Tom’s Substack
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Monsterpieces: Deer Reader
Not a misprint. Trying to read the 1001-page Schattenfroh, I felt like a deer in Lentz’s headlights. I looked into the source of the simile though I was familiar with the practice of nighttime deer-jacking from my rural Vermont upbringing....
Tom McCarthy’s The Rhyl Poster
[For some years—it seems like many—I’ve been expecting Tom McCarthy to write a monsterpiece. An effusive admirer of Pynchon, a writer unusually knowledgeable about various sciences, a novelist uncannily familiar with postmodern literary the...
Monsterpiece? Jim Gauer’s Novel Explosives
[Looking at discussions of Big Books, would-be monsterpieces, I kept seeing references to Jim Gauer’s 715-page Novel Explosives published in 2016 by Zerogram. Reading it, I found a reference to Pynchon. I make some references to him in the...
Hyperparasitism
[I left my monster hobby-horse in the stable and wrote the following all-purpose, any-venue review of James Elkins’ new novel, Stories, Like Illnesses, with the hope the review could be published in some mass market magazine that would want...
Anniversary: Pynchon and Danielewski
[This week is the one-year anniversary of Monsterpieces, which took over the account once devoted to my memoir, “Passing Down,” now taken down. I write to thank all who have followed the site and those who have commented. Since my review of...
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At the age of 81, I've posted "Passing Down," the memoir of a lucky man whose luck ran out when he was diagnosed with cancer. Now that the memoir is finished, I'm posting "Monsterpieces," a decade of my published reviews of long novels.
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