The Trouble with Love: David Shields on Marriage’s Discontents
We’re all vectors on the grid of our own irreducible drives and that we’re destined to find someone with whom to enact these drives.
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Long Live the Anti-Novel, Built from Scraps
When I began, I was just trying to follow the Kafka dictum 'A book should be an axe to break the frozen sea within us.'
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All Great Works of Literature Either Dissolve a Genre or Invent One: A Reading List
A contemplation of Dyer, Markson, and Coetzee, three books that embody my aesthetic really, really well, plus many additional titles to explore.
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A Year in Reading: David Shields
I reread this book seemingly monthly, attempting--futilely--to figure out how he managed this brief, perfect magic trick.
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