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Rereading as I approach 29 on a housing hunt with a New York salary that barely keeps me in Lindt 70% dark chocolate

love to get really into autofiction 10 years after the fact

This is so fucking fun

I’m still searching for the great contemporary psychoanalysis novel

Sit down, Breton

Aurora Mattia has entered the greatest living American writer convo for me

The “burning of Moscow” becoming a real slog…?!

This guy didn’t need the Internet to fry his attention span; prescient king!

Over the last few days, whenever I’ve gotten irked about something minor, I think about Prince Andrei lying on the battlefield at Austerlitz looking at the sky, and it’s cured me.

Yes Albertine, leave his sad lying ass

Vinteuil’s septet: one of the most stunning passages about music, memory, and art I’ve ever read.

We are so back ha ha !

Dear GR friends: my debut, Underspin, is now available to pre-order at Bookshop.org and other major distributors. It's "a love letter to an underdog sports circuit and a tender exploration of love, loss and abuse." It's also me riffing on being a teen and wanting to claw your own skin off. Would be so grateful if you checked it out :)

When I finish these and My Struggle and Proust, am I fucked?

Can’t believe I got this far in/adjacent to literary studies without learning about the historical origins Formalism…they do make me feel imprisoned, though.

Feeling freer and more constrained than ever; just a wisp of social condensation watching itself wobble on the cold cold window of the world…which TWA might say is the best we can hope for, at this late stage.

Wish Dosto were here to write about Luigi Mangione…