Joseph
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Joseph
@thethoughtofth1
reading, writing. || Substack: thethoughtofthething.substack.com || Chapbook: bottlecap.press/products/someo…
Joined September 2022
Top four at the moment
what’s your favourite read of the year so far? #booktwt- I’m never going to financially recover from this
Kinokuniya Books in Shibuya has the most impressive selection of books I’ve ever encountered. All the heavy hitters from US and UK independent presses. Also, Miss Macintosh! - My phone is full of pictures of books I discover in bookstores for my to read list. Think I’ll keep a thread of them going here…… 🧵
- What happens when a friend asks me for book recommendations
- Just finished what may be my new favorite. The self reduced to almost nothing. The landscape in this book feels both ancient and ageless. First novel to make me cry in a good while.
- Blind Owl is perfect. Captures a state of nightmare as if it were written by one. In league with Dazai, Kafka, Dostoevsky, Ligotti, Molinard, Evenson, Dávila, NDiaye, Donoso.
- Exophony has some of my favorite writing on language, writing, and identity. Yoko Tawada was way ahead of the zeitgeist at her time of writing. Will be returning to this book often. Some of my favorite quotes below.
- Books I read as an adult that I wish I had read as a teenager
- Doctor said I have to have in rotation 1 essay collection, 1 short story collection, 1 philosophical text, one book of folktales, and at least 1 novel for the sake of my health.
- Kinokuniya Books in Shibuya has the most impressive selection of books I’ve ever encountered. All the heavy hitters from US and UK independent presses. Also, Miss Macintosh!
