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Stetson
is 53% done
Worried the female nick caraway narrator doesn't have a real reason to be or that it's entirely ad hoc. The novel's conceit appears completed by the halfway point.
— Feb 18, 2026 02:33PM
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Stetson
is 75% done
Lots ekphrasis as Zillow p*rn in the book's latter half. The POV character's motivations are a bit opaque despite regular (vague & unconvincing) meta-commentary on them.
— Feb 20, 2026 09:36AM
Stetson
is 20% done
Joukovsky appears to be re-setting the table on her dyad-swapping relationship square structure that she used in A Portrait of a Mirror, but maybe that's a fake out. The character ages are advanced in the future, though they're also nakedly semi-autobiographical too. Class-status dynamics also are make explicit in the text (similar to how the topic is handle in the film The Materialists).
— Feb 17, 2026 10:24AM
