new www.coronasamizdat.com. Year of the Plague Rat by R. Leong and ASSISTED LIVING by R. Ontiveros

#literature #booktube #contemporaryfiction

[@AlexanderQuadros-eu3zi]

Exciting. I'll have to pick up the Ontiveros after I get to Vardeman's Suggestion Diabolique. And for what it's worth I'm team black&white Cactus cover!

[@AlexanderQuadros-eu3zi]

Glad you seem to be feeling better, Rick.

[@rickharsch8797]

Thank you

[@jeffburseyauthor6243]

Just ordered the two new books.

[@prabhsimranmann918]

What are the funniest books you have ever read?

[@rickharsch8797]

Gargantua and Pantagruel comes to mind first...it's a good idea for a book tube, so I'm going to think about it further...Brossard's wake Up, and his Raging Joys are in there...Catch 22...still much thinking to do...

[@prabhsimranmann918]

@@rickharsch8797 Thanks for the reply. You have already mentioned these books in your ‘meta-fiction’ video (I’m a fan)

[@RickHarsch]

@@prabhsimranmann918 Gilbert Sorrentino! Mulligan Stew, and everything else I've read by him

[@prabhsimranmann918]

@@RickHarsch thanks. They did not mention any of our (if I can say that) books on New Yorker best books of 21st century

[@RickHarsch]

@@prabhsimranmann918 We are small. They are big.

[@Smelly285]

Why is the cover ai Rick?

[@prabhsimranmann918]

What do you think of Denis Johnson and Joy Williams?

[@AlexanderQuadros-eu3zi]

Not that it means anything to you, but Joy Williams was born in my small(ish) hometown of Chelmsford, Ma! I've been wanting to read State of Grace.

[@rickharsch8797]

I haven't read JW (Lorrie Moore just came to mind as a funny writer...). I knew Johnson and found him dispiriting and lazy brained. I liked Angels, but nothing else of his...

[@rickharsch8797]

@@AlexanderQuadros-eu3zi I've heard good things...

[@prabhsimranmann918]

@@rickharsch8797 thanks. I found both of them funny. I also find Sergei Dovlatov funny.

[@rickharsch8797]

@@prabhsimranmann918 I'll have to check out this Dovlatov. Thanks