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Re: Stuart Gordon's 1986 H.P Lovecraft Adaptation From Beyond is a Masterpiece of Body Horror on Par with David Cronenberg's Best Work

Tobias — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 03:58:02 -0000

Thrilled to hear about this series. I've been meaning to delve into Gordon's filmography, and between this piece and seeing Gordon collaborator Brian Yuzna's Society last week, I am looking forward to what's next.

Re: The Reading Life: Fewer Things to Make Fun Of

Tobias — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 12:08:41 -0000

Brendan -- I've updated the system so that pagination has been turned on for author archives as of now. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Re: Afternoon Bites: Revisiting Thomas M. Disch, Elliott Smith Biography, Marisha Pessl Interviewed, and More

Tobias — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 16:37:30 -0000

Making a slight adjustment now.

Re: Charlie took Pickle to RibFest so I could work,... - The Quotidienne

Tobias — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 18:03:28 -0000

I totally still rock my Nomad shirt from Euro 2008. Please tell me that there'll be some sort of soccer event happening when I'm in town that will allow for the purchase of commemorative merchandise.

Re: Celebrating “Swann’s Way” in Brooklyn Bridge Park

Tobias — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 10:45:54 -0000

RSVPs are not required.

Re: A Brief (and Incomplete) Guide to Norman Lock’s Fiction

Tobias — Mon, 20 May 2013 10:42:58 -0000

Absolutely. Still need to read that one, but -- am hoping to do that soon.

Re: #tobyreads: On the Aesthetics of Absence — Doubles and Disappearances from Calle, Bioy Casares, Blackwell, Davis, and Chaix

Tobias — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:19:35 -0000

Really. I was very impressed with that aspect of his novel...

Re: Wave Pools, Escapism, and The Creation of “Fight Song”: An Interview With Joshua Mohr

Tobias — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:17:55 -0000

Our apologies. Working to rectify now.

Re: An Excerpt from “Hair Lit, Vol. One” — Steve Himmer’s “Hard K”

Tobias — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:31:31 -0000

Apologies -- that's been fixed.

Re: Poll, please. There is a marital difference of... - The Quotidienne

Tobias — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:41:03 -0000

Team turntable.

Re: the adventures of jenn I(n) R(eal) L(ife)

Tobias — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:35:08 -0000

This makes me unbelievably happy.

Re: http://kristenquotidienne.tumblr.com/post/30755249914

Tobias — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 12:56:09 -0000

Huzzah for totchos, says I.

Re: http://bookavore.tumblr.com/post/27922259344

Tobias — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:27:09 -0000

I will totally listen to this theoretical podcast.

Re: Band Booking: Total Slacker

Tobias — Thu, 31 May 2012 14:18:00 -0000

Updated.

Re: http://jennirl.tumblr.com/post/12386326415

Tobias — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:31:59 -0000

This serves as a reminder that I need to venture back to the Commodore.

Re: How political pop punk taught me about P.G. Wodehouse

Tobias — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:36:52 -0000

For what it's worth, I wrote up the most recent Shipping News album about a year ago for Dusted:

http://www.dustedmagazine.c...

Re: Afternoon Bites: Proulx, Baker, The Rapture, and more

Tobias — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 04:39:37 -0000

Apologies -- was going from the Google Reader citation on that one. Have updated.

Re: http://bookavore.tumblr.com/post/9038420163

Tobias — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:41:22 -0000

I second both of those recommendations -- RED RIDING QUARTET remains some of the most harrowing fiction I've ever read, and NINETEEN SEVENTY FOUR one of the best impulse buys I've made.

Re: 10 Incredibly Surprising Film Soundtracks

Tobias — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 03:33:59 -0000

Dillon -- referenced the Greenwood soundtrack in the entry on Punch-Drunk Love. Both are pretty fantastic (and were unexpected); it was essentially a coin-flip decision in terms of which one was included. (I didn't want 20% of the list to be films by a particular director.)

Re: John Hawkes, eh?

Tobias — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:42:05 -0000

I've read four books by Hawkes now -- SECOND SKIN, TRAVESTY, THE PASSION ARTIST, and an omnibus of THE OWL and THE GOOSE ON THE GRAVE. (I have WHISTLEJACKET and ADVENTURES IN THE ALASKAN SKIN TRADE on my to-read shelf at home.)

I find that my reaction to his books varies more disparately from work to work than for -- for lack of a better phrase -- other authors of a similar stature: I admired SECOND SKIN more than I enjoyed it, but the emotions/evocations summoned up by TRAVESTY are still rattling around my head almost a year after I read it.

Maybe this is just a function of reading the books I've read in the order that I've read them, but I get a sense of him essentially reinventing himself with each book. That's part of what keeps me interested in revisiting him, even when the work itself might leave me (in places) cold...

Re: http://bookavore.tumblr.com/post/3844800308

Tobias — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:04:58 -0000

Finished it last night, and....I'm totally at a loss as to points of comparison. Maybe the closest comparison, in terms of linguistic experimentation and narrative structure, might be PALE FIRE*, but the two books are otherwise wildly disparate in tone.

I'd say that bits of its influence have shown up in other books I've read over the years -- Amis's THE INFORMATION and some of George Saunders's more surreal stories come to mind. I'd also be willing to bet -- and this is admittedly going outside of the realm of the novel proper here -- that O'Brien's novel has had some influence on Chris Onstadt.

(I will second the THE THIRD POLICEMAN recommendation as well. Terrific and weird and funny and sinister.)

*-which could be taken with a grain of salt, as it's been a decade since I read the aforementioned Nabokov novel.

Re: AttN: NeW YoRK: ThErE iS nO yEAR

Tobias — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:03:43 -0000

FB invite for the WORD event on 3/9:
http://www.facebook.com/eve...

And for the Center for Fiction event on 3/10:
http://www.facebook.com/eve...

Re: Three Cheers for Lady Writers of 2010

Tobias — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:36:08 -0000

Not to mention the "5 under 35" nominees: http://www.nationalbook.org...

Re: Five Preoccupations of the New Guy

Tobias — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:42:47 -0000

Welcome! Really enjoyed this, and am looking forward to what comes next.

Re: The Orange Eats Creeps

Tobias — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:30:43 -0000

I'm working on a review of this for Vol.1 now. I liked it a lot; it gave me the same unsettling feeling that the last section of Evenson's THE OPEN CURTAIN did. Plus, house shows and convenience-store robberies and psychic drift.