THE ANNALS OF HAROLD

F**K LOSING 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 . DO U KNOW WHAT U WANT? — . . . there’s a feeling that often comes over a young man: I am here for something GREAT; in the midst of all the animate debris we call humanity, I, unlike everyone else, am here for a SPECIAL purpose . . . . The young man is filled with ENTHUSIASM, in its most ancient significance: filled by God . Only thing left to do: prove to the world how special U are. But how...

LEONIDAS DA SILVAAA 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

BRASIL OLE OLE OLE 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

SEBALD/DEATH OF A SALESMAN 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

WTF IS GOOD PROSE ? 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

WG SEBALD, ETC. . . 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

UNDERGROUND BRUHHH 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

MY DEBUT WUZ A FLOP 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

CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES . . . 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

BENLERNING 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 GREAT GATSBY 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 BEGINNINGS ANTONIO MORESCO 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

7 DEADLY SINS : RANKED ! 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

CHRIST IS BOOOOOORING ! 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 FOREST BY JACK HOUGHTELING 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

DISNEY WHIRLD 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

29 FAV NOVELS 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

HILDA HILST 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

— // IN UR SWEET POUTS // — IN THE SULFURIC INFERNO : Times Square subway station, stultified in the Friday night bustle, bout to hop on the downtown 6 ; a darting bundle of sweaty citizenry barrels thru Gaby : a toppleworthy thud. We’d been quibbling; she’d been annoying; a pin in my dreamballoon : — I wanted to get an office with Ethan so we could f**k around with our incipiently legendary colla...

1. SAT ON A WALL. . . HUMPTY DUMPTY IS A MYTH IN THE GUISE OF A NURSERY RHYME. The humptian hero rises, — generationally, glittering, — from the mass of the masculine lodazal; takes his seat on the WALL; we kowtow in admiration, horror, envy as our dumptian king flits in swift abligurition upon the summit. . . The reason Humpty is Him : NOBODY else could get up on the damn WALL! LAST WEEK , I WALK...

. . . — THE MAN — . . . “AN INTENSE DREAM, A VIVID RAY” I ON THE MORNING OF AUGUST 15, 1909 , Euclides da Cunha, — the most famous writer in Brasil, — was murdered by his wife’s lover. The TOLD story : Euclides uncovered the betrayal; pulled up furious, strapped , — snapped; shot poor, young, apollonian Dilermando de Assis three times : wimpy Euclides, the intellectual with the soldierless jib-cut...

(1) I’M NOBODY! — WHO ARE U ? MY FRIEND, SLIMY B, READ WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1847) . Unimpressed, he told me : “she writes like a teenage girl with a thesaurus. . .” On a frigid, blistering walk, I tried to defend Emily’s honor : arguing lexically complex teenage ardors are rollicking delights, — but Slimy B put the final nail in the coffin of the Brontë Sister Industrial Complex : “MAN, THESE CLASSI...

1: — THINGS NEVER ATTEMPTED . . . THE ONLY DECORATION in my room is a print of Pieter Brueghel’s Tower of Babel (1563) scotch-taped to the wall. Every morning, I stare at the melted collapsing decadent cake of Brueghel’s tower : worker-ants crawling over it in impeccable toil : — King Nimrod in the bottom left corner, cronies bowing down, imperially executing his goddefying VISION. . . The Babel m...

A LINE WILL TAKE US HOURS MAYBE THE FIRST THING people wanna know about your novel : “How long did it take?” I always wonder : is this real curiosity, or is the person calculating the requisite time block on their mental calendar for the novel they’ve always wanted to write. . . The answer, — which I give to every budding novelist, — : takes longer than U think it will. Writing a novel is like bob...