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William Gaddis’s The Recognitions,
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
I grew up on Richard Pryor, George Carlin, and Bill Cosby (I can say that, right?).
Mark Hoppus • Fahrenheit-182
Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas by Chuck Klosterman
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The production was dense and menacing, louder and harsher than any record we had made, and so were the lyrics. The album took on prescription drug addiction, the way the media distorts the news, the risks of technology, and the financial crisis. And that’s just on the title track. There’s another song, “75 Bars (Black’s Reconstruction),” where
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- Being a teen in the late 70s/early 80s in LA
- The collected works of Joan Didion
- Pauline Kael’s movie reviews from roughly 1971-1980.
- Robert Altman movies
- Corbin Fisher porn from 2005-2008.
Bret Easton Ellis on not writing novels – The Creative Independent
Criticism is not some inscrutable, mysterious process. It’s just a matter of: (1) noticing ourselves responding to a work of art, moment by moment, and (2) getting better at articulating that response.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo
a persistent theme that has a deep Augustinian resonance weaves its way throughout Camus’s corpus. It could be named in different ways: exile, alienation, stranger-hood.