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I read new fiction, as I knew writers must, but the stuff that everyone was talking about back then was written by men - Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, John Updike, Philip Roth. I read them dutifully, and admired them, but I couldn’t see any way into that world.
(3) Niagara Falls All Over Again
Pop culture soothes and placates with a steady series of uncomplicated morality tales in predigested narratives where nothing ever really changes and so there’s no worry that the storyline will move in a way that hurts your feelings. Crowdsourced “content” is built on ephemerality.
Freddie DeBoer • You Are You. We Live Here. This Is Now.
Enshiu derided his own taste as too mainstream to be truly great. Yet catering to “the taste of the majority” might be the single goal of…
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy
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crisis of taste,
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
What are the unwatched programmes on your Sky+ but taunting reminders of who we might really like to be?