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George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year (Published 2013)
Joel Lovellnytimes.com
I Am Going to Miss Pitchfork, but That’s Only Half the Problem
https://www.nytimes.com/by/ezra-kleinnytimes.com
To be honest, my appetite for this sort of online blowup diminishes hourly. Though I’m as prone to schadenfreude as any other media professional trying to hold onto relevance in an increasingly winner-take-all economy, there’s something about watching extremely online people have noisy meltdowns that makes me feel like I’m inhaling my own body odor... See more
Who Killed Creative Writing?
To have the dignity of one’s reality: this, I realized, was why I worked so hard to find language to tell my story. I wanted to show how the emphasis on the psychological nature of chronic illness in a culture that pathologizes the failure to “overcome” robbed people of grace, while instructing them to suffer their illness with grace.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
Previously these communities were imposed on us, along with their mental weather. Now we chose them—or believed that we did. A person might join a site to look at pictures of her nephew and five years later believe in a flat earth.
Patricia Lockwood • No One Is Talking About This: A Novel
Houellebecq wore his biography, professional identity, marital status, and psychiatric condition – everything modern society considers intrinsic and defining of the individual – as an amusing costume to be played with and discarded. He frees himself through his work from the straitjacket of ‘identity politics’ which placates its prisoners, like a K... See more
Alexander • Poseur
“At the end of my reply I signed off using my initials AWS, a moniker I often use rather than my given name Austin. A few days later I received a confused reply from my collaborator to be. Whether in sincerity or jest they addressed me as Amazon Web Service, and requested clarity on who they were speaking to. I appreciated the interaction, because ... See more