Clare Snow’s Reviews > In the Land of Men: A Memoir > Status Update
Clare Snow
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"We never really see our own limitations, even when everyone else does. Our subjective self always exceeds our objective self, meaning you always know your own possibilities, even when no one else does.
Or, to put it another way: if you are a woman, you will always be underestimated."
— Aug 21, 2026 04:33AM
Or, to put it another way: if you are a woman, you will always be underestimated."
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Clare Snow
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"My preference was to not have to deal with people if I could help it."
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Clare Snow
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"Hearing about these various traumas was helpful in a very important way, though. They introduced me to one of the most important aspects of the editor's job: defusing writer rage."
— 5 hours, 30 min ago
Clare Snow
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"Our novels were now internal monologues - the dream world of the self."
— 5 hours, 40 min ago
Clare Snow
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"Power is also invisible when you have it. But you can't see anything straight if you're too close - you keep losing your perspective."
— 5 hours, 57 min ago
Clare Snow
is on page 114 of 340
They didn't care in any way, shape or form. 30 years later, they still don't
— Aug 22, 2026 04:19AM
Clare Snow
is on page 112 of 340
So glad Miller skipped ahead chronologically:
David Foster Wallace: "She looks quite a bit more like Brent Musburger than I'm comfortable with."
I keep hoping Miller won't go all "he was my friend," and maybe she won't
— Aug 22, 2026 04:12AM
David Foster Wallace: "She looks quite a bit more like Brent Musburger than I'm comfortable with."
I keep hoping Miller won't go all "he was my friend," and maybe she won't
Clare Snow
is on page 98 of 340
"The week before Thanksgiving, I committed myself to review Infinite Jest for GQ. (By that point, somehow, and probably unwisely, I could review anything I wanted to review.)"
— Aug 22, 2026 03:12AM
Clare Snow
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"What we didn't know was that power was the motivator."
— Aug 21, 2026 06:33AM
Clare Snow
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"Everyone should always bring truffles with them all the time."
I guess it was too much to hope this was a funny story...
— Aug 21, 2026 06:30AM
I guess it was too much to hope this was a funny story...
Clare Snow
is on page 79 of 340
Kafka wrote in a letter 'I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for?'
— Aug 21, 2026 06:08AM