The Evan Dara Affinity
@evandara.bsky.social
Steadfastly supporting the work of Evan Dara, "the best-kept secret in all of contemporary American literature" (Emmett Stinson).
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.
The lost scrapbook by Evan Dara has the strongest first 10 pages out of anything I've read in a long, long time.
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
The Japanese edition of Evan Dara's debut novel, The Lost Scrapbook, has been awarded the Grand Prize at the 11th Japan Translation Awards. Grateful to Yoshihiko Kihara (@shambhalian.bsky.social) and Genki Shobo (@genki-shobou.bsky.social) for carrying it across. evandara.org/2025/04/28/t...
The Lost Scrapbook Wins at the Japan Translation Awards
We’re excited to announce that The Lost Scrapbook has just won the Grand Prize at the 11th Japan Translation Awards! On April 27, 2025, the Japan Translation Award committee met in Tokyo and named …
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Colm Tóibín reporting from his home in LA for the @londonreview.bsky.social... www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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.
For those seeking a taste of Daniel Green's critical acumen, we point you to his thoughtful survey of Evan Dara's body of work (published prior to Permanent Earthquake): www.thereadingexperience.net/tre/2020/05/...
Giving Voice: On the Work of Evan Dara
(Pdf version) Although the term “postmodern” is still used often enough by critics as a convenient label for certain works of fiction that are considered out of the “mainstream” of current literary fi...
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Daniel Green@greenlitcrit.bsky.social · 2y agoNew year seems a good time to make this last-ditch pitch: I have mostly given up on writing reviews for external publications and moved entirely to the blog. Other opportunities seem to have disappeared. Any editors who might still consider something from me, kindly DM.
And a “—Merry Christmas, the man threatened” from all of us at Dalkey Archive
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.
"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/...
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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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.
The word spreads slowly, but it does spread, one reader at a time…
“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
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
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!
Mike Barthel@mikebarthelauthor.com · 2y agoLast summer I made the extraordinarily impractical decision to revamp my novel. After a lot of blocks, I just finished a full new version. Now it’s 80k words, standalone, speculative lit fic. Need to do edits but then I guess I’ll send it out again? Here’s the epigraph:
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"
Takeshi Sudo@artssoy.bsky.social · 3y agoEvan Daraはいい。ほかに似ている作品がないし。木原先生の翻訳も絶対買います。Daraは全部持っている。デジタル限定の"Mose Eakins"も、無料／投げ銭制度で公開された時に入手済みでございます。@libro
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
