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“some of us had been threatening our friend Colby” is an all-timer

oh i get it, time is out of joint

read through over 400 pages of short stories and not a single stinker so far

these soviets are hilarious. pissed off at the cold warriors who shielded the world from great bits about forming commissions and general councils

"i'm extremely political in a way that does no good to anybody."

would be funny if Barthelme’s “a picture history of the war” had the unearned cultural purchase that 1984 does. imagine a world where Jordan Peterson types are telling their followers to check out books like The Dead Father

Robert Kennedy Saved From Drowning is an all-timer for me. insane beauty to it

imagine a debut as strong as Come Back, Dr. Caligari. just doesn’t happen anymore

not related but not not à propos: remember when those unedited Carver short stories were released beside the Lish edits? did anyone other than stephen king actually think that those editions did anything other than conclusively prove that Lish is a genius (and not, say, that he hacked and chopped Carver’s “genius”)? anyway enjoying the Lish

we should be so lucky as to receive new Gordon Lish in the year 2021

ah yes the infamous grey gardens-ass passage. Karl Ove is really working overtime to get the reader to imagine the stench

Karl Ove is right, the point isn’t reading Adorno, it’s becoming someone who is the kind of person who would read Adorno

endlessly fascinated by Karl Ove's masculinity. He can't let on that he knows the word "outfit" but also he cries every 50 pages. Alpha

love the Britishisms in Bartlett’s translation. the thought of Karl Ove saying “should i have a wank?” is stupefying