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- Mar 20
- 1 min
loved
“People said this crop of youth was weak, but we knew differently. We knew they were so strong -- so much stronger than us, and equipped...
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- Mar 20
- 12 min
THE LOSER THING
From the archive: Rhonda Lieberman on the art of failure “While no one is making masterpieces anymore, no one is trying to make them...
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- Mar 10
- 3 min
WIR 3/10/23
In bed - 2 essays from Camille Paglia Provocations because it was on the bedside table. "The Italian Way of Death" and "Women in Magic in...
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- Mar 10
- 8 min
Constance Debré and Chris Kraus on queer identity, casual sex and the politics of refusal via Granta
Constance Debré is the author of Play Boy, winner of the 2018 Coupole Prize, and Love Me Tender, translated from the French by Holly...
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- Feb 2
- 10 min
UNCENSORED: CAMILLE PAGLIA ON RIHANNA, IDENTITY POLITICS, AND SEXUALITY
The social critic and academic queen of controversy opens up in a candid interview with V. March 27, 2017 TEXT: ALEX KAZEMI Camille...
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- Jan 24
- 27 min
The Trials of the Young: A Semester by MARY GAITSKILL
In 2014 I was hired, for two consecutive spring semesters, to teach writing and literature at one of the officially happiest colleges in...
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- Jan 23
- 1 min
another heartbreaker
“I warned you, he says, I warned you, Harry, but youth is deaf. Youth is careless.”
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- Dec 16, 2022
- 15 min
My Writing Education: A Time Line by George Saunders
George Saunders and his wife, Paula, in 1986. February 1986 Tobias Wolff calls my parents’ house in Amarillo, Texas, leaves a message:...
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