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“I also knew every single Bob Dylan song by heart…” impossible. There’s simply too many songs. Am I to believe some Scandinavian guy loves Empire Burlesque

Glacially paced psych thriller 🫡🫡

Article limbo - academic purgatory

The dining room. That’s the last place you’d want a domestic disruption

Leaf Storm was weak for Marquez, No One Writes to the Colonel is 🔥🔥

No one loved hotels like Roth

Car accident <<< “auto smash”

Americans: just like us, save for a deeper bitterness, apparently

For the few sweeping generalizations he’s made it doesn’t actually seem like Auden is remotely familiar with any Soviet literature

Auden is one of those readers / critics obsessed with a kind of poetic “truth” that, to the nonbelievers, is going to seem arbitrary and impossible, but goddamn if he doesn’t write a nice sentence

Would’ve loved to hear Auden’s take on Knausgaard

Auden sounding vaguely Deleuzian at times … even a nod towards his own iteration of “faciality”

Can’t believe I’ve been tricked into reading something about the Charlie hebdo shooting

Fun anecdote re: William Hurt and his ambitions to be a better person

Hard not to be excited about the possibilities of literature when reading James Wood

Franzen is cooking

I predict a Franzen revival

Re-read time. Kicks ass

(Knausgaard pointing at a boat disappearing into the fog): that’s what death is

least antisemitic midcentury French European

Forgot that I meant to read the seasons quartet in the corresponding seasons. Anyway this one’s off to a hot start my man loves owls and birds of prey

This is so crazy bitter lol

Céline’s prose always hits like a slap in the face

Reading this to satisfy my New England sensibilities

Not an update on the novel but I was just thinking about how good Joyce Carol Oates is at using twitter. Just a masterclass in posting

Sometimes god punishes the cities of the plain. You just have to be an adult and deal with it

Book 1 finished, Joyce has got The Juice on this one

Been meaning to read this for so long. No time like the present

“… and I’m amazed that we’re not running amok in the streets, and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all this.”

hmmm