@ZIssenberg

Writer of Miami! https://xitter.cf/t.co/hW0LJLruoz

Joined June 2021
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I've a ton of new followers recently, so I'd like to say: Hello! I'm a writer, editor, and educator who believes that experimental literature can be as fun as it's demanding. If you're ever looking for book recs -or even my own work- check out my website! shorturl.at/uQgpX
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It's the month of Halloween, my favorite holiday! I love the return of Fall with its transformative, melancholic moods and the lurking chance of terror. Every October, I try to reread, rewatch, replay, and relisten to select spooky works. Maybe you might enjoy trying them too?
The Black Cathedral, The Twenty Days of Turin, The Changeling, How German is It?, The Hole, Ambrose Bierce's Ghost Stories, Dream Story, Hurricane Season

ALT The Black Cathedral, The Twenty Days of Turin, The Changeling, How German is It?, The Hole, Ambrose Bierce's Ghost Stories, Dream Story, Hurricane Season

The Thing, Evil Dead 2, Midnighg Mass, Possession, The Wailing, Under The Skin, Paranoia Agent, Ghostwatch

ALT The Thing, Evil Dead 2, Midnighg Mass, Possession, The Wailing, Under The Skin, Paranoia Agent, Ghostwatch

Look Outside, RE4, Darkwood, SH3, Lisa: The Painful, Cry of Fear, System Shock 2, Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines

ALT Look Outside, RE4, Darkwood, SH3, Lisa: The Painful, Cry of Fear, System Shock 2, Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines

Giles Corey, Diamonda Galas, Boris, Clippng, Foetus, Soft Machine, Exuma, Sonic Youth

ALT Giles Corey, Diamonda Galas, Boris, Clippng, Foetus, Soft Machine, Exuma, Sonic Youth

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If I had to pick my most personal nine novels, I'd have to frame it around those novels which either provided a vocabluary for how I thought, or such violent "eureka!" moments that radically transformed my approach to writing. How wonderful that such lists continue to change.
Katherine Packert Burke@katpburkeOct 7
idk something like this
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Another weekend begun with my top 9! Since I first heard album, they've remained requirements on my every mp3 player. And specifically France The Mute's Japanese pressing, which includes its titular track.
Katherine Packert Burke@katpburkeOct 2
tried to cover my entire life, I swear I am fun at parties
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Just 9 albums was too cruel! I simply needed to expand the list a little more. Depending on the time of year, any one of these could be in heavier circulation than first set of essentials.
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Picking my top nine games is much harder than choosing among my favorite books! But if I had to curate, I would do so based on those games which I try to return to at least once each year. So many hours spent in simulations which draw further satisfaction from me each time.
Resident Evil 4, Knights of the Old Republic II, Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix, Bloodbourne, Nier, Rain World, Look Outside, Pathologic 2, System Shock 2

ALT Resident Evil 4, Knights of the Old Republic II, Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix, Bloodbourne, Nier, Rain World, Look Outside, Pathologic 2, System Shock 2

Katherine Packert Burke@katpburkeSep 26
can't possibly narrow down to 9 games from over the course of my life so here are 9 that I have played with my fiancee that we both love
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... and if I had the chance to expand that list further, I would! My artistic education has always been modular and multimedia. As our lives and experiences grow more complex, I appreciate an art form that comprehends our world in fantastical, ruthilarious fashion.
Disco Elysium, Personal 5: Royal, Lisa: The Painful, E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy, Deus Ex, Silent Hill 2, Killer 7, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, Ultrakill

ALT Disco Elysium, Personal 5: Royal, Lisa: The Painful, E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy, Deus Ex, Silent Hill 2, Killer 7, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, Ultrakill

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I've been asked a few times in the last month about books I've read and their context. Friends found it interesting, so I thought others might too. I'd like to talk about the best college class I ever took: The Blues Odyssey!
Zach Issenberg@ZIssenbergSep 12
Replying to @EmmettStinson
What a book! While not itself a secondary text, I found Paul Carter Harrison's The Drama of Nommo a great primer for Divine Days' narrative structure. The novel's language play was a delight, but reading narratology and performance as part of the novel gifted layers of payoff.
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The course clearly meant a lot to me! Taken in my freshman year, such lessons informed my own writing, the poems and fictions I wrote and the theories which invigorated me. The course taught me how to travel the world and listen in order to write my honors thesis.
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While such a course was a singular experience, its lessons are still available! Throughout this thread are links to the lectures and works that filled the semester. Such experiences are invaluable, those that encourage transformation and play to find and recall community.
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Everyone please share congratulations to @DbDjamel for winning the prestigious Ville Grillet residency, which will send my dear friend to Lyon among the great living artists of French language art. Djamel will be a giant in world literature, get ready! villagillet.net/articles/dja…
Zach Issenberg@ZIssenbergFeb 12
The next great writer is here! Djamel Bouchenaki's debut novel comes out next year, but you can read an excerpt now at @MinorLits. He writes a simmering, musical descent into fury like Rachid Boudjedra, Mathias Ènard, and John Hawkes before him. Get to know this future titan!
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Divine Days by Leon Forrest is one of the great U.S. novels of the 20th century! The novel's play with metaphor across language, narrative, and tones produces that collage of identity that coheres place and people. Like its peers, it's definitive of U.S. literary traditions.
Emmett Stinson@EmmettStinsonSep 12
This is unsurprisingly excellent but also funnier and weirder than I thought it would be.
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Discussing the greatest works of fiction from the new century can be a fun exercise in curation, but it's too early to sift the rubble. Any statement otherwise is probably marketing! More useful for us to ask: which new fictions could never have been conceived before our time?
Giles Goat-Girl@nadienadianadieSep 2
more or less true i think. still, there's some high-water marks, these are mine:
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Another birthday, another set of books! Moshi treats me with a needed dive toward Ferrante. Marlon James' ouevre is among the best in contemporary English usage; I'm ready for this new doorstop. This could also be my tenth consecutive year completing a new manuscript. Onward!
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While I mostly write and discuss fiction now, my formal training is in poetry! Sharon Olds was an unfathomably influential poet to me in my early education. Her poetry stands among my formative pillars and one of the first poets I recommend to new readers of the form.
Giles Goat-Girl@nadienadianadieAug 31
sharon olds
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