“I want to say something about bad writing. I'm proud of my bad writing. Everyone is so intelligent lately, and stylish. Fucking great. I am proud of Philip Guston's bad painting, I am proud of Baudelaire's mamma's boy goo goo misery. Sometimes the lurid or shitty means having a heart, which's something you have to try to have. Excellence nowadays is too general and available to be worth prizing: I am interested in people who have to find strange and horrible ways to just get from point a to point b.”
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Katie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Katie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Music, Poetry, Science fiction, Thriller, and Young-adult
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