Collision Courses and Castration Anxiety: Rereading John Irving
#bookstodon #writer #JohnIrving #reading

https://themillions.com/2013/02/collision-courses-and-castration-anxiety-rereading-john-irving.html

John Irving: “What are they banning? They’re banning books about abortion and they’re banning books on LGBTQ subjects, What they’re saying to young, gay, lesbian, trans kids, they want them to feel even more alone and isolated than they already feel. They don’t want those kids to have access to material that will let them know they’re not alone. They already feel alone. There’s a cruelty to that that is unspeakable.”
#lgbtq #BookBans #transgender #abortion #JohnIrving

https://vtdigger.org/2023/12/27/best-of-the-vermont-conversation-literary-icon-john-irving-on-lgbtq-rights-abortion-and-the-last-chairlift/

People and books that helped form who I am today:

#GrahamGreene
#JohnUpdike
#WalkerPercy
#kurtvonnegutjr
#JohnIrving
#RalphEllison
#HermannHesse
#LorenEiseley
#JamesBaldwin
#JohnSteinbeck
#RayBradbury
#FrankHerbert
#StrangerInAStrangeLand
#MalcomX
#KimStanleyRobinson
#JulianJaynes
#SomeTimesAGreatNotion
#WendellBerry
#WhatArePeopleFor
#EdwardAbbey
#DesertSolitaire
#TomRussell
#CarlHiaasen
#MichaelPollan
#BotanyOfDesire
#PattiSmith
#MichaelStipe
#DavidSedaris
#CormacMcCarthy

#Existential angst is navel gazing through a metaphysical microscope.

As you grow, if you grow, you will find your now seemingly profound ramblings are not new nor particularly insightful except to you.

Infants find their own toes to be fascinating for awhile, too.

A list of #authors to pull self-absorbed angry young men out of the Slough of Despond:

#Kafka
#HarukiMurakami
#JohnFowles
#Dostoevsky
#JohnNichols
#JohnIrving
#TomRobbins
#DouglasAdams
#NealStephenson
#WilliamGibson
#JDSalinger

#7Books of a lifetime - and to #knowme - fiction only, no order …

Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit - #MarcelProust
Das Buch von Himmel und Hölle - #JorgeLuisBorges, Adolfo Bioy Casares
Land des Lachens - #JonathanCarroll
Reise um den Tag in 80 Welten - #JulioCortazar
Sudelbücher - #GeorgChristophLichtenberg
Erzählungen - #AntonCechov
Owen Meany - #JohnIrving
Leben und Abenteuer der Trobadora Beatriz - #IrmtraudMorgner
But ... Jean Paul, Büchner, Kafka, Woolf … Oh!
#books @bookstodon