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“In The Future, Everyone Will Be Famous”: A Conversation with John Green
Initially, I thought I was writing about what we exchange when we give aspects of our private lives to the public for attention, which is something that used to be a problem mostly for movie stars and now is a…
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Dinner Party at the End of the World
At the dinner party table, I looked toward my friend. She had also turned to her phone, where an endless compilation of rare Labubu unboxings played on the screen. I resisted the urge to tell her I hold a conspiracy…
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Literature as Linguistic Event: A Conversation with Hernan Diaz
In all of my books, including Ply, I have paragraphs where time is suspended because there are no conjugated verbs—only infinitives and participles. I try to do it unobtrusively. If you don’t notice, that’s mission accomplished. You don’t have to…
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I Am Having a Breakdown
There is no margin of error or time for illness, which means if I slow down, the entire schedule—which is a well-oiled machine at this point—implodes. So any time someone is like, “Girl, you need to rest,” I want to…
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Is Body Horror Skin Deep?: How “The Substance” ushered in a new era of anti-woman horror
The Substance falls right into the same historic trappings of the misogynistic punishment rituals that horror has long perpetrated. So why is the film—and the media it has inspired since its release—hailed as a feminist masterpiece?
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Susan Howe: Music Until Proven Otherwise
When the irruptive squall of language abates, when storm clouds separate, Susan intones, “You are of me & I of you, I cannot tell / Where you leave off and I begin.”
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Synthetic Heaven
And when the high would hit, I would think to myself—This. This for as long as I can. More than summer and bicycles and flowers littered on the pavement like confetti, more than the way Sydney looks in the spring,…
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The Dumbbell
Years passed by in a vaseline blur, sticky and tactile. His body was a glue trap that gathered all kinds of flotsam: unexplained bruises, living room stick-n-pokes, fat gained and lost. Performing made him feel sexy in a way that…
