Writing Something Irresponsible: The Millions Interviews Andrew Martin
I wanted to write something irresponsible, or at least not worry about whether or not I was following the rules of proper conduct and proper novel writing.
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Nicknames I Have Known (Or: An Elegy for the Mooch)
There was Joe Bugs, an exterminator and small-town mayor, whose one daughter married my uncle. There was Ernie the Attorney, who grew up with Pop and became the family lawyer. There was Satellite Bob, who installed and fixed his televisions for decades. There was Video Bob, too (before my time), and there was Ralphie Boy (a hefty man, so large and so old, it’s nearly impossible to imagine him as a child).
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The Path to Destruction: On Sarah Gerard’s ‘Binary Star’
The prose becomes wonderfully cyclic, like the plot, and it’s unclear whether the universe, she, or society is the thing that’s sick.
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