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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I've only read a few books whose sole objective appears to be 'every single sentence needs to be revelatory'. Ulysses, Lolita, and Under The Volcano stand out most. Reading Permanent Earthquake by Evan Dara, it feels like a similar objective,maybe not execution - but Jesus it's unrelenting.

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national association of bodega owners @natbodega.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

The lost scrapbook by Evan Dara has the strongest first 10 pages out of anything I've read in a long, long time.

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mikechatoran @mikechatoran.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

エヴァン・ダーラ/ 木原善彦訳『失われたスクラップブック』(幻戯書房) 読了ものすごい読み応えだった。前半はラジオを手動でチューニングするときのように切れ切れに様々な会話が展開する。誰が何について話しているのかわからないものもあるが、それぞれのエピソードがとてもおもしろい。後半になってチューニングが合うと、ひとつのできごとにフォーカスされ、やがて前半の会話を巻き込んで怒涛の展開になる。そして..... 音楽的といってもいい構成だ。ダーラの素性がリチャード・パワーズなのではないかと思われたのも頷ける作品。他の作品も読んでみたい。/重版が決まったそうで喜ばしいかぎり

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エヴァン・ダーラ『失われたスクラップブック』
"The Lost Scrapbook" by Evan Dara

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The Evan Dara Affinity @evandara.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Colm Tóibín reporting from his home in LA for the @londonreview.bsky.social... www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Wrenn🍈 @wrenn.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

While reading ‘Permanent Earthquake’ I felt that Dara was slipping. Maybe that was a prejudice against the fantastical occluding my critical eye. Years on now I find myself reflecting on it weekly.

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The Evan Dara Affinity @evandara.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

From Evan Dara's The Lost Scrapbook...

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Dalkey Archive @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

And a “—Merry Christmas, the man threatened” from all of us at Dalkey Archive

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Patrick Masterson @pmmmasterson.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

It's about six and change from us if you ever wanna chance it. 2025: We live for the bit? Anyway, see ya on the other side of Evan Dara.

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The Evan Dara Affinity @evandara.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

"All this to say, it’s brilliant. It’s devastating, and hilarious, and among the best pieces of [f]iction I’ve ever had the joy of finding." #postmodernliterature

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The Evan Dara Affinity @evandara.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

"I seek out experimental fiction, but even having read countless books in that lane, this one still manages to do things with language that I don’t think I’ve ever seen done before..." #evandara www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Stewart Mitchell's review of The Lost Scrapbook

5/5: Sat on my shelf for years; knew it would be great but never felt like reading it (maybe because it looks so ugly); decided to finally pick it up because my goal in 2024 is to read the books/watch...

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The Hermit @staymore.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Those last 30 pages or so of Permanent Earthquake are still messing me up 3 years later. Not sure how he pulled that off. Such a great novel.

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The Evan Dara Affinity @evandara.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The word spreads slowly, but it does spread, one reader at a time…

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

“Literature – even though people usually study it author by author – is always a dialog amongst many voices which intersect and reply to each other within literature and outside it.” – Italo Calvino

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

Words must be *aware of* one another when they are put into play, otherwise each one would lie down on the page indifferently, as satisfied simply to be there as the things of pure existence are. - William Gass

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Mike Barthel @mikebarthelauthor.com · 22/11/2024

I had to pause this to finish Miley, but since that’s now in, I’m finishing this up. It’s going directly to indie publishers, so any suggestions are welcome!

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The Evan Dara Affinity @evandara.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Translation: "Evan Dara is great. There are no other similar works. I will definitely buy Kihara-sensei's translation. I have all of Dara's works. I also got the digital-only 'Mose Eakins' when it was released for free/with a tip system. @libro"

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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

These are my favorite books of the year. 1 Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon 2 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 3 Nox by Anne Carson 4 The Blue Clerk by Dionne Brand 5 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace 6 Permanent Earthquake by Evan Dara 7 Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu

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