September 2010
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“The marketing people will say—so who is she. Who is the author of this book,...”
– Eileen Myles is probably not going to see the Secretariat movie. I wrote about her new book for the Poetry Foundation.
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phairities:
Don’t Have Time
(Higher Learning...
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“Novelists have two ways of talking about themselves. One in which they do a very...”
– Martin Amis, interviewed for the Paris Review by Francesca Riviere in 1998 (via RC)
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“This book does not seem to be growing very large although I have got to Chapter...”
– Barbara Comyns, Our Spoons Came From Woolworths
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“I think that’s a neurosis common to men and women both, but maybe at a...”
– Norman Rush describes an obstacle to the unnamed narrator of Mating’s happiness in love. The blog posts I wrote while I was reading Mating are here and here. The rest of this enormously satisfying interview with Rush and his wife Elsa is in the Paris Review.
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“I don’t wish to convey messages—period. But I look carefully at certain...”
– My interview with Jonathan Franzen is up at Goodreads. I had trouble picking a favorite part and settled on this. Other contenders were: his evaluation of the pros and cons (primarily cons) of the institution of marriage, his succinct summary of the history of the novel, and the part where I asked...
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"This place sucks," Manhattan resident Woody... →
(via ruthcurry)
This was good but my favorite part was that one of the last straws was “the thought of growing into a person whose meanness and cynicism is cloaked in a kind of holier-than-thou brand of sarcasm that the rest of the world finds nauseating”
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“The nude beach provides so much more entertainment than a regular trip to the...”
– Hey There: On a Hot Day, Do Yerself a Solid…
The naked truth (if you click there is a photo!!!!!!!)
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“The internet interrupted me to barf everywhere once more.
“You okay?” I said.”
– The Time I Tried To Defend Jonathan Franzen To The Internet 