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Simon Wu is a curator and writer involved in collaborative art production and research. He has organized exhibitions and programs at the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney Museum, The Kitchen, MoMA, and David Zwirner, among other venues. In 2021 he was awarded an Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant and was featured in Cultured magazine's Young Curators series. He is a member of the Racial Imaginary Institute, was a 2018 Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, and is currently in the PhD program in History of Art at Yale University. He has two brothers, Nick and Duke, and loves the ocean. ...more

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Dancing on My Own: Essays o...

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Fruit Fly by Josh  Silver
Fruit Fly
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Great fun!
Reads like a Netflix thriller
Clever ending
Very clean and precise
Enjoyable and easy
May not linger with me
Voices very authentic
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My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
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Even better second time around
Struck by the fact that this is told retrospectively and she keeps that pov the whole time
Some passages took my breath away

This one reallt early on

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My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
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Even better second time around
Struck by the fact that this is told retrospectively and she keeps that pov the whole time
Some passages took my breath away

This one reallt early on

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Things I Don't Want to Know by Deborah Levy
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Cost of living better
Still cool that she leaves a ton unsaid
Sandwich memoir
Shes got a thing for chinese guys? Like Duras?
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Transcription by Ben Lerner
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Banger per usual
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See You at the Finish Line by Zac Hammett
See You at the Finish Line
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Very acceptable romance
Nothing super special
But still nice
And gay
George is barely believable but Lucas is much more believable
George (the tall one) is the fantasy i guess anyways
Finished in Aspen 2026
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The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
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Holy shit
Gonna be thinking about this one for a long time
Incredible
Maybe one of the best ive read in years
Some incredible metaphors

“An accent that could strip paint”
Love like a “brightened moon in the daytime sky, as if its private gravity might lift
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Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash
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“The truth is funny!”

I liked this! She’s very young but she is funny and that is hard to do actually. Some things felt on the fringe of believable but she’s so young, so I’m excited to see what else comes from her. Solid debut

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Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood
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Man what a bonkers book but I actually really loved it in the end. Has been really useful to rewire my thinking on my writing.

First off the chapters are basically like essays, and within each paragraph each sentence doesn’t necessarily have a relati
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The Pilgrim Hawk by Glenway Wescott
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“Who, and what, do we leave behind in all this middle-class striving? But also, I get it. Without this upward drive, how else could my parents have gotten me to where I am? There will be corners of this house that will always be dark to me.”
Simon Wu, Dancing on My Own: Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy

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