-- I said, there are moments of exaltation. - William Gaddis
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This essay is very dear to my heart. Thank you Hobart and @moonandmouth for publishing it, and thank you Christian for letting me interview you. hobartpulp.com/web_features/…
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Something happened! Thanks so much @LAReviewofBooks and particularly editor @_ntj lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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New article! A lot happened this week, so I wrote about how Antonin Dvorak wrote his greatest works in Spillville, Iowa in the summer of 1893.
And about saying goodbye: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p…
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Julian Lucas on the visionary novelist and chronicler of gay life who has taken American letters to uncharted realms. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
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“It is an occupational hazard for me: I’m so slow. I spend most of my time alone, trying to try to work.” Read the full interview with the writer Leslie Marmon Silko: nyer.cm/6frisDJ
ALT A photograph of Leslie Marmon Silko, by Matt Martin Williams.
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What would happen if we could upload our consciousnesses to a computer? Jennifer Egan (@Egangoonsquad) and @karaswisher discuss on the latest episode of Sway. nyti.ms/3OihfJN
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Before the pandemic, I traveled to one of the largest Confederate cemeteries in the country & spent the day with the Sons of Confederate Veterans to understand how the Lost Cause lives on.
This excerpt from my new book is the cover story for @TheAtlantic. theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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"If you know the position a person takes on taxes, you can determine [his] whole philosophy." - David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
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“The apple tree, I surmise, has been trimmed just enough. I’ve done what I can to prevent harm.” @KerriArsenault on life in a pandemic spring. lithub.com/new-growth-life-i…
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On the April New Yorker Fiction Podcast, Deborah Treisman reads and discusses "Good People" by David Foster Wallace. newyorker.com/podcast/fictio… via @NewYorker
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"His lawyer looks bored," I said. Jim reached for his drink. "You always try to look bored," he said, "when your client is committing perjury." - Renata Adler
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"One Day" from pg. 346 of David Foster Wallace's #InfiniteJest
erasinginfinite.com/post/186…
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"By all means stay home if you want, but don’t bullshit yourself that you’re not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote." —David Foster Wallace
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"We should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time"
Philip Larkin 🇺🇸💔
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It's thirty years this week since I first arrived in America. In the current @NewYorker, I write about why I came, why I stayed, and why, now, I'm leaving.
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
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Probably the only other writer who has written about both addiction & empathy: my conversation with @lsjamison vice.com/en_us/article/zmgyw…
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When it feels like you're trying to write a reasonably smart science fiction novel from within an *incredibly stupid* science fiction novel
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"GENTLE PROMISES SKEPTICAL CUB SCOUT CONVENTION 'YOU'LL BE ABLE TO EAT RIGHT OFF' TERRITORIAL U.S. BY END OF TERM'S FIRST YEAR' - Inf. Jest
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Why Kicking Addiction Is Like Losing the Love of Your Life— and Why That's Good News, my latest nytimes.com/2016/06/26/opini… @nytimes