
My Review of the First 40 Pages of My Struggle
I’ve always been curious about this book, My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård. I was working in bookstores when the first book of this 2,700 page memoir of someone …
Read MoreI know things that nobody else knows, not even me.
I’ve always been curious about this book, My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård. I was working in bookstores when the first book of this 2,700 page memoir of someone …
Read MoreHow to read poetry: Buy a book of poetry from a poet everyone is talking about. Skim through the book if you want, or put it straight on your bookshelf …
Read More[First published at http://vol1brooklyn.com/2021/02/26/fearless-and-loving-near-las-vegas-a-review-of-lisa-carvers-the-pahrump-report/] There is a moment in her new book The Pahrump Report, when Lisa Carver responds to a question about her occupation by answering: “I am a writer.” …
Read MoreI can’t say that the Berkshires is the first place that would normally come to my mind when I think of a nice little getaway, but what I can say …
Read MoreIf you’ve spent enough time on social media, you’ve probably experienced it: someone you know begins to exhibit signs of mental instability for everyone to witness in the spotlight of …
Read More[Originally published by Arc Digital: https://arcdigital.media/the-new-moral-majority-same-as-the-old-moral-majority-13f7402e1287] Like many right-wing American anti-obscenity activists, Terry Rakolta was a very concerned and busy citizen in the late ’80s and early ’90s. The self-described housewife and …
Read MoreStanding in line at Dollar General. Ahead of me is a very elderly man, who walked in minutes earlier and immediately grabbed a random customer and asked for help finding …
Read MoreOne of my neighbors is that type who was born and raised in the Hudson Valley, but since she had a taste of living in Brooklyn for four years, she …
Read MoreSanta, coffee and QAnon in Buffalo, NY https://medium.com/@ricroyer/qanon-is-coming-to-town-211dec5f9410
Read MoreI don’t love George W Bush, and I don’t hate him either, but as he gets older, I am starting to realize that I really want to fuck him. I …
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