge.

• Pretexts. >>Girl, 1983.

• Nothing happens, and yet everything happens. >>Mr Outside.

• Reclaiming the mana of fatherhood. >>One Day a Taniwha.

• Six months in an English village. >>The Given World.

• Openly loathing the arts. >>That Was Not My Intention.

• How the sea might speak. >>Sea Now.

• Allowing things to be ambiguous. >>Sea Now.

• Depression and dimwits. >>How Do People Stay the Same.

• Wilfully written. >>The Tunnel.

• The something in things. >>Too Little, Too Hard.

• Admiration journey. >>Books by Thomas Bernhard.

• Writing the ‘almost nothing’. >>Blue Self-Portrait.

• The anatomy of a totalitarian family. >>The Anniversary.

• We’re taking this bloody car to Invercargill. >>Roadscapes.

• Ruthless in Waikanae. >>Deliverywoman.

• An intertextual tale of the American ‘Wild West’. >>Sunrise.

• After you’ve told your story of alcoholism and horrible sex. >>Stakes.

• Remembering nostalgia. >>Nostalgia.

• 'Ello John, gotta new memoir? >>How I’ve Tried to Change the World by Walking Down the Middle of the Street and Shouting.

• Wikipedia and the novel.

• Thoughts on late style.

• How to make a best-seller.

• A post-literate society.

• That disgraceful, disreputable, (wonderful) form of punctuation.

• Taiarahia.

• Our film recommendation this week: The Teachers’ Lounge.

• How to be a top reader.