@meljoann Thank you for asking! That's why I'm posting stuff here about things I like on the off chance I find someone else who might chat about it with me.

So, the #AnnQuinProject is a slow reread (for me) of all of Quin's published work. What I'm doing is writing notes and really trying to go deeper into the text to get a better idea of who Ann Quin the writer is and also understand better her techniques and how those developed over the 4 and half novels.

Just doing a little research for my #AnnQuinProject and found this review in BOMB

https://bombmagazine.org/articles/ann-quins-berg/

also, I'm setting up a list on #BookWyrm for all of you Ann Quin fans

https://bookwyrm.social/list/845/s/re-quin-rereading-project

I don’t know how many novels Ann Quin wrote in her lifetime: two early efforts were discarded after rejection by publishers and two more (possibly mature works) were thrown away (not by Quin) by accident (?) during one of Quin’s hospitalizations. Four novels were published: Berg (1964), Three (1966), Passages (1969), and Tripticks (1972). For this project, I’ll start with her shorter works collected in The Unmapped Country.

#AnnQuinProject

Last summer, I decided to do a close read of all of Ann Quin’s novels and shorter works (all available from #AndOtherStories). The idea was that I read science, history, theology, social criticism, etc. and make notes and engage with the ideas encountered in such books through writing. Why not do the same for a writer of experimental fiction? What could I learn from a slow close reading that I missed when I read through Quin’s body of work (more or less) quickly? #AnnQuinProject