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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
When Foucault imagined life as a work of art he imagined an art object. Arendt, in contrast, imagined life as a narrative, authored by the social collectivity rather than by the lone individual.
Micki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
objects are reservoirs of specific personal experience, filled with the hours of some person’s life.
Teju Cole • Known and Strange Things
Zoë Hopkins • The Invisible Presence of Blackness in American Art
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African was published in 1789
Alan Jacobs • The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
In Savannah, she recommended that members of the writing workshop eat at the Grey Market, where she worked part-time. It is a New York bodega-inspired offshoot of the Grey, Mashama Bailey’s fine-dining Savannah restaurant. Bailey, a Black woman who moved between Georgia and New York throughout her childhood, learned to cook first from the women in
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