why do people hate john hawkes so much?

he kicked my dog

>henri and chantal will be bored to death long before the crash

I keked

>>8297947
I don't get it

>>8297944
>john hawkes status
>btfo
>monologue status
>btfo
>writing books status
>btfo
How can literature recover from this

>>8297958
because you're not an oldfag (newfag)

Sounds like the premise of a maniac. What was his problem?

>>8297961
did he mean the paki prank call about kicking a dog from like the year 2000? if he did that wasn't funny

>>8297977
Oh god was that shit not funny

>>8297944
Because everything he wrote triggers semiliterate middlebrow readers who wouldn't know what literature was if you bashed them over the head with a copy of The Recognitions.

has anyone read this brosef?

haven't read 'travesty' but short answer is because he hard

His short stories are good (except Charivari, holy fuck that was a slog), the novels are hit & miss

>>8299138
this book isn't hard at all dawg

>>8299108
I have. I can see someone being miffed about the price being too high given how short it is if they got a new copy, but it's a great novella if you're looking for something about total depravity.

>>8297944
I know that guy. He's a massive twat. He plays the contrarian while still being PC enough for the GR crowd. Ignore him.

>>8299200
Really? I've always told people to start with The Lime Twig but maybe Travesty would be better, then

>>8299141
Ya

>>8300775
Nah. Travesty is easier and shorter, but The Lime Twig is more characteristic of his style overall. Travesty can be read as a standalone, but it works better as the capstone piece to his "sex trilogy" (the first two are The Blood Orange+Death Sleep and the Traveler).

>>8300775
The Blood Oranges is probably the best start IMO