Reuben Mackey
@ReubenMackey_
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PhD Student in Literary Studies at @MonashUni. AusLit, metafiction, and anything else difficult and annoying.
Joined April 2020
My article on Gerald Murnane’s A Million Windows is finally live at TEXT Journal (and open access!). It’s an assortment of thoughts on how and why certain obsessive critics have responded to Murnane + my attempt to write from within the House of Fiction.
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@EleventhVolume @ddillingworth @EmmettStinson @emilyhallnyc @gariellelutz @damiankelleher @IneluctableQuak @IainSmithNZ I’ve been waiting for this forever! Was just saying to someone yesterday that I was worried it might not get a second issue because it had been so long.
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@audsnowmat He’s slowed down so much since Moving Kings too! I remember him saying in 2023 that he’s working on a long novel centred on Jeffrey Epstein conspiracies, which I need right now
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RT @thebooksdesk: Your periodic reminder that what I'd argue was the most aesthetically exciting OZ novel of 2024 wasn't published by a mul…
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RT @PrizeRofc: Congratulations to @thisissplice for being long listed for the 2025 Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses https:…
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@Greg_Gerke @MarkdeSilva1 @VinceCzyz You just beat me to it. Two of the great recent books. Both deserving of a post PhD reread
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@Greg_Gerke @MarkdeSilva1 @VinceCzyz I’m still all in on Book of Numbers, but the rhythms of Underworld are very important to me
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@EleventhVolume The Penguin boxset I bought had this exact problem, except went down Swann’s Way and never returned…
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@EleventhVolume It’s either Inland or Velvet Waters. Landscape with Landscape is also really nice.
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@damiankelleher @EleventhVolume I quite like his short stories and Illywhacker, but the other stuff doesn't do heaps for me
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@EmmettStinson The Architect is bad: just a run-of-the-mill doppelgänger narrative that is quite tendentious. Warra Warra is interesting but was written to make money�� And the first 3/4s of N. are phenomenal and close to the best Aus writing this century, but the last 1/4 completely ruins it.
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@EmmettStinson One of the best books I’ve read over the past few years! Appropriately read to avoid writing…
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@EmmettStinson It’s the most fucked chapter in the thesis too. A bizarre parody of epistolary narratives: a mad critic who writes a letter to the novel and who sews it into the book to make an extra chapter + a scholarly editor who tries to give it accuracy and order with footnotes and an intro
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