50s movie: Naked Abandon 60s movie: A New Day 70s movie: Street Dope 80s movie: Screen Demons 90s movie: Held in Contempt 00s movie: You Won’t Remember Me 10s movie: Anhedonia 20s movie: Pringles

Middle-aged authors should be allowed to go on tour and read the debuts they wrote in their twenties front-to-back for like $250/seat… if Alice In Chains can do it why not Mary Gaitskill?

Thomas Pynchon Shadow Ticket:

In a lifetime of writing fiction I will never come up with a character name as improbable as “Ace Steve Greene”

“Rep’d by” in bio… either a bona fide pro or a total hack. No middle ground

I imagine Ana knows this but for the record this attitude is ungenerous, especially when the book in question is a WWI-era western-spy thriller about time travel. The average American is plenty capable of enjoying a postmodern novel and assuming otherwise is needlessly divisive.

Really hope they cure dementia before I reach old age. Imagine a millennial writer with dementia. Shitting into a bedpan in tears while I interrogate the lamp about the numbers on the Emma Cline post. Just fry my ass

Boys chat dispatch:

Because people are asking: I have very little knowledge of what's become of D since the events described in this post... I assume she's still in NY, and based on what shows up on Google it looks like the fund is still active. I don't know what the money supports at this point