THE ANNALS OF HAROLD

BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES. . . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit haroldrogers.substack.com

Let’s start easy. Taking our clue from the most notoriously difficult novel of the 20th century, ULYSSES (1922) by James Joyce, with its eminently comprehensible opening paragraph: Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air. He hel...

MILKMAN BY ANNA BURNS. . . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit haroldrogers.substack.com

WHAT R U SUPPOSED TO WRITE LITERATURE ABT? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit haroldrogers.substack.com

NO CAP: THIS STORY GOT ME IN TROUBLE. . . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit haroldrogers.substack.com

*SHAKES FIST AT SKY* HOOPLA!!!!!!! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit haroldrogers.substack.com

EARLY VERSION OF A STORY PUBLISHED IN THE METROPOLITAN REVIEW. . . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit haroldrogers.substack.com

ON CAROL BENSIMON'S DIORAMA AND CARLOS EDUARDO PEREIRA'S AGORA AGORA This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit haroldrogers.substack.com

1. SILVANA Rio is the most beautiful city in the world (just edging out New York and Steubenville, Ohio—no I’m not biased), but when you’re expecting scorching inexorable summer sunshine and instead getting a gray block of clouds interrupted occasionally by chilly drizzles, it can make you wanna drink. The bar (that I described in my last post) on Santa Clara is called Casa Suzanna. The lady who s...

RANDOM TRANSLATION. . . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit haroldrogers.substack.com

I landed in Rio de Janeiro on Friday morning. The airport is located on the Ilha do Governador—the Governor’s Island. My mom was born on the Ilha and her ancestors have been dust-to-dusting there for several generations. Here’s a story my grandma just told me: her grandpa was a surly racist German married to a woman who was the granddaughter of slaves. He owned an ant poison factory on the Island....

ON TRISTRAM SHANDY BY LAURENCE STERNE This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit haroldrogers.substack.com

THE TITLE OF THIS ONE KINDA SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. . . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit haroldrogers.substack.com

Putting out a list of your year’s favorite books, I think, is hack and anti-literature; however, I saw Bruna’s Carta para navegantes stack do an awards thing, and I liked reading it, so I have thereby stolen her idea, and I am doing my own version of those awards here: JOÃO GUIMARÃES ROSA AWARD ( this is named after my favorite writer, the greatest brasilian writer, author of the greatest novel in...

I TALK STRANGELY, AT LEAST ACCORDING TO GABY. . . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit haroldrogers.substack.com

ON GOGOL'S DEAD SOULS This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit haroldrogers.substack.com

EARLY VERSION OF HUMPTY, BACK WHEN IT WAS CALLED STEUBENVILLE. . . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit haroldrogers.substack.com

A CLASSIC STB DIARY FEATURING PAUL This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit haroldrogers.substack.com

ON MACHADO DE ASSIS YOUR FACE TOMORROW AND SOME LURID STEUBENVILLE GOSSIP This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit haroldrogers.substack.com

HAROLD IS AN A*****E BRO, F**K HIM. . . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit haroldrogers.substack.com