/lit/ - Literature

>>2168230
I don't particularly care for Zürn, but anyone with an investment in the writing of outsider artists may want to take particular note of this. In addition to being one of those gals who wrote prolifically of her time in and out of asylums (Plath, Gilman etc.) she was the on-again-off-again muse of Hans Bellmer- One of the more visually engaging and still relevant of the Surrealist painters, and spent the end of her life living with him.

I Am Death, by Gary Amdahl

One of the contemporaries worth championing, Amdahl is a writers writer in the best sense. He has a good voice that often curves outside of the context of his story, winding sentences, and the courtesy to reference his predecessors without cramming it down your throat. In this story a failed journalist is fingered to participate in helping a Chicago mobster write his autobiography. The first paragraph:

>Death begins the story. I talk for a while, then fall silent. That's life: from "death" to "death," the story pops into being, miraculously, then you forget about it. In the middle years, you do what you can, you overdrive your headlights, you speed weightlessly down a road in thick fog, the road becomes a bridge, the bridge rises higher and higher, becomes narrower and narrower, then, achingly, stops in midair, pieces of it jutting blackly and dangling in the wind. The people you love most in your life are staring at you with hatred, you're shrieking at them and crying your eyes out, you can't stop, it almost feels good to sob this way. Abraham kills Isaac.

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>>1689298
Read these.