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  • Texting with … Daniel Gascón

    Texting with … Daniel Gascón

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    « They can’t monopolize your conversation. »

  • Texting with … Nell Zink

    Texting with … Nell Zink

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    « When Americans rip off other people, nobody notices. »

  • Texting with … Vincenzo Latronico

    Texting with … Vincenzo Latronico

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    « Nobody will want to read my book if I come across as a guy who quotes Kant on Whatsapp »

  • TWGGAWI™

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    Ripley and the enduring story of the white guy getting away with it. « Even with murder. Especially with murder! »

  • The anarcho-astrologer

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    Javier Milei, literarily considered

  • Streuselkuchen

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    A story about coolness. « The phone rings. It is Jim Jarmusch, and he asks if I want to come over to his place. »

  • Schwarzeneggerology

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    On Arnold, action cinema & Übermenschlichkeit. « Arnold Schwarzenegger was action cinema’s Adamic man, alternately entering and exiting normal human time. »

  • Flags & bones

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    On Curzio Malaparte’s Europe — and ours. The midcentury novelist read anew, on war’s aftermath and transatlantic romance. What was, or is, « postwar Europe », anyway?

  • Gerard Croiset & the adventure of the psychic detective

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    The clairvoyant Dutch grocer who charted the frontiers of parapsychology and lent a hand to the FBI. « Unbelievable but true! »

  • A sangre fría

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    Fernanda Melchor’s prose hits you square in the face, but its lyricism works differently in Spanish. On Veracruzano modernism, lyrical slang, and worlds so new that style falls apart.

  • How Americans edit sex out of my writing

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    What is editing? Two people who both lead a literary life — an augmented reality where the connections between existence and sentences are investigated daily — wage sensual war for the soul…

  • Football is not football

    Football is not football

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    How do literary movements arise? About thirty years ago, I watched one emerge out of nothing: the subgenre of « literary » football books and magazines. Not exactly the birth…