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This is so intimate I would think about him every day for the rest of my life
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Baseball is the only sport with enough downtime to support the melancholic soul. As a kid, I would block the sun with my glove and imagine it as a meteor coming down. In my final moments, would I run to my father in the dugout? Or my mother in the stands?
I let a lot of runs in
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Ten thousand dissertations all called “the American novel since 1945” reduced to a single sentence
When I’m in the suburbs for too long I start to think about dying
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Before she was the Barefoot Contessa, Ina Garten wrote nuclear policy for two different presidential administrations (ford/carter) and just once I want an interviewer to abruptly pivot and ask questions about like, the long term environmental impacts of uranium mining
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You have to fuck up on a truly historic level to get the NYPD to say “even we think these were meaningless arrests.” They love meaningless arrests!
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That new JK Rowling novel about people getting mad at her online is 200 pages longer than Infinite Jest
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A couple days after my dad committed suicide, I drank five beers alone in a hotel room and then walked across the hot parking lot to the Bass Pro Shop, where I wandered through their artificial forest, crying. So far I have been nice enough not to write a short story about this
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Just learned that Renato Bialetti, the Italian businessman whose company manufactures the Moka Express, had his ashes interred in a giant one when he died
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Sorry everyone but if you see me face to face at any point in the next 6 months there is a 100% chance I’m talking about this
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Joan Didion once wrote a line like “we are on this vacation in lieu of getting a divorce” and everyone in her life asked her “does John know?” when in reality, John had read, edited, re-read, and then driven Joan to the post office to submit the essay.
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“How are you supposed to meet people without dating apps?” It may sound crazy, but I met my wife the old fashioned way—by having the unstable magnetism of a cult leader. In fact, that’s how I met everyone on the compound
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I would read a sad plotless novel about her in a heartbeat
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Charges dropped against Infinite Jest no take backs
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Coat pockets need to be large enough to hold a trade paperback, no exceptions
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McCarthy: THERE IS AN INHERENT VIOLENCE TO AMERICA. ITS ENTIRE EXISTENCE IS BUILT ON VIOLENCE. ITS BORDERS ARE MAINTAINED THROUGH VIOLENCE. THROUGH VIOLENCE WE ACHIEVE WEALTH AND PROSPERITY
Our best and brightest: this sounds like toxic masculinity
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I wasn’t on Twitter when I lived in California, but I just rediscovered my pics of where Pynchon lived when he wrote Gravity’s Rainbow, which is very funny to think about
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(Playground bully voice) Nice luminous debut, did an exciting new voice write it?
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“THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL: Sponsored by Bank of America” feels like a throwaway joke that David Foster Wallace would have made in the book that appears on this list
The 136 books on our great-American-novels list represent the best of what books can do: challenge us, delight us, pull us in and then release us, a little smarter and a little more alive than we were before. See the full list.
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No more astrology or meyers-briggs, which of the alternate titles for Lispector’s Hour of the Star are you?
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I know it is literally my job to promote her books, but Ernaux’s “Simple Passion” is the best book about love as the thing that both creates and destroys the world every single day, the thing that makes everything make sense, and makes you go completely irreparably
insane
What’s the single best novel ever written about love?
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Looking at myself in the mirror and saying “you do not have an MFA” as a positive affirmation
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What's the most haunting line you've ever read in a piece of literature? Something that stays with you like a shadow.
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Didn’t remember it last week, but here’s William H Gass on New Yorker poetry
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The most brilliant editors I know are all being overworked, underpaid, and editing an exponential number of titles per year—while reading submissions on nights and weekends, off the clock. And the companies don’t care because there’s always new blood
Unpopular opinion: The quality of editing in books by major publishers is deteriorating at a rapid speed.
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Wish I could read further but unfortunately Duke University Press has individually wrapped this tweet in plastic
just came up with an idea called ‘cruel optimism.’ what do you think?
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I am convinced that NYRB is just making up some of these Russians
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I can think of an enormous amount of writing that sort of intellectualizes motherhood (Maggie Nelson, Ernaux, Doireann Ni Ghriofa, Heti, Zambreno) but I can’t think of much that does the same for being a dad
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Oh god oh no they’ve been writing notes app poetry!!!
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I guess it’s really true what people say: Right Back To It by Waxahatchee (feat. MJ Lenderman)
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Just remember that we can push Biden to the left once he’s in office
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According to the PRH website, Franz Kafka will be doing a couple readings in California in February
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It’s really very simple—novels should either be 700+ pages long and meditating on every single goddamn thing under the sun OR they should be 125 pages long and contain nothing but a mood
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There’s a real pathos starting to emerge from this character. He’s got everything he could ever want from his full time jod—money, beautiful apartment, Hyatt hotel rooms—but it’s lonely at the top. Sort of a Pacino in Godfather 2 vibe
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Which is to say that I liked the essay in The Cut, but just because someone’s work is very personal does not mean I feel the need to go stumbling around in the dark, backstage, looking for more
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The Nobel prize is fun to talk about and speculate on, and I feel like the Booker has been losing steam in recent years, so the literary prize I put the most stock in is the Akutagawa prize, which is an absolute murderer’s row of forward-thinking fiction
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Asking ChatGPT to write me an essay called “the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction”
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Lucy Dacus publicly giving Annie Ernaux three out of five stars on Goodreads………….walking for hours in the dark feeling all hell……don’t text
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NONE of you are allowed to apply for this, I do not want to be in the grocery store reading “towards a unified theory of milk alternatives” or “the phenomenology of granola” in microscopic type
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A project spanning 60-something years, Elias Canetti’s The Book Against Death has been excerpted from a 2000 page bundle of notes and sketches left behind by the author when he finally gave in to the book’s subject.
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When I say that this book is “a fleshy smelly fucking nightmare” I mean it as a genuinely sincere compliment
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Bolaño originally wanted 2666 to published as five books, and I’m trying to imagine how it would feel to go to the bookstore, like “oh boy, the fourth book in the series! I hope we find out more about the mysterious German author!” and then surprise, it’s a bottomless abyss
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Always nice to see my grandfather, but even nicer to see his old hardcover Morrisons
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Saw two possums work together to knock over a trash can, and then go sprinting down a storm drain. It is so important to support your local punk scene
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It really fucked me up to learn that babies go through periods of rem sleep while they’re still in the womb. What do you dream about if you’ve never experienced anything?
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A genuine feeling of dread about the NYT declaring the 100 best books of the 21st century so far
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Lotta people have already pointed out the laundry room scene, so I’ll just add that these are great examples of the subtle normalizing an apartheid state. Ideology isn’t always pushed by military hype-montages
Here’s the PACBI site for further reading
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……………………that’s that him espresso,…
Just learned that Renato Bialetti, the Italian businessman whose company manufactures the Moka Express, had his ashes interred in a giant one when he died
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Tiktok makes me feel like a pigeon that’s gotten inside a subway station like, I know I’m not supposed to be here but I’m here now and I need to survive
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AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS
my 3rd novel
is now available for pre-order from the
@Dalkey_Archive
site
Pub date 02/27/24
Cover by Leonora Carrington
(who appears in the novel as a talking car)
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Had not been able to get the baby to settle all morning, and I finally said out loud to him “okay we’re breaking out the big guns, dad’s going to blow your mind” and it worked instantly. Completely hypnotized.
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The setup I’m using to like everyone’s tweets hating on JD Vance and the publishing industry
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An alternate version of Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl that goes “park that car, park that car, park that car, park that car, park that car, park that car, park that car, park that car, park that car” because I’m bad at parallel parking and have to keep retrying
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Kissinger's secret to longevity is that he was never on the receiving end of his own foreign policy
Henry Kissinger turns 100 years old tomorrow and his son reflects on the secrets of his longevity. Hint: It's not the diet heavy on bratwurst and Wiener schnitzel.
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“It is impossible to say if this is based on Elena Ferrante’s real life” and then immediately, in the same sentence, declare it the premier example of autofiction. Great stuff as usual from the paper of record
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Obviously it only works when the book is 1140 pages, but fitting an entire blurb (from Toni Morrison no less) on the spine is such an incredible move
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Sunny, beautiful, beachfront apartment occupied by weirdo recluse. I just love the image
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I can admit that I used to take a dumb contrarian stance about Rothko because I had only encountered his work in books and on screens. Seeing one in person—the size, the textures of paint and canvass—made me wonder if I had ever really seen anything
When you see a Rothko in person, you can let it radiate and hum, the way the colors are framed and how they sit next to each other allowing you to feel something you can’t describe. It’s impossible to do with AI even if you had a perfect prompt
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I have been placed in charge of 150 advance copies of Annie Ernaux's forthcoming book, THE USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY, and I have begun devising a series of Da-Vinci-Code-esque codes and puzzles that you must solve if you want to receive one
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What if I told you this worked
Trying to send a book to William T. Vollmann for a blurb. I don’t assume he has an email address, so I am just leaving copies of the book at gas stations all over the southwestern desert, and frequenting a subreddit for the Soviet astronomer, Klavdiya Aleksandrovna Barkhatova
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Designing a parody shirt that says “anti social media social media manager” and making enough money to buy Twitter and shut it down
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Septology is ruining my life I am booking a flight to Norway to track down Jon Fosse and then just kind of exasperatedly sputter at him
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This is just a repeat of the 2019 arguments about Scorsese! It’s boring!
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Remembered this cursed thing I found in a secondhand shop a few years ago
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Lucy Ives’ 2021 short story “Guy” starts out as a Wikipedia entry about the concept of “guys” and slowly introduces more and more “I” statements, until eventually there is a plot underway. Nobody on earth is doing it quite like her.
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The Odyssey is literally one of the oldest stories ever told
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When the Archipelago book uses a slightly different font for the title, you know you’re in for something special
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Mom was very excited to tell me all about this new band called Waxahatchee that she’s been very into recently, and I got to say “remember how much you hated the punk house I used to hang out at? Saw her there 12 years ago.” Teenage James vindicated. It’s called the long game.
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