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MUDD UP BOOK CLUBB: The Loser by Thomas Bernhard & “The Loser” by Gay Talese

Last Mudd Up Book Clubb, the Naked Singularity meetup, was a great one, as Sergio De La Pava and his wife made a gracious appearance. Sergio was a passionate, funny, and generous guest, sharing insights which made our experience of his excellent novel even better. There was discussion of moral concern, conservatism of the publishing … Continue reading MUDD UP BOOK CLUBB: The Loser by Thomas Bernhard & “The Loser” by Gay Talese

MUDD UP BOOK CLUBB: DE LA PAVA’S ‘A NAKED SINGULARITY’

It’s true: the Mudd Up Book Clubb lives increasingly offline, but these posts form a useful public record, tracks in the mud, if you will – so here we go: This Sunday, April 28th, we’re meeting to discuss Sergio De La Pava’s wonderful, humane, laugh-out-loud funny, 689 page novel involving a public defender in New … Continue reading MUDD UP BOOK CLUBB: DE LA PAVA’S ‘A NAKED SINGULARITY’

MORE MUDD UP BOOK CLUBB KINDLE SCREENSAVERS!

I started the Mudd Up Book Clubb as a celebration of books, readers, libraries, face2face meetups, and all the hot people who love slow media. Last year I gave away hand-drawn portraits of all the authors we’d read so far by artist Rocio Rodriguez Salceda, and I’m happy to announce that we’ve added 5 new … Continue reading MORE MUDD UP BOOK CLUBB KINDLE SCREENSAVERS!

MUDD UP BOOK CLUB: ALIF THE UNSEEN & RITA INDIANA

The Mudd Up Book Clubb exists increasingly offline, but I shouldn’t let us flesh-and-blood meetup ghosts have all the syllabi, so — time to announce our next two selections, novels by Rita Indiana Hernandez (yes, that Rita) & G. Willow Wilson. The Mudd Up Book Clubb’s first selection of 2013 is G. Willow Wilson’s remarkable … Continue reading MUDD UP BOOK CLUB: ALIF THE UNSEEN & RITA INDIANA

MUDD UP BOOK CLUBB: The Other City by Michal Ajvaz

Every genuine encounter destroys our existing world. That’s a line from our next book clubb selection, Michal Ajvaz’s The Other City (1993, English trans. 2009). It is set in Prague, where an unnamed protagonist chances upon a book written in a strange script and slowly discovers the existence of another equally-present city, at once metaphysical … Continue reading MUDD UP BOOK CLUBB: The Other City by Michal Ajvaz

MUDD UP BOOK CLUBB: Nada by Carmen Laforet

The October Mudd Up Book Clubb selection is Carmen Laforet’s Nada, completed in 1944 when she was just 23 years old. First novels of this caliber are rare indeed. In many ways, Nada form perfect counterpart to last month’s selection, OuÅ™edník’s Europeana. Whereas OuÅ™edník presents the 20th ct seen through a kind of radically wide-angle … Continue reading MUDD UP BOOK CLUBB: Nada by Carmen Laforet

SUMMER OF MUDD

WFMU Summer Season kicks in this week — the mudd remains in its Wednesday night slot. We updated the show’s description though: Forward-thinking electronic music, regional sounds from around the world, hip hop, dancehall, and float. Frequent international guests widen the picture. Last two shows have been action-packed. Stream me a river: June 13: Iguana … Continue reading SUMMER OF MUDD

MUDD UP BOOK CLUB: MAY EDITION – TOLSTAYA’S THE SLYNX

[Татья́на Ники́тична Толста́я] For this month’s Mudd Up Book Clubb, we have a very special selection — Tatyana Tolstaya’s The Slynx. It is the only novel I’ve ever read which is both laugh-out-loud funny *and* has given me nightmares. Amazing. Some people call it a dystopia, and true – The Slynx does take place in … Continue reading MUDD UP BOOK CLUB: MAY EDITION – TOLSTAYA’S THE SLYNX