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QUALITY LIT GAME PODCAST EPISODE 8: THE TRAGEDY OF 'HAMNET'
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EP.8: THE TRAGEDY OF HAMNET | Quality Lit Game
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Election day afternoon listening . . .
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MAILER 2 MAMDANI | Quality Lit Game
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London Review of Books
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âThe two memoirs together with âPanâ â which is autobiographical, though there are some deviations from his life â form a trilogy about the derangements of youth.â
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on the relationship between Michael Cluneâs debut novel and his memoirs of addiction.
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Christian Lorentzen · Itâs for dorks: Michael Cluneâs âPanâ
When Michael Cluneâs character in Pan alights on Proust in the course of his daily writing practice, he learns a mode...
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IN DEFENSE OF DIANE KEATON: QUALITY LIT GAME PODCAST EPISODE 3
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London Review of Books
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âLanierâs songs moved many of his contemporaries. Herrick called him ârare Laniereâ while John Donne said he âgave a life and harmony to all that he setâ.â Alice Spawls on the rediscovery of a portrait of one of the most intriguing figures of the 17th century.
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Alice Spawls · On Nicholas Lanier
The Nicholas Lanier portrait that I came across so unexpectedly at Frieze Masters doesnât have the prestige of the Van...
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A couple of new pieces I wrote on a book and a word.
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PANIC IN THE GIFTSHOP
On Michael Clune's 'Pan' and against the verb 'to gift'
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about 2 months ago
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Quality Lit Game Podcast Episode 2
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A noun that becomes a verb is like a cat that's gone to the dogs. Against 'to gift'.
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Today Is My Birthday
âWhen I noticed an English writer using the transitive âgiftâ in a prestigious paper, I took the usage up with one of its editors, a Scotswoman whose fastidiousness is notorious.â
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2 months ago
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Philip Gourevitch
2 months ago
William Gaddis heads will recognize that Trump is engaged here in a frolic of his own
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Recorded a podcast with some friends about the PTA picture.
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QUALITY LIT GAME PODCAST
Episode 1: 'One Battle after Another'
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An old column about my gambling addiction from which I've finally recovered after years of intensive therapy.
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MY BOOK PRIZE BETTING ADDICTION
In anticipation of tomorrow's Nobel Prize in Literature
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3 months ago
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Thomaz Amancio
3 months ago
Lorentzen on the new Pynchon is pretty good:
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If the Gumshoe Fits
The Thomas Pynchon experience â Christian Lorentzen
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3 months ago
âAlong with Don DeLillo, he survives as one of the granddaddies of the paranoid systems novel, and we are unlikely to read many or any more new novels from the pair.â In
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âŹâŹ, Christian Lorentzen reviews Thomas Pynchonâs new novel âShadow Ticketâ
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If the Gumshoe Fits
The Thomas Pynchon experience â Christian Lorentzen
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Wrote on the Anderson picture.
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STONED BUSTER KEATON, DOMESTICATED PYNCHON, AND THE PERMANENT HOLLYWOOD (NON-)REVOLUTION
On Paul Thomas Andersonâs âOne Battle after Anotherâ
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3 months ago
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Went to the Oasis show, wrote a sentence about it.
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âLIAM, NONE OF THESE AMERICAN CUNTS KNOW WHO YOU ARE!â
Reflections on seeing Oasis Live â25 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey
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4 months ago
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Robert Sullivan
5 months ago
On the end of Oranginas and the perpetuation of auras! Spoiler alert: yes can be smarter than no!
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Anna Kornbluh
5 months ago
we will miss glossy magazines when theyâre all gone
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Special offer within.
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THE GLOSSY AGE
On a history of Conde Nast
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5 months ago
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Wrote a book review.
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A Juicy Chronicle of the Fat Decades at Condé Nast
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5 months ago
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Wrote about the GOAT debate.
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WHO IS THE GOAT OF AMERICAN FICTION?
With apologies to the two other members of my NBA/literature group chat, to the players selected last week in the NBA draft, to Stephen A. Smith, and to my dearly departed high school English teachers
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6 months ago
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Andrew Marzoni
6 months ago
Once more for the weekend crowd.
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The Paris Review
6 months ago
âI have some new poems, a rash, and a lover. Iâll send them (the poems that is) to you in a couple of days.â Letters from Jack Spicer.
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I reviewed 'Megalopolis'.
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ELEGY FOR A NUCLEAR PROGRAM WITHOUT A BOMB
& a baptism of fire in New York City
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6 months ago
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Every book review should also have this---the author coming in and saying 'This reviewer knows nothing of my work' after every pan or paean.
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6 months ago
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Zoe Guttenplan
6 months ago
I wrote about the Microsoft Word default font you didn't know you were using
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Wrote on some letters from David Foster Wallace to Sven Birkerts that are up for sale.
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âI AM NOT A PARTICULARLY SMART OR IMAGINATIVE MAN, BUT . . . â
Letters from David Foster Wallace go up for sale
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6 months ago
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Surf's up.
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BRIAN WILSON & THE QUESTION OF GENIUS
At the conjuncture of rockism & poptimism
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6 months ago
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Mufuletta James
7 months ago
Christian Lorentzen with a drive by shooting on the stakes of New York City's mayoral race.
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London Review of Books
7 months ago
âFear-mongering is particularly disgusting when crime has been declining for three decades and much of Manhattan is now indistinguishable from Disneyland.â Christian Lorentzen on Andrew Cuomoâs bid to be New York Mayor, online early:
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Christian Lorentzen · Mayor of New York
Crossroads, watershed, turning or tipping point, whatever clichĂ© falls just this side of revolution: thatâs the way...
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richard scott larson
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"Fear-mongering about crime and filthy crackheads is particularly disgusting when crime has been declining for three decades and much of Manhattan is now indistinguishable from Disneyland."
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Christian Lorentzen · Mayor of New York
Crossroads, watershed, turning or tipping point, whatever clichĂ© falls just this side of revolution: thatâs the way...
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Reading tomorrow in London.
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LONDON READING
See you in Walthamstow tomorrow night
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7 months ago
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Wrote on Robson.
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FREELANCE EMOTIONAL DETECTIVES & PRISONERS OF HISTORY
On Leo Robsonâs âThe Boysâ, other boys, and some girls (or men and women)
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7 months ago
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I reviewed the new Wes Anderson picture.
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7 months ago
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When Terry Southern adapted John Barth.
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PLAYING CHICKEN
When Terry Southern adapted John Barth
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7 months ago
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Ian Curtin
7 months ago
"Now we have such lists in their ultimate form: a list written by nobody for readers who donât care consisting mostly of books that do not and will never exist, plus Ian McEwanâs Atonement."
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Went off about book recs again.
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BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS ACHIEVE THEIR ULTIMATE FORM
By the algorithm for the algorithm
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The Paris Review
7 months ago
âShe cut three slashes into a piece of chorizo, started wedging Valiums into it, and Âworried in a vague way that something unusual would be required of her.â This week, weâve unlocked âProtectorsâ by Amie Barrodale from the archive.
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Protectors by Amie Barrodale
She cut three slashes into a piece of chorizo, started wedging Valiums into it, and worried in a vague way that something unusual would be required of her. She thought she remembered David sayingâŠ
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J.T. Price
8 months ago
Spycraft, adultry-craft, office politics-craft, inner American-craft, flat-to-farm-craft
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Wrote on Gene Tierney and the first Cold War spy thriller.
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THE FACE OF DEFECTION
Gene Tierney and the first Cold War spy thriller, âThe Iron Curtainâ
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8 months ago
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Notes on 'Pavements'.
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ASPHALT SUMMERS
On âPavementsâ, âThe Hard Quartetâ, âReality Bitesâ, et al.
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8 months ago
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Wrote on 'Norman Mailer vs. Fun City'.
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A SNOWBALL IN HELL
On 'Norman Mailer vs. Fun City'
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8 months ago
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