dude... you never told me who you are getting married to! and when you are moving!? i'll be home friday for two weeks, can i expect to get some details!?? :)
I see you whilst you are home, yes, I will give you all the details you want. I promise. Currently, I am staying at the Kjelstrom's, if you want to find me.
Forgive me if we've already congratulated each other on this, but I love Saunders, too. Just bought my bass player Pastoralia for her birthday, and she also loves it...she's borrowing CivilWarLand in Bad Decline again since she read it hurriedly the first time I loaned it to her and wants to reassess it in light of her new appreciation. I'm so tickled that people are catching on to him, and I'm proud in that dubious geographically chauvinist way that he's from my home town of Rochester, NY...or at least was living there when he published CivilWarLand.
I do not recall whether we have discussed George Saunders or not, Whip, but I am not surprised to find that you are a fan. I have encouraged so many people to read his work, but I always have the damnedest time explaining just exactly what his "project" is. I often say that all, or most, of his stories are set in the contemporary United States, but just a little more so... "hyper-real" as Eco, Baudrillard, et al. would say. He is also, of course, hilarious, and satirical, but one never gets the sense that he is laughing *at* his always-hapless characters, more often laughing at the situation, which we find so awfully, painfully, familiar. The fact that both Keillor and Pynchon love him says a lot.
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and when you are moving!? i'll be home friday for two weeks, can i expect to get some details!?? :)
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