"Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer."

~ Mark Z. Danielewski, born today, 1966.

#MarkZDanielewski #Today #Quote

local, (over)earnest, often amateurish, community-minded, enthusiastic, goofy, non-slick, DIY:

the novel #TomsCrossing is set in 1982, but flash-forwards show that later on (in-universe), many unrelated people make art, fan-art, folk art etc. in reaction to stuff that happens in the book.

if you know the fediverse AND read the lengthy descriptions of these artworks, discussions, exhibition spaces etc., you will think: "same vibe!"

#bookstodon #markzdanielewski

After 8.5 weeks, I've finished Mark Danielewski's newest, the 1200+-page tome that is Tom's Crossing. I languished, I complained, I doubted. And then, I cheered, I applauded, I was sad for it to be over. It's books like these that make me unable to quit a book I've started, especially a book I've invested a lot of time into. No regrets.

#bookstodon #MarkZDanielewski

Ich glaub, ich bin ein bisschen verknallt in diesen Vorschlag von David Vinchar für den #Genre-Begriff #Necromodernismus für Romane von z.B. #MarkZDanielewski, #AlanMoore und #DavidFosterWallace.

»Literatur als Entropiemaschine, als eine Nekropole der Signifikanten … gebrochen, provisorisch, gespenstisch heimgesucht … Dies ist ein Schreiben, das im Leichnam des Romans west, ihn mit geisterartigen Signalen weiterhin am Leben erhält«, wie der Perlentaucher exzerpziert.

https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/necromodernist-architectures-in-contemporary-writing/

Los mejores libros que he leído en 2025

Año tras año (y ya van ocho) tengo la costumbre de publicar una entrada a finales de Diciembre recomendando las mejores series, películas, libros, juegos y música que he disfrutado durante los últimos doce meses. En 2025 tenía intención de hacerlo de nuevo, pero me dio muchísima pereza ponerme a rebuscar en el ámbito de series y películas (ya que fue un año bastante vacío en ese apartado), y también me generó un poco de bajón el ver mi wrapped musical lleno de canciones que […]

https://fsolt.es/2026/01/los-mejores-libros-que-he-leido-en-2025/

I finally started to read Mark Z. Danielewski’s monumental novel Tom’s Crossing last night, and I already know I’m committed for the long haul. I’ve had the book on my shelves for a couple of months now but put off starting it until I had the (head)space to give it the attention it deserves.

I’m a fan of Danielewski’s work anyway, but this seems like something that reaches beyond even the best of his earlier writing. So many passages where I’m marvelling at the way he expresses both the mundane and the ineffable with such clarity and apparent ease.

There’s no comparable feeling, I think, to becoming truly lost in a grand work of the imagination.

#MarkZDanielewski #TomsCrossing #GreatAmericanNovel

Boris Godunow von Mussorgsky nebenbei auf Russisch laufen lassen und dabei ein ›technisch‹ haarsträubendes Kapitel von #MarkZDanielewski|s »Tom’s Crossing« lesen.

⚠️ Struktur-Spoiler⚠️

Zu Beginn des Finales—letzten 312 von 1229 Seiten—gibts schon den Epilog! Dabei wendet Danielewski einen Kniff an, der mich bereits bei #AlanMoore|s »Jerusalem« schwer beeindruckt hat; vorzügliche Anknüpfung an antike Phantastik, wenn Sprache Gemälde einer Ausstellung vor den Augen der Lesys erscheinen lässt.

#TomsCrossing is absolutely on another level for books. Every single word in this #novel is just breathtakingly beautiful.

I took the last couple of days off from reading due to life stress and I was immediately sucked back in as soon as I picked it back up today.

At 62 pages, that last chapter was every bit as intense as it was long!

This #book is just something else and I can’t get enough of it!

#NowReading #CurrentlyReading #Western #MarkZDanielewski

I’m only 149 pages into this 1232 page #novel and I can already tell you this will be the greatest #book I read in my life.

#TomsCrossing #MarkZDanielewski #Western #NowReading #CurrentlyReading

The timing couldn’t have been much more perfect with the arrival of this chonky novel.

With less than a hundred pages left to read of #SenLinYu’s #Alchemised, I present to you my next adventure:

#MarkZDanielewski’s #TomsCrossing!

I’m so excited to read this! It’s being referred to as the next #MobyDick!