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Interiority Combustion Engine by Ed Simon

Interiority Combustion Engine by Ed Simon

From 140 to 10,000?

“I kind of look for stealth ways to write about writers”

“I kind of look for stealth ways to write about writers”

Booked

Easel Painting or Classical Music

What was the first great American novel?

Hoaxes of Dreams

Hoaxes of Dreams

‘Pop songs are deeply monological’

‘Pop songs are deeply monological’

Zadie Smith: “People are always dreaming, when they are reading novels, of some kind of perfection in them, some kind of purity”

Derek Beaulieu: A Future for the Novel

Derek Beaulieu: A Future for the Novel

When Things Pivot

‘The novel as film script is about as far as it is possible to get from many of the ideas at the root of the literary canon’

Cool masculinity in Laura Restrepo’s hardboiled fiction