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"The book expects something interesting to arise in due course through its breadth and chronological exhaustion, but fails to strike the kind of gold that comes only from a specific kind of digging at a specific site." Billy Lennon on Tim MacMahon clereviewofbooks.com/i-think-its-go…

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Here's some books I would love to read some reviews thereof

The timespan between Television's Marquee Moon and The Strokes's Is This It is the same as the timespan between Is This It and the present

For a certain, not negligible, subset of MAGA, the disappearance of the Epstein Files is their Rosenbergs

went to philadelphia to talk to alex g pitchfork.com/features/alex-…

Someone should write a big review of contemporary literary tropes: liberal inaction disguised as bewilderment, pity disguised as liberal utopianism, etc

As I've always said, New York is the Cleveland of the northeast

I think recent attention toward Beckett/Bernhard in U.S. English fiction is fun to delineate! But I feel that the answer is simple: the "German" sentence-structure allows one to replicate the manic pacing of contemporary language, within the guardrails of clear grammatical order.

for the CRB, i ponder violence in fiction, the eternal problem of world literature, and the ambivalence of cultural diplomacy

Couldn't say the same myself

I already swore him in for "egg-shaped hog-calling ass boot-sucking ozarkian of the century (so far)"

Probably the most impactful rock vocalist after Elvis

Can't wait for the "big scary naked old lady" trope to rear its ugly head in this one too

Someone's really jealous he didn't get into the Brown MFA

slothrop and pointsman

Very great review of a book by a longtime mufo and dm confidant, also one of the GOATs of contemporary literature who just so happens to be named after a character in little mermaid

*my favorite charater