Basho trans R Blye

 It is deep autumn

My neighbor
How does he live, I wonder.

ok 6:23  finished fruit fly   looked up anacoats, trendy district in manchester uk and the gower coast, trendy coastline in Wales.  the writer kills off her main character, the guy who was the inspiration for this character will now stalk the writer and drive her crazy even though she has always been crazy; story begets story begets story.  final acknowledgment is a toast to the void  and before that to Dune, the line "Fear is the mind-killer."  Kolt hated this book which made me even more curious to read it.  He didn't say why.  Maybe it is as non-infp as possible.  Writing novels to sell as game and shell-roulet-blackjack-poker as possible?  Readers cage writers like abusive husbands cage their crazy-sensitive wives?  "thriller satire" 

"The thriller satire (or satirical thriller) genre does not have a single, designated "creator," as it evolved organically from the blend of suspense, crime fiction, and social or political satire over many decades"

"rather, "cliché" is increasingly used informally as an adjective (as in "that's so cliché"), alongside the traditional and formally preferred adjectival form "clichéd" (as in "a clichéd plot")"

so at least one commentator (earlier post) thinks Fruit Fly should be on the booker list.  

would I agree?  hmmm

here's one of those highest praise comments  "

queer_novels

This book will break you in the way the most perfect literature should and it’s totally deserving of its unanimous praise. It’s so satisfying reading a book where you can immediately tell the author has not compromised on ANYTHING they’ve set out to do. Mesmerising, unrelenting, bursting with pain and rage, all-encompassing, almost impossible human brilliance. A massive, noisy, chaotic polyphonic masterpiece. Unapologetic in form. It’s floored me. I may not recover. Truly essential reading. The only time I’d use the word ‘raw’ to describe a novel without wanting to gag."

well, this morning I am remembering more Josh Silver's book and realizing how he played off of Virginia Woolf and Mrs Dalloway.  Big hit classics from the book clubs.  James uses the Canadian play, Fortune and Men's Eyes, so both are books about/from other lit works.  

Silver uses from Dune "Fear is the mind-killer."  James might have cited that passage also.

And.  His work much more about fear and anger.  Silver's YA style, "lite" satirical "adult" is silly-profound in its way.  Easier to enjoy, shorter, to the point.  Full circle also---yes, the victimized gay guy will now stalk the successful author, who may be poised to finally write the fantasy novels she really wants to write.  Whereas at the end of Disappearers there is a full circle of sorts but it does not seem to have any further promise within it.  

James is 55; Silver is 37.  Generational difference major difference!!!  British vs Colony