Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:11:04 AM No.24508014
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Recommend some lit fictions like person by sam pink , mixtape hyperborea - /lit/ (#24508014) [Archived: 950 hours ago]
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 12:45:07 PM No.24508259
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:48:45 PM No.24509486
>>24508014 (OP)
>person by sam pink
Have you tried reading anything else by him? He has a lot of books in the same vein as Person, like Rontel, the No Hellos Diet, Hurt Others, the Garbage Times/White Ibis.
Pink has some different stuff from that, like the Self-Esteem Holocaust Comes Home, which is a bunch of surreal short stories (I think with vague continuity between some of them); I didn't think they were particularly great, but they reminded me of the short stories by Donald Barthelme, who wrote a lot of post-modernist short stories with no clear motivation or narrative to them, but they leave you with the feeling that you're seeing someone's personal secret sometimes (did that much better than Pink). Find a big collection of Barthelme's stories and start reading, though they took me time to "get the hang of," so to speak, but in a way felt like they were making more sense once I was immersed in them. They're fun anyway, and I generally pick the huge collection of his stuff up where I left off when I'm in between book.
James Tate authored a lot of (very) short, witty, strange stories/poems. The Ghost Soldiers is a collection of many of them, and he has a lot of recordings of readings online from that era:
https://youtu.be/MPJTXOMHTk4
https://www.jamestate.net/readings
I think Long-Term Memory is from return to the city of white donkeys, which I haven't read yet.
https://dreamertree.blogspot.com/2009/05/long-term-memory.html
I'd also recommend Suicide by Edouard Leve based on Person. A similar kind of perspective, though maybe morel like an interrogation.
>Mixtape Hyperborea
I read this recently and thought it was really hilarious at times, but the manuscript PDF I had was full of bad editing mistakes, like repeatedly saying "mildew" instead of "dew." Did remind me of Sam Pink's style, but if it were some idealised high school senior as the protagonist instead. I'd really just recommend reading more of Sam Pink's auto-fiction stuff if you liked it.
Did you read a published copy of it? I'm curious if it got another editing pass before he threw it on Amazon/etc.
>person by sam pink
Have you tried reading anything else by him? He has a lot of books in the same vein as Person, like Rontel, the No Hellos Diet, Hurt Others, the Garbage Times/White Ibis.
Pink has some different stuff from that, like the Self-Esteem Holocaust Comes Home, which is a bunch of surreal short stories (I think with vague continuity between some of them); I didn't think they were particularly great, but they reminded me of the short stories by Donald Barthelme, who wrote a lot of post-modernist short stories with no clear motivation or narrative to them, but they leave you with the feeling that you're seeing someone's personal secret sometimes (did that much better than Pink). Find a big collection of Barthelme's stories and start reading, though they took me time to "get the hang of," so to speak, but in a way felt like they were making more sense once I was immersed in them. They're fun anyway, and I generally pick the huge collection of his stuff up where I left off when I'm in between book.
James Tate authored a lot of (very) short, witty, strange stories/poems. The Ghost Soldiers is a collection of many of them, and he has a lot of recordings of readings online from that era:
https://youtu.be/MPJTXOMHTk4
https://www.jamestate.net/readings
I think Long-Term Memory is from return to the city of white donkeys, which I haven't read yet.
https://dreamertree.blogspot.com/2009/05/long-term-memory.html
I'd also recommend Suicide by Edouard Leve based on Person. A similar kind of perspective, though maybe morel like an interrogation.
>Mixtape Hyperborea
I read this recently and thought it was really hilarious at times, but the manuscript PDF I had was full of bad editing mistakes, like repeatedly saying "mildew" instead of "dew." Did remind me of Sam Pink's style, but if it were some idealised high school senior as the protagonist instead. I'd really just recommend reading more of Sam Pink's auto-fiction stuff if you liked it.
Did you read a published copy of it? I'm curious if it got another editing pass before he threw it on Amazon/etc.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:55:53 PM No.24509508
>>24508014 (OP)
Have you tried Tao Lin, his first 2-3 novels?
Have you tried Tao Lin, his first 2-3 novels?