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Arno Schmidt: Evening Edged in Gold Published by Marion Boyars, 1980 Hardcover, 215 pages ISBN: 9780714527192 Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3OByfgX Arno Schmidt (Vol 1): Collected Novellas Published by Dalkey Archive Press, 1994 Paperback & Hardcover, 446 pages ISBN: 9781564780669 Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3Yc1vOi Arno Schmidt (Vol 2): Nobodaddy’s Children Published by Dalkey Archive Press, 1995 Paperback & Hardcover, 256 pages ISBN: 9781564780904 Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3rMFR7c Arno Schmidt (Vol 3): Collected Stories Published by Dalkey Archive Press, 1996 Paperback & Hardcover, 328 pages ISBN: 9781564781345 Goodreads: https://bit.ly/4750vzL Arno Schmidt (Vol 4): Two Novels Published by Dalkey Archive Press, 1997 Paperback & Hardcover, 432 pages ISBN: 9781564786623 Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3rOLpOw Arno Schmidt: Bottom’s Dream Published by Dalkey Archive Press, 2016 Paperback & Hardcover, 1496 pages ISBN: 9781628971590 Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3rP2FTU Today Episode in VIDEO: https://youtu.be/7rNngCEwCdY Today’s Episode in Text: PENDING Join us on /r/Arno_Schmidt: https://www.reddit.com/r/Arno_Schmidt/ Sections: 00:00 Intro 04:33 Arno Schmidt – A Post Mortem 10:21 In the Wake of the Wake 15:14 What the Hell am I Looking At? 26:16 Etym Theory – Uneartheing the Subconscious 30:14 John E Woods and the Dalkey Archive 36:33 Bibliographic Survey and Proposed Starting Points 43:08 The Elephant in the Room 45:34 Flex 46:44 The Elephant in the Room (Cont’d) 50:43 The Schmidtaissance, /r/Arno_Schmidt, Looking Forward Secondary Resources: 1. No One Reads Arno Schmidt: https://bit.ly/43Pp9BB 2. The Life & CV of Arno Schmidt: https://bit.ly/44MCawY 3. Arno Schmidt – Die freie Enzyklopadie: https://bit.ly/47cB0ML 4. Arno Schmidt – Writing Style and Personal Philosphy: https://bit.ly/3rUm85o 5. Comic Commentators on the Book of Mormon: https://bit.ly/457J4MZ 6. The Last Interview with John E Woods: https://bit.ly/3OeXJz5 7. Arno Schmidt’s Prose: https://bit.ly/3OcDXEo 8. Zettel’s Traum – An Analysis: https://bit.ly/3OAJ6HG 9. Review of Contemporary Fiction – Arno Schmidt Number: https://bit.ly/47cBt1t 10. New York Times - A Translator Takes on a Nearly Impossible Project: https://bit.ly/47ekags 11. How Does This Get Read: https://bit.ly/44SmHeY 12. The Word Count of 175 Favourite Novels: https://bit.ly/3KiTO3b 13. Longest Word Count Ranking: https://bit.ly/3rRHAZ3 14. Announcing the Relaunch of Dalkey Archive: https://bit.ly/3DzmLUD INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/wastemailinglist/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/wastemailing BLUESKY: https://bsky.app/profile/wastemailinglist.bsky.social THREADS: https://www.threads.net/@wastemailinglist EMAIL: wastemailinglist@gmail.com SUBSTACK: https://wastemailinglist.substack.com/ ANCHOR.FM: https://anchor.fm/wastemailinglist Music: “I Hate That” by ThisKidsNoGood https://www.youtube.com/c/ThisKidsNoGood

Arno Schmidt: Collected Novellas (Collected Early Fiction Vol 1) BUY IT HERE: https://bit.ly/3rNx2Kv Published by Dalkey Archive Press, 1994 Paperback & Hardcover, 446 pages ISBN: 9781564780669 Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3Yc1vOi Storygraph: https://bit.ly/3YaXPfR Today Episode in Audio: PENDING Today’s Episode in Text: PENDING Arno Schmidt Primer Episode: https://youtu.be/7rNngCEwCdY Join us on /r/Arno_Schmidt: https://www.reddit.com/r/Arno_Schmidt/ Sections: 00:00 Intro 05:18 Publication and Survey of Contents 11:42 Translation, Compensation, and Impossibility 19:31 Reclaiming a Stolen Language 24:16 Fascism and Antiquity 41:31 Notecard and Photographs 61:47 Legacy and Melancholy 76:47 End Notes 79:11 Centaurs and Cold Wars and Sci-Ops, Oh My! Readings from p. 23, 50, 80, 136, 170 Secondary Resources: 1. NYT - John Woods Dies at 80: https://bit.ly/3qcvdq0 2. An Interview with John E Woods: https://bit.ly/3OzXu2U 3. Mining the Dalkey Archive: https://bit.ly/44SmHeY 4. Umberto Eco – Ur Fascism (NYRB): https://bit.ly/3YfaDS9 5. 14 Signs of Fascism: https://bit.ly/44OWxJS 6. Ryan Kerr – Writing Its Own Wrunes: https://bit.ly/3qbuLrY 7. Arno and Alice Schmidt – Photo 77 […]: https://bit.ly/47cDkU8 8. Arno Schmidt – Calculations I: https://bit.ly/478s1w5 9. Zettelarchiv: https://bit.ly/3KlF0Rc 10. Klaus Theweleit – You Give Me Fever: https://bit.ly/3KkMGTI 11. Melancholia Opening Scene: https://bit.ly/3Kl9piN 12. Arno Schmidt Stiftung: https://bit.ly/3OcDXEo 13. David Foster Wallace Interview, 2003: https://bit.ly/3OcILJZ 14. Axel Gelfert – We Are the End of the World: https://bit.ly/3qcvuJy 15. The Congress for Cultural Freedom: https://bit.ly/3OyYjce Schmidt-related Twitter Tangents: 1. Enthymesis: https://twitter.com/wastemailing/status/1638827603330232321 2. Leviathan: https://twitter.com/wastemailing/status/1639194683229495296 3. Gadir: https://twitter.com/wastemailing/status/1639549358931853312 4. Alexander: https://twitter.com/wastemailing/status/1639832587119259648 INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/wastemailinglist/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/wastemailing BLUESKY: https://bsky.app/profile/wastemailinglist.bsky.social THREADS: https://www.threads.net/@wastemailinglist EMAIL: wastemailinglist@gmail.com SUBSTACK: https://wastemailinglist.substack.com/ ANCHOR.FM: https://anchor.fm/wastemailinglist Music: “I Hate That” by ThisKidsNoGood https://www.youtube.com/c/ThisKidsNoGood

“Solenoid” by Mircea Cărtărescu Translated by Sean Cotter BUY IT HERE: http://bit.ly/3AaRh6b First published by Humanitas, 2015 Published by Deep Vellum, 2022 Paperback, 672 pages ISBN: 0140110879 Goodreads: http://bit.ly/3hGF7M1 Storygraph: http://bit.ly/3TwKU3R Today Episode in Video: PENDING Today’s Episode in Text: PENDING Sections: 00:00 Intro & Preamble 03:19 The Find 06:16 Publication and Translation 11:51 The Fall 19:58 The Exhumed Reality: Taxonomic Considerations 33:04 The Borina Solenoid (Plot) 39:02 Flatland and the Fourth Dimension: An Intertextual Investigation 01:00:50 Mail Call 01:02:30 The Other Side 01:16:49 Iron and Crystal 01:34:10 Diaries, Dreams, and Departures 01:54:31 Afterword Readings from p. 1, 32, 37, 39, 42, 70, 71, 79, 98, 107, 108, 156, 164, 209, 212, 356, 378, 379, 434, 445, 456, 487, 492, 596, 673, 675, ∞ Secondary Resources: 1. Solenoid – The Untranslated Review: http://bit.ly/3UAYxAa 2. Blinding Vol 1 – Video Review: http://bit.ly/3UUx6RJ 3. Poesia esencial: http://bit.ly/3tsGpwD 4. Romanian Literature Now – Solenoid: http://bit.ly/3tt28Ve 5. Nicolae Manolescu: http://bit.ly/3GdUR3h 6. De Reactor Interview via The Untranslated: http://bit.ly/3AeML6t 7. The Dimensions of Solenoid (II): http://bit.ly/3EDQTjj 8. Your Surrealist Literature Starter Kit: http://bit.ly/3tvtNF3 9. Maica Domnului Google Pin: http://bit.ly/3UWnGW3 10. Solenoid Coil: http://bit.ly/3hECxWJ 11. Smale-Williams Solenoid: http://bit.ly/3E8f0oH 12. Edwin Abbott – Flatland .pdf: http://bit.ly/3Epul4v 13. Il Manifesto Interview: http://bit.ly/3Gi1KjU 14. Arnolfini Portrait: http://bit.ly/3UQuuEu 15. Trompe l’Oeil: http://bit.ly/3O0GQb3 16. Escaping Criticism: http://bit.ly/3txmv3m 17. Blackwood – A Victim of Higher Space .pdf: http://bit.ly/3WRPHQa 18. A Victim of Higher Space Review: http://bit.ly/3AcUoue 19. The Poetics of the Hypercycle: http://bit.ly/3E2GhZD 20. Seeking the Doom of Self-Annihilation: http://bit.ly/3Gj29Tr 21. From Blinding to Solenoid: http://bit.ly/3hJq6IY 22. Socialist Paradise or Tower of Total Surveillance: http://bit.ly/3huAnZw 23. Hinton Cubes: http://bit.ly/3WYGUvZ 24. DeWitt – Moral Authority: http://bit.ly/3E1XhPE 25. Balcanu – Real and fantastic Bucharest: http://bit.ly/3g5p21O

“The Logos” by Mark De Silva BUY IT HERE (Splice UK): https://bit.ly/3Sueh7D PRE-ORDER IT HERE (Clash Books USA): https://bit.ly/3QX2DAp First published by Splice, 2022 Published (pending) by Clash Books, 2022 Paperback, 1036 pages ISBN: 1919639829 Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3QmxGp5 Storygraph: https://bit.ly/3SuRSab Today's Episode in Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZAZmzj4CkU&ab_channel=WASTEMailingList Sections: 00:00 Intro 02:31 The Problem with Big Books 07:35 Plot 13:14 Prose Style 17:53 In Conversation with Mark De Silva 01:14:05 Cabinet of Curiosities 01:21:46 The Utility of Mystery Readings from p. 1, 104, 106, 161, 329/30, 343, 360/1, 411, 636, 637 Secondary Resources: 1. Mark De Silva on Beyond the Zero: https://bit.ly/3K86NTS 2. In Defence of Writing Books […]: https://bit.ly/3wjkXfn 3. Indie Splice Snaps Up De Silva […]: https://bit.ly/3QX2DAp Thank you to Daniel Davis Wood for the ARC and thank you to Mark De Silva for your time in participating in today’s episode. Daniel Davis Wood Twitter: https://twitter.com/danieldaviswood Mark De Silva Twitter: https://twitter.com/markdesilva1?lang=en You can find more of Mark’s work on his website: https://mark-de-silva.com/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/wastemailinglist/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/wastemailing EMAIL: wastemailinglist@gmail.com SUBSTACK: https://wastemailinglist.substack.com/ ANCHOR.FM: https://anchor.fm/wastemailinglist Music: “I Hate That” by ThisKidsNoGood https://www.youtube.com/c/ThisKidsNoGood

“Their Four Hearts” by Vladimir Sorokin, translated by Max Lawton BUY IT HERE: https://amzn.to/3OlMvaX First published until the title Сердца Четырех by Конец Века, 1994 First published in English by Dalkey Archive Press, 2022 Paperback, 209 pages ISBN: 9781628973969 Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3A5k1Ov Storygraph: https://bit.ly/3NkVsA6 Sections: 00:00 Preamble 03:29 Vladimir Sorokin: A Brief History 07:38 Publication History 09:13 Plot & Satirical Intent 14:59 The Russian De Sade (feat. Max Lawton) 01:07:44 On Violence and Libido 01:15:21 The Aesthetics of Resistance 01:21:59 End Notes Readings from p. 72, 116 Secondary Resources: 1. Vladimir Sorokin: https://bit.ly/3u1HlZI 2. The Shock Jock of Russian Letters: https://bit.ly/3OKtD5o 3. Moscow Conceptualists: https://bit.ly/3niUHNi 4. He Envisioned a Nightmare […] Living in One: https://nyti.ms/3ndQx9v 5. Vladimir Sorokin – Сердца Четырех: https://bit.ly/3AlbY0b 6. Socialist Realism: https://bit.ly/3NmN0jB 7. Interview with Max Lawton: https://bit.ly/3uq7oKj 8. Vladimir Putin […] Power: https://bit.ly/3xXMmmY 9. Camille Paglia – Sexual Personae: https://bit.ly/3HZOxeA 10. Long Live Socialist Realism: https://bit.ly/3NrbqZb My thanks to Dalkey Archive Press for the review copy, and to Max Lawton for his time and attention. Max Lawton on Beyond the Zero: https://bit.ly/3NnyaJQ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/wastemailinglist/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/wastemailing EMAIL: wastemailinglist@gmail.com SUBSTACK: https://wastemailinglist.substack.com/ ANCHOR.FM: https://anchor.fm/wastemailinglist MY BEYOND THE ZERO INTERVIEW: https://bit.ly/36vqoyd Music: “I Hate That” by ThisKidsNoGood https://www.youtube.com/c/ThisKidsNoGood #VladimirSorokin #RussianLiterature #TheirFourHearts #Telluria #DayOfTheOprichnik #PostSovietLiterature #SocialistRealism #Satire #TransaltedLiterature #BookReview #BookAnalysis #Postmodernism #PostmodernLit #FyodorDostoyevsky #Dostoyevsky #LeoTolstoy #NikolaiGogol #LeafByLeaf #BetterThanFood #SherdsTube #TravelThroughStories

“Blinding” by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Sean Cotter BUY IT HERE: https://amzn.to/3w9OUxr First published by Editura Humanitas, 1996 Published by Archipelago, 2013 Paperback, 464 pages ISBN: 1935744844 Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3shxjTm Storygraph: https://bit.ly/3yCXojN Today Episode in Video: PENDING Today’s Episode in Text: PENDING Sections: 00:00 Prelude 02:17 Preamble and Context 04:39 Cărtărescu’s Opus 08:05 Publication History 11:24 Translation 17:08 The Tyranny of Plot 23:08 Structural Conceit 33:04 Memory & Imaginative Construction 45:45 A New Religion 54:18 End Notes Readings from p. 22, 40, 43, 74, 88, 128, 252, 284, 309, 339, 311, 313, 338, 462 Secondary Resources: 1. WWB – An Interview with Mircea Cărtărescu: https://bit.ly/3wcJuC1 2. Mircea Cărtărescu by Ella Veres: https://bit.ly/3M0GUFT 3. Music & Lit – In Conversation with Mircea Cărtărescu: https://bit.ly/3yqq27y 4. Humanitas (Publishing House): https://bit.ly/3vYrnRj 5. CATranslation – Sean Cotter Interview: https://bit.ly/3KYOhfu 6. Archipelago Books - About: https://archipelagobooks.org/about/ 7. Archipelago Books: https://bit.ly/3Ft8d9o 8. EuroLit Network – From BLINDING: https://bit.ly/3M49ING 9. Archipelago – Translator Sean Cotter: https://bit.ly/38bjNd9 10. Open Letter Books: https://www.openletterbooks.org/ 11. HuffPost – Sean Cotter on Translating Blinding: https://bit.ly/3wiX2fh 12. KCRW Bookworm – David Foster Wallace 1996: https://kcrw.co/38ku2M1 13. Anca Balcanu – Real & Fantastic Bucharest (2007): https://bit.ly/3vV2m9F 14. KROnline - We Are All the Result of Chaos: https://bit.ly/3yoAsEu INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/wastemailinglist/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/wastemailing EMAIL: wastemailinglist@gmail.com SUBSTACK: https://wastemailinglist.substack.com/ ANCHOR.FM: https://anchor.fm/wastemailinglist Music: “Reading Music Vol. 2” by Christopher Charles Robinson https://bit.ly/3MZvja5 #BookReview #BookAnalysis #Postmodernism #PostmodernLit #LeafByLeaf #BetterThanFood #MirceaCartarescu #MirceaCărtărescu #TranslatedLit #BookerPrize #TranslatedLiterature #RomanianLiterature #ArchipelagoBooks #SherdsTube #Literature #Translators #Romania #EuropeanLiterature #SeanCotter #EugeneIonesco #MirceaEliade #HertaMüller

“You Bright and Risen Angels” by William T. Vollmann BUY IT HERE: https://amzn.to/3KXV7lO First published by Andre Deutsch, 1987 Published by Penguin Books, 1988 Paperback, 635 pages ISBN: 0140110879 Goodreads: https://bit.ly/37EJ3HS Storygraph: https://bit.ly/3itWTiB Sections: 00:00 Preamble 04:06 VOLLMANNIA 05:47 The Programmer 12:14 Angels at a Glance 18:00 The Cartoon 23:54 Source Code 30:08 The Eternal Winner 34:46 A Bug’s Life 41:30 Paging Dr Dodger 49:36 Cowboys and Indians 65:33 A Response to the Critics 74:04 Recommendations 77:19 End Notes Readings from p. 4, 9, 12, 15, 17, 34, 65, 111, 153, 173, 195, 266, 345, 407/8, 409, 632 Today’s Episode in Text: https://wastemailinglist.substack.com/publish/post/50779512 Secondary Resources: 1. VOLLMANNIA Podcast: https://vollmannia.buzzsprout.com/ 2. Talking Writing with William T Vollmann: https://bit.ly/3ioeCrN 3. William T Vollmann: https://nyti.ms/3L67g8i 4. You Are Now Entering […]: https://bit.ly/3JvcytH 5. Why the Phrase ‘Late Capitalism’ […]: https://bit.ly/3L7Y6sd 6. The Dispassionate Chronicler: https://lat.ms/3N9QFm5 7. KCRW Bookworm Interview: https://kcrw.co/3ItlsGX 8. William T Vollmann Critical Companion: https://bit.ly/3Ju97nd 9. Kirkus Review: https://bit.ly/3D3zBK0 10. ReadWatchGame Review: https://bit.ly/3N85FRj 11. Gordseller Review: https://bit.ly/3isiE25 12. FBI Suspect William T Vollmann […]: https://n.pr/3iqAsL7 INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/wastemailinglist/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/wastemailing EMAIL: wastemailinglist@gmail.com SUBSTACK: https://wastemailinglist.substack.com/ ANCHOR.FM: https://anchor.fm/wastemailinglist Music: “I Hate That” by ThisKidsNoGood https://www.youtube.com/c/ThisKidsNoGood #WilliamTVollmann #WilliamVollmann #YouBrightAndRisenAngels #EuropeCentral #Vollmann #BookReview #BookAnalysis #Postmodernism #PostmodernLit #ThomasPynchon #Pynchon #GravitysRainbow #WilliamSBurroughs #LeafByLeaf #BetterThanFood

“Animal Money” by Michael Cisco BUY IT HERE: https://amzn.to/3goKGe7 Published by Lazy Fascist Press Paperback, 780 pages ISBN: 1621052125 Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3oog8gM Storygraph: https://bit.ly/3LbNtW0 Today’s episode is also available on: Video – YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooayiZ9AYis&ab_channel=WASTEMailingList) Text – SubStack (https://wastemailinglist.substack.com/p/animal-money-book-review) Sections 00:00 Intro 00:57 Gratitude, Updates, Plans 03:38 Finding Animal Money 05:30 Who the Hell is Michael Cisco? 07:33 Lazy Fascist Press 09:41 Outline and Structure 11:46 Plot…? 17:47 (In)visible Hands 20:35 Economic Mysticism 26:07 /r/AntiWork, A Novel Reading of Animal Money 31:15 Genre & Influence 38:16 Cover Art 40:01 The Human Cost 46:00 You Owe Me a Bird 51:25 End Notes Readings from p. 16, 20, 27, 105, 110, 111, 114, 115, 171, 483, 502, 536, 537, 635, 765, 770 Secondary Resources: 1. Michael Cisco – Biography: https://bit.ly/3GwPJDQ 2. Introduction to The DivinityStudent: https://bit.ly/3GwPJDQ 3. Michael Cisco – Bibliography: https://bit.ly/3grmfN1 4. Michael Cisco on Kafka’s Kurau Aphorisms: https://bit.ly/3rqjRfH 5. Farewell to Lazy Fascist Press: https://bit.ly/3skxLzh 6. Invisible Hand: https://bit.ly/3rwEQxE 7. Economic Mysticism - Why People Believe […]: https://bit.ly/3gouzwY 8. AntiWork: https://bit.ly/3uBNsoi 9. An Interview with Michael Cisco: https://bit.ly/3LbGQTI 10. Weird Fiction Review Interview: https://bit.ly/3gruFE1 11. Lazy Fascist Press announces “Animal Money”: https://bit.ly/3Hw9DQJ 12. Mat Brown – “Anthropic History”: https://arthur.io/art/mat-brown/anthropic-history?crtr=1 13. Toribio Romo González: https://bit.ly/3B2X10I 14. Shunryū Suzuki: https://bit.ly/3otipHE 15. The Zen Predator of the Upper East Side: https://bit.ly/3uuATLF INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/wastemailinglist/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/wastemailing EMAIL: wastemailinglist@gmail.com SUBSTACK: https://wastemailinglist.substack.com/p/coming-soon?showWelcome=true Music: “I Hate That” by ThisKidsNoGood (https://www.youtube.com/c/ThisKidsNoGood)