just started 'The Sympathizer' and it's off to a great start

Grant Morrison >

Top writer of our time

Rick remender also very good

Who are the best writers just in terms of their use of the English language? I’ve been reading Lord of the Rings lately and have been amazed at Tolkien’s writing ability, story aside. Is there anyone else in a similar realm?

J.C. Bloem is probably my favourite poet. I'm not really into poetry that much, but I really love his poetry. Pretty much every poem from him is about death. HIs poem Insomnia is my favourite one. In Dutch it's better than in English tho, someone translated it to English:

Thinking about death I can't sleep.
And not sleeping, I think about death.
And life runs the same as the flight.
And every being is for non-being created.

How powerless sounds the ungenerous "to arms",
Where the will to life necessarily fights,
Next to the clarion of death's sharp push,
That the old man calls with a crack.

Just as a woman, who gave herself,
Must bear her child, like it or not,
For the child is growing within her womb,

Every being is pregnant with death,
And the predetermined goal of all union
Is no less the crib than the grave.

Nabakov is typically renowned as supreme when it comes to eloquent prose. James Joyce too.

My dad bought me a set of the Harvard Classics when I was younger. Been in my beedroom at our family home.

It has a reading guide with a short passage to read every day. Feels good to be back home for Christmas/New Years. Can’t wait to read some during my time back home!

Just finished The Name of the Wind

Just ordered an Amazon haul my kings

Just finished this kahlil gibran jawn. So hard

Went through my grandparents storage (rip) they had so many Balkan and Russian classics in separate volumes with really nice bindings and beautiful Cyrillic printing getting my uncle to ship them to Canada for me f***ing hyped

Also got some René Girard, Saramago, and Baudrillard from my mom for Christmas

Got the nickel boys and gentleman in Moscow for christmas. And Stephen Hawking brief history of time 🔥

I find it so hard to choose which book I will read next. I usually stare for at least half an hour at my bookshelf and then I just randomly pick one, because I suck at choosing

I need recommendations for books on Argentina’s political history, English or Spanish versions whichever is fine

Finished Kaveh Akbar’s Calling a Wolf a Wolf poetry volume last night, phenomenal stuff. Super strong material for a first collection. And I’m 2/3 through Toni Morrison’s Paradise. Amazing material, per the usual, steadily working through all her novels and she has yet to disappoint. I’m surprised she never published any poetry

Regarding some of the above posts, Terrance Hayes is my favorite writer in general rn

poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/57566/how-to-draw-a-perfect-circle

Favorite poem by him

You guys won't rate this but I am just re-reading Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. I really would like to get into something more highbrow but I find reading really difficult. Particularly if I've got my phone with me :(

Yeah lol reading in 2019 is hard as f*** that’s why it’s so rewarding tho... maybe start with a popular but exciting book like the Kite Runner or Girl with the dragon tattoo or a biography of a person your interested in so you can get back into the rhythm of reading regularly

reading highbrow stuff is overrated and HBP is a classic

They made Rupi Kaur writer of the decade
newrepublic.com/article/155930/rupi-kaur-writer-decade

Julien Torma wrote some wonderful "pataphysical" tales and poems. I'm unsure if any are available in English, however.

Never heard of this person before lol

pixeldrain.com/u/jn6f6pM1

So has anyone else read the brothers karamazov

I've got the ebook recently. I'm gonna read it after sprinting through fight club