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‘He made every sentence electric’: Martin Amis remembered by Tina Brown, his old friend and devoted editor
theguardian.comI met Margot Edwards during 1948 in Matcham Skipper's Studio behind the Russell Street police station, and it was only a short time afterwards that I became her lover and a constant visitor to her in a loft in Ivanhoe. Margot was only eighteen years old and one of the most beautiful girls I had ever seen. S... See more
Alistair Knox
It appears that countless women born between the years of 1965 and 1978 are in love with John Cusack. I cannot fathom how he isn’t the number-one box-office star in America, because every straight girl I know would sell her soul to share a milkshake with that motherfucker. For upwardly mobile women in their
Chuck Klosterman • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
McInerney’s big job now is acting as a custodian for the statue of himself that celebrity has
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
The deracination of literature
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Gus Van Sant wanted to option Infinite Jest.
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
Curiously enough, his pain in the affair beforehand had consisted almost entirely in the sense that he must seem dishonourable, and sink in the opinion of the Garths: he had not occupied himself with the inconvenience and possible injury that his breach might occasion them, for this exercise of the imagination on other people’s needs is not common
... See moreGeorge Eliot • Middlemarch
Advertising (1923) still has its admirers. The former advertising planner Paul Feldwick has written an original and intelligent history of the theories of advertising, The Anatomy of Humbug (2015). It is one of a kind, and it lays out the