“One day I woke up and I understood how unexplored this city is, all these invisible ties between cultures.”
Diary of a Dipshit
My therapist told me I had every symptom a woman molested as a girl presents in treatment.
On Giving Up
“I believe people who say that The Sound and the Fury becomes great when you get to the second part or, ideally, when you read the whole thing for the second time; what you rarely hear is how to get through the first part for the first time.”
Heart Tattoo
‘Left the party without telling anyone.
Moved to Miami without telling anyone.
Vials of K with a blond in Divinity School.
Lines of blow with a blond who took crypto.’
Ukraine
Two Fussy Linguists
“I went to a doctor in the 1980s in New York; he said I shouldn’t get HIV-tested at that point because then the feds would know about it. But he did tell me that I had a vestigial third nipple.” – Wayne Koestenbaum
Ten books chosen by William Boyd
It took William Boyd three failed attempts at writing a novel before he hit gold with A Good Man in Africa, which won him both the Whitbread Book Award for a first novel and the Somerset Maugham Award. That was in 1981, and Boyd hasn’t stopped to draw breath since. His 16th novel, Trio, was […]
The King
“The guests weren’t seated according to seniority. Foolish old age is no less pitiful than cowardly youth. And they weren’t seated according to wealth. A heavy wallet is lined with tears.”
Janet Malcolm on being a “tough, not-nice woman.”
“You can’t keep your mouth shut all the time, of course, but you do well to keep it shut a lot of the time.”
Ten Books By Dissidents and Outlaws
The writer Jeanette Winterson once described books as “agents of freedom,” and that image of a book’s power has come to provide some moments of reprieve in the last few weeks as Putin has sent his troops into Ukraine. If Putin’s tactics have resembled those of Hitler, using a Russian-speaking enclave of Ukraine as a […]
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