Spent much of yesterday with Dan Beachy-Quick's Spell, which I discover now while linking to it was reviewed by Josh Corey in GutCult last year. Also, a good interview here about the process of writing the book. It's a layered textual polyphonic thing that swept me up in its obsessive fascination with its reading of its whale. That's what I appreciate about it most, why I carry it around with me on errands, while washing dishes, while watching from my window my neighbor plant vegetables in the rain. The book is relentless, an act of possession. It won't let go.
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