Geoffrey D. Morrison 🇵🇸
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Writer. Trade Unionist. Novel FALLING HOUR out now with @CoachHouseBooks. Se habla español / og bare litt norsk også
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Joined March 2021
It is happening...I am really excited that I can share this news about THE COFFIN OF HONEY, which you may recall me mentioning at some point as "the UFO novel..." There's nowhere I'd rather see this through with than at @coachhousebooks, who are just the loveliest
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On January 7th I am leading a workshop on the long sentence at @VPL! Join us as we contemplate the various types and subspecies of long-runners in world literature and try our hands at some of our own. Registration starts on December 8th.
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It's 1938, it's the Day of the Dead, and you're at 'El Popo.' What's your order?
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If they made Austin Powers today, it would be about a guy frozen in time in 1995 – just two years before they made Austin Powers
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I feel really luck that I've been able to read Melville and now Cervantes in their original languages. Last night I was seized by this sudden urge to read War & Peace but to do so in Russian might be too much to ask of one lifetime.
Reading "Moby Dick", I get that bliss from every line as I get reading Shakespeare. One doesn't experience that with every writer. & much as I love Tolstoy, Chekhov, or Cervantes, there's a barrier as I read them in translation & don't have their exact words.
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It's interesting that the only things we ever seem to do "profusely" in English are to bleed and to apologize.
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I've certainly improved my Spanish a great deal since the start, although I still make stupid mistakes of the sort where I'm thinking of one word and say another. Yesterday I was trying to say "atar los cabos" but I'm afraid I said "cuerdas" or "cordones." Pero bueno...
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As you can see, my book has been through hell. I foolishly laid it on its side with other books on top, and it cracked the binding; I had to fix it with wood glue. It also got wet recently and I don't know how or why. But we made it. There is now a Sancho-sized absence in my life
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For the last year and a half, I've been in an online book club reading Don Quijote in Spanish. We meet every two weeks and carry out our discussions entirely in Spanish, guided by a teacher from Madrid. We have now finished the book, which I still find hard to believe.
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The episode with three Irish guests where the first guy says "I think I'm fine, thanks," sees everyone else ask for tea, and then says "Oh go on then I'll have a tea" portends every happiness for you and yours
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Devising a complex system of divination based on whether Melvin and his guests choose tea, coffee, water, or "nothing for me thanks" at the end of each episode of BBC In Our Time
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It's beautifully written in a way that didn’t take me too long to catch on to despite my obvious linguistic handicaps. I get synaesthesia when I read in foreign languages and if Spanish is air and spiderwebs and sunsets, Norwegian is dark clouds and cold, slippery stones.
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It is about a 30something named Ellinor who finds an unexpected vocation in helping the Postal Worker’s Union fight a 2011 neoliberalization drive from sellout social democrats. Given Canadian labour politics this year it's super apropos. I am not doing it justice at all.
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Yesterday I finally finished Vigdis Hjorth's Leve Posthornet! (aka Long Live the Post Horn!), which makes it the first novel in Norwegian that I've read cover-to-cover. I bought it in Bergen in May and have been working through it diligently with the dictionary on the left.
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I am a 34 year old man and I have a Substack. It is exclusively in Spanish, which is not my first language, and I write about leaves, cobblestones, and having a cold. https://t.co/Cusd1Xw9t0
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He's also really funny and enchantingly weird
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And the fact that he's reporting all these little details about a family of pigeons or why his printer isn't working *instead of* what he – and the Guggenheim Foundation – take to be his real task, finishing his luminous novel, gives everything ordinary a drama and a pathos
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This makes me ponder why La novela luminosa works so well even though on paper Mario Levrero is often just saying "Here's what I did today." Maybe because everything he does comes with the context of 60 years of habits and patterns he is still struggling to make sense of
What makes Annie Ernaux interesting is that she waits like 40 years to write about her messy and insane feelings with a degree of perspective and remove, always triangulating who she is now in relation to who she was then. Some of you are just saying “here is what I did today”
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The book itself was almost completely square, and the size of a coffee-table book. It was grey with flecks of red and peach, like a detail from Sunrise with Sea Monsters
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I dreamed there was another David Foster Wallace novel after Broom of the System and before Infinite Jest. It was widely acknowledged to be his best, and consisted of a long catalogue of abstract expressionist oil paintings. It was written broadly in the style of William Gass.
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