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The well-known critic Harold Bloom edited a series of books entitled Bloom’s BioCritiques, which features a variety of his fellow critics discussing an author’s body of work.
Susan Reynolds • Fire Up Your Writing Brain
As Harold Bloom has shown, the real American religion is “to be free of other selves.”
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
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Writer and activist James Baldwin on the power of reading:
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been ali
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“…the stammerings of an old man who does not seem to have achieved a full psychic victory over an awkward adolescence…”
Eugene Thacker • Infinite Resignation
Emerson:
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