Thanks for the recommendation. Evenson now has become my go to author, especially if I am not sure what to read next. Too many titles, too many good authors but he's the one for me.

As always, great review. Looking forward to reading this book.

@Scottmbradfield

5 жыл бұрын

PRAGJYOTISH BHUYAN GOGOI Thanks Pragjyotish! You should definitely try some Evenson!

In the last month, I read Song for the Unraveling of the World and The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell. Evenson's stories certainly are lean in the prose department. They did remind me of De Maupassant. Also Aickman and J.G. Ballard. The strongest compliment I can give to Evenson is that two friends of mine are getting his stories for Christmas.

@Scottmbradfield

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like him. Try his novel IMMOBILITY? I haven't read the GLASSY collection yet myself! s

I discovered Brian Evenson about a month ago. Fantastic writer. Nice video.

@Scottmbradfield

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Ryan. Welcome to the bathtub! Try Evenson's novel, Immobility. That's really funny and dark.

@ryanlombardi8870

4 жыл бұрын

@@Scottmbradfield I will. Just subscribed; forgot to the other day.

Finished Last Days today. You're right, the first half is a jaw dropping read! I was impressed with Evenson's skill as a writer and as a horror story writer The second section was slightly unwieldy, but the last ten pages pulled it off. Evenson creates a parallel world with no connection to our "reality". I hope it doesn't, anyway.

@Scottmbradfield

5 ай бұрын

Brilliant book. Try IMMOBILITY which is a better novel length story. s

Evenson is great, and truly unique. I discovered him years ago with "the wavering knife". I can't always read him, i put his books on the shelf waiting for the right moment. It's like i need to be on a certain mood or something. But when it clicks... it's a great experience.

Thanks for this Scott. You must have read my mind because when I read your article where you reviewed Evenson, Bob-Waksberg and Fowler I was thinking to myself "I hope Scott does a video about these." Keep up the good work.

Been having my own 'short story round-a-bout' with a bunch of the authors you've talked about on the show. Loving Evenson, and tend to return to him the most after Maupassant, my favorite read of 2022. Matter of fact, hardly have I found a living author I can dig as much as Evenson. I'm worried I wont get the most out of Singer without a better working knowledge of the Torah and Jewish religion, but.I loved Aickman. Curious, have you read Charles Willeford? A sacred cow author i have weird aversion to is Vonnegut... maybe that's stupid. Are you a fan?

@Scottmbradfield

Жыл бұрын

Maupassant and Evenson go well together on the roundabout! But so does Singer, who writes about yiddish people and neighborhoods but you won't need to follow along with the Torah! He's just a great story teller! S. P.S. I like some of Willeford (and Vonnegut) a lot! MIAMI BLUES!!!

Hi Scott, Evenson is one of my favourite living (as they say) writers. I've read all his collections save the latest, which I have but not started yet. Glad you mentioned IMMOBILITY which I thought was fantastic too. I also have to hand THE WARREN, a novella set in the same apocalyptic world as IMMOBILITY. I wasn't aware that LAST DAYS is in fact two novellas one being the "mutilation" story, so thanks!

Thanks Tonk, Andy and Norman. Yeah, once you read an Evenson story it's hard to compare him to anybody else!

Almost every story so far seems to be a cop out: they’re crazy. I don’t see the appeal. The therapist story, the filmmaker, the child abductor, the two kids in the cylindrical house. He’s the male version of Alice Munro except it’s psychosis in place of Canada.