Sunday, July 24, 2022

Middle-class male malaise

The ugly fact is books are made out of books. The novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written.

On the road to God knows where with the survivors.



Please stop saying that hot drinks cool you down


21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS:  “Very sexy sex isn’t aspirational enough anymore.”


Do the most effective stories develop slowly at the beginning and rapidly at the end?


Does cleaning make you feel better?


The era of the novel of middle-class male malaise “burned itself most beautifully out, leaving the way clear for other  stories 


The Schoolteacher Who Saved Her Students From the Nazis Smithsonian

So Many Writers Wish They Could Just Redo Their First Novel.  Akhil Sharma Did.

"He (has) revised and radically rewritten ... An Obedient Father, (which) he published 22 years earlier. Considerably shorter, with a very different ending but the same title, the novel ... reappears this month — more than 30 years after Sharma began it." - The New York Times Magazine


HMM:  Researchers identify a brain network for social attraction.


"The nature of grief is quite as highly variegated as its causes," says Joseph Epstein. "Grief, like the devil, is in the details” Devil in Detail