>>24100573
>What’s that Novelist as Critic book about? Is it a collection of pieces?
It's an issue of 'The Review of Contemporary FIction'. It was a magazine run by the Dalkey Archive from the late 80s to the early 2010's.

This specific issue, table of contents in picrel, had the appearance of the first literary essay by David Foster Wallace. You can find the essay online, but i wanted a physical copy. As you can imagine by the publisher, the magazine was concerned with as a whole with the post-modernist crowd. Even for someone like me, the essays are a bit too niche for me to enjoy all of them, but it is good education.
And almost all essays are usually written by novelists themselves, rather than some rando academic/journalist.

The other two issues in my original stack, were colloquiums edited by David Foster Wallace, and it becomes a literal who's who of that era of novelists, essays by Franzen, Vollmann, Sorrentino, Wallace of course, Cortazar, Camile Jose Cela, Claude Simon, Goytislo, Jose Donoso et al.

You will probably get a kick out of the 'Writers on Writing' one, the grey one in my stack.

>Vico
will get to him one day. I've heard that Joyce based the structure of finnegans' on Vico's book. Also though to what extent this is apocryphal knowledge i do not know, but i hear that Joyce's entire oeuvre was mapped around Dante's own oeuvre. The four novels by Joyce, each corresponding to the 3 of the divine comedy and the Vita Nuova.

>NYRB
apart from novels, (excited for the malaparte and borges biographies), they have also become a great comics publisher, lot of the european classics of comics are finally being brought into print by them, and i will gladly give them my money for the same hah

>Fuller
yeah i've been hyped for the fuller too. You probably only told me about it ages ago, when i made a thread asking for new releases.

>Commune
I have also always yearned for something like that you know, the gentleman's club of yore, like you see that in Wodhouse a lot with his Drone's club, which just becomes a spot for his characters to commit their escaped and lounge about in. In comics too there was something of this sort.
There's this book by the son of a cartoonist called "Cartoon County" by Cullen Murphy.

In the mid 20th century, in Connecticut somehow all of USA's cartoonists lived in the same damn town, Alex Raymond, Milton Caniff, Hal Foster, Stan Drake, John Cullen Murphy et al. and these people were damn celebrities, their comics ran in the daily newspapers and had ten million to forty million daily readers.
The book recounts how all of these people, would pose for each other, like hey Caniff needs a quick model for a boy jumping off of a table, so Murphy will send his son to model for Caniff. These people would play golf, have races in their fucking cadillacs and jaguars. It just seems like such an enviable lifestyle to be part of.

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