archives for Tuesday 18 November 2008

the real motivation behind the un

Tuesday 18 November 2008 | 5 cookies in the jar


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naked as we came

Tuesday 18 November 2008 | 9 cookies in the jar

[In which Miss Bovary reviews Lauren Slater, and adroitly, with admirable calm, so we subsequently discuss Marya Hornbacher, whom she avers is a better writer, but then I get cold feet after looking at her (Marya’s) blog, and start thinking about the embattled genre of confessional memoir all over again.]
The radical of my personal skittishness […]

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cracky

Tuesday 18 November 2008 | 3 cookies in the jar

Why am I just sitting here, snug in the second-skin placentaesque sweatpants, reading obsessively about Roberto Bolaño (2666) and Joanna Scott (”Unsteady.”) and listening to “If I Had a Rocket Launcher” and “Bouncing off Clouds“  and “Crazy as Me” and not, not, not getting ready/dressed/kitted up/fitted out for work?
Because I’m singularly uninterested in knowing what […]

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