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I've moved things around a bit.  Still reading some of the stories in Tolstaya's White Walls but my main reading is Gaskell's Wives and Daughters.  It's essentially the story of how a middle aged doctor's second marriage impacts his daughter and step-daughter.  It's pretty slow, even for Victorian era fiction.  I like it better than Middlemarch, but that's not exactly a ringing endorsement.

After this Toews's A Complicated Kindness.

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Wrapped up Wives and Daughters.  Did feel padded in many places.  Overall, I preferred North and South.

In the midst of Malamud's The Assistant.  Fairly depressing.  Will probably wrap up tonight or tomorrow.

Then onto Toews's A Complicated Kindness.

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56 minutes ago, BillF said:

"The White Negro" essay had quite an impact on us would-be hipsters of the era. ^_^

Yes!  My friend Phil Ford wrote about that essay at length in his book Dig.  I emailed Library of America to ask if a possible "prequel" was in the works (such as 1948-59, incorporating The Naked And The Dead, Barbary Shore, The Deer Park, and Advertisements For Myself) to the two-volume Mailer 1960s set they just published, but they replied that they can't get rights to any of his other books right now.  

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On ‎3‎/‎31‎/‎2018 at 10:35 AM, ghost of miles said:

 

That recent New Yorker article about Kelley was fascinating—I had never heard of him before.

Yes. the article was fascinating, and Kelley was a very fine writer - at least that's my take after reading his first book.

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More stories to go in White Walls by Tatyana Tolstaya.

Right now am focusing on shorter works.  Just finished Ethel Wilson's first novel (or really novella): Hetty Dorval.

Then Lyudmila Ulitskaya's The Funeral Party (from Brad's list of 10 Russian novels, bringing me to 5/10).

Also DeLillo's The Body Artist.

Then Pablo Vierci's The Imposters.

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