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I got the essay book “The Crack Up” by F. Scott Fitzgerald this week, but didn’t realize until yesterday that there are only 8 essays and it’s 75% logs that were too weird or random to make it into his published work.
Inspired by how Festing Jones organized Samuel Butler’s notebook, he did the same thing by organizing how own fragments under alphabe
... See moreThe Birth of a Nation,
Nathan Hill • Wellness: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)
Early Work — Andrew Martin, author of Early Work and Cool for America
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He writes, he says, for four basic reasons. First, sheer egoism. The desire to seem clever and to get talked about. Second, aesthetic enthusiasm. The pleasure he gets from playing with sentences and words. But Orwell is nothing if not honest. And he has to admit that there are higher motives as well. Third, then, is the “historic impulse,” the desi
... See moreDavid Brooks • The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
A quixotic intellectual troubadour, he has prosecuted a series of discrete visions united only by a potent sense of curiosity and a provocative optimism.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
Alexander • Poseur
Then he and Scribner discussed a limited edition of William Butler Yeats’s works.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
The layers of asserting and then hedging those assertions to assert slightly more emphatically and imaginatively that would constitute Wallace’s style are beginning to form.