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Writing in LARB, The Millions, KGB, The Metropolitan Review, Socrates on the Beach, Compact, etc..
Also: Substack.
- If you’re wondering what to think about Alice Munro and her daughter’s revelation, and have thoughts about it, or want to sort out what you’ve read already, and are looking for some clarity, this piece by @blgtylr is the one to read…link below
- The first 15 pages of Balzac's The Girl with the Golden Eyes is a material dissection and tour de force of social and class analysis of early 19th Paris...in which he also introduces the flaneur--later made famous by Baudelaire
- Gotta give it to Annie Ernaux (49) and her Russian lover (36)--lord I’m praying for the same lasting power--for getting a lot done in one tryst Also: no matter how often they fuck, throughout each and every encounter over the course of their relationship--he keeps his socks on.
- Out now in the @the_met_review (a big thanks to everyone there!). I analyze several of Ryan Ruby’s latest essays on criticism, and examine AV Marraccini’s book We The Parasites…and more...below is list of works mentioned...












