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Kyle Williams

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Kyle Williams is a student at Brooklyn College, studying creative writing and literature. You can find more from him on Tumblr at kaywhyelleee.tumblr.com, but don't feel like you have to.
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Miserable Lives, All Lit by the Neon Glow

  • Kyle Williams
  • November 8, 2016
At Harper’s Bazaar, Jason Diamond revisits the literary brat pack in the harsh morning light of thirty years later, examining their histories (real and really sensationalized) in hope of moving…
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Superman Is a Bad Translation

  • Kyle Williams
  • November 7, 2016
For Slate, Shon Arieh-Lerer and Daniel Hubbard provide a video rundown of pop culture’s use of Nietzsche, starting with contemporaneous forces made his philosophy be mangled by Nazi power and ending…
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World Scheduled to End This Weekend

  • Kyle Williams
  • November 7, 2016
And it’s funny—people bring up the fact that Black Wave starts out as memoir and turns into fiction, but… isn’t that what fiction is? Over at BOMB, Sara Jaffe sat…
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Into Paradox

  • Kyle Williams
  • October 31, 2016
Over at the New York Review of Books, Peter E. Gordon writes about Søren Kierkegaard’s legacy through the lens of Daphne Hampson’s biography, Kierkegaard: Exposition and Critique, which she dedicates…
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Who Are These Girls?

  • Kyle Williams
  • October 31, 2016
At FiveThirtyEight, Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven, provides another perspective on books with “girl” in the title, complete with statistical analysis and fantastic graphs.
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Not a True Friend

  • Kyle Williams
  • October 31, 2016
…one has no idea, no idea at all, what it’s about. What’s the point of all this? What does it all mean? At Lit Hub, Claude Arnaud shares an excerpt from…
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Sticking Like Burrs

  • Kyle Williams
  • October 24, 2016
Our personal pasts aren’t factual records. They’re made up on the spot, synthesized from disjointed details to answer questions we have in the present. For KROnline, Natalie Mesnard and Patrick D.…
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The Geography of Rock Bottom

  • Kyle Williams
  • October 24, 2016
Like, your life is falling apart and shit is pretty fucked up and you come to the conclusion that if you just split town you could chill out and be…
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Dread and Magic

  • Kyle Williams
  • October 24, 2016
Isn’t the crowd itself a kind of anti-literature, an intensely physical impediment to the inwardness required of poetry and prose? At Lit Hub, Dustin Illingworth writes about literature that theorizes “the…
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All That Is Suggested of Trauma

  • Kyle Williams
  • October 18, 2016
At the New York Review of Books, Joyce Carol Oates writes about Shirley Jackson through her seminal story “The Lottery,” her contemporaneous public perception via hate mail, the figure of her…
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A Terrible Question with No Satisfactory Answer

  • Kyle Williams
  • October 17, 2016
For better or worse, poetry is now the only thing he likes to do. Even with the crying and the hopeless odds. Over at The Point, O.T. Marod writes about…
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Arendt on Trump

  • Kyle Williams
  • October 17, 2016
Evil is not one man, but rather the process of normalization via which exclusion, deportation, and finally extermination are all rendered morally justifiable. At Lit Hub, Rafia Zakaria writes an essay…
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