![]() On Karen Russell's Vampires in the Lemon Grove for Capital New York. On JFK conspiracy-theories, for The New York Observer. On Eileen Simpson's Poets in Their Youth, and the life of John Berryman, for FSG’s Work in Progress. On Michael Sam's Dancing With the Stars debut, for Buzzfeed. On Vendela Vida’s The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty, and traveling alone on Vivian Gornick’s The Odd Woman and the City and wanting to be alone on Jonathan Lethem's Gun, with Occasional Music and trying to figure sex out, also while alone all for the Oyster Review. On One Direction’s “ Temporary Fix” for One Week One Band. On the things I can’t un-know about Lyndon Johnson. On Ellen Willis’s No More Nice Girls and Emily Carter’s Glory Goes and Gets Some, both for Emily Books. On Elena Ferrante’s nonfiction on Renata Adler’s nonfiction, both for The New Inquiry. On Karen Olsson’s All the Houses on Joan Didion on Jamie Bartlett's The Dark Net all for for Bookforum. On metaphor and coincidence and Rivka Galchen’s Little Labors on Alex Mar’s Witches of America, and the appeal of submission on Lucia Berlin and the female alcoholic, for Full-Stop. On New England’s obsessive relationship with Dunkin Donuts on the history and economics of brunch, and brunch-hating, both for Extra-Crispy. On being a teacher and feeling like a fake on the energy I waste online, both for The Awl. On Nathalie Léger’s Suite for Barbara Loden, and Loden’s film Wanda marriage proposals, those of cavemen and my own on Heather Havrilesky’s advice column and my self-defeating personality on the origins of the term “ pin money,” and working in publishing on a day of motion hearings at probate & family court on the history of the card game Cribbage, and family tradition, all for The Hairpin.Īlso on The Hairpin, a series on lesser-known celebrity relationships: John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands Sam Shepard and Jessica Lange Elliott Gould and Barbra Streisand Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina. On Iris Murdoch’s life and letters on Elena Ferrante, and the fact of the female body, for The New Republic. On the appropriately weathered faces of HBO’s Ferrante adaptation on Helen DeWitt's The Last Samurai on Norman Rush’s Mating and and football, all for The Paris Review Daily. On becoming a wife, and then a monster, for Catapult. On the first time Bella and Edward kiss in Twilight (spoiler alert: it's super horny) on envy and Instagram on marriage, and freedom, and leaving New York, all for The Cut. ![]() ![]() Hughes's In a Lonely Place and the relief of overt misogyny, for Triangle House. On HBO’s disappointingly tame adaptation of Sharp Objects Norm MacDonald’s counter-intuitive comedy the movie Punch-Drunk Love and an interview with BoJack Horseman’s Paul F. On the enduring enigma of Véra Nabokov, for LitHub. On George and Mary Oppen’s commitment to each other, and to fighting fascism on Chris Bachelder's The Throwback Special, and men trying ( mostly failing) to have feelings, both for The New Yorker online. ![]() ![]() On sex and politics and Adam Driver in a new production of “ Burn This,” for NYR Daily. On Francesco Pacifico’s novel The Women I Love on Bess Kalb’s memoir, Nobody Will Tell You This But Me, both for the New York Times. On Rachel Cusk’s novel Second Place, for The Literary Review. On Mary Robison’s “fiction of the superfluous,” for Harper’s Magazine. ![]()
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