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some of the greatest opening lines in literature
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Shreds front to back but this in particular is one of my favorite metaphors ever written:
Excellent, eerie, ice-cold, sinister gangster story, engrossing experimentalism, especially good for the ambient dread you just can't tear yourself away from the entire time you read it, and wants to be read in as close to one sitting as possible
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had a great time talking with @gregorymconway about Laxness, Norwegian literature, my own work, and art in general also mentioned: Vesaas, Fosse, Faulkner, DFW, Edy Poppy, solitude, family, and horticulture (link below)
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Murnane on Kerouac’s On the Road: “The book was like a blow to the head that wipes out all memory of the recent past. For six months after I first read it I could hardly remember the person I had been beforehand. For six months I believed I had all the space I needed. […]
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Excellent opening statement from the new pope
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“He knew what was happening, even as he dwindled just so before going. He was too smart to not know.” Sam McKinniss remembers Gary Indiana. buff.ly/YIoIYRm
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Hard to forget Knausgaard on Fosse as teacher: newyorker.com/books/page-tur…
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Very excited about this—pay what you wish! lincolncenter.org/series/lin…
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Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes.
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“Cormac McCarthy is not interested in the psychology of character. He probably never has been. He’s interested in the horror of every living creature’s situation.”—Joy Williams harpers.org/archive/2023/01/…
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NEW: A story about the Nord Stream mystery. Much attn has been paid (and rightly so) to a sailing yacht, the Andromeda. German investigators think it was involved in the sabotage. But there's a 2nd vessel you should know about — the Minerva Julie... 🧵/1 businessinsider.com/nord-str…
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Yes. @DeepVellum has sent us a contract, I have sent notes to our agent who will discuss w DV, I think the plan is to publish in 2024 in the @Dalkey_Archive imprint
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When I look at a beautiful painting I have tears in my eyes, but not when I look at my children. That does not mean I do not love them, because I do, with all my heart, it simply means that the meaning they produce is not sufficient to fulfill a whole life. Not mine, at any rate.
a friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson: hey man sorry I’ve been so busy lately, working on anything new? Emerson: funny you should ask
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