This is such a good essay on Gass: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/rev...
"I asked them if they did this kind of thing often. First time, they said, and pointed out that this study only recruited first-timers. Your body’s data was only valuable once." —Max Callimanopulos for @nplusonemag.com
“The Knicks were in the midst of blowing a fourteen-point lead halfway through the fourth quarter, and my grief at what was unfolding mingled with my awareness of how absurd it was to feel grief about such a thing in a hospital, a scene of real grief.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
60 miles of tunnels run under the Chicago loop - a vast, utopian infrastructure project mostly abandoned by the mid 20th century. Retired steelworker Tom Wells documented them in 3d photographs in the late 80s. I wrote about trying to find the photos for @nplusonemag.com and @chicagoreader.com
“He bore all the elements of approachability, arranged instead to disconcert.” In n+1, Nicholas Dames writes an excellent essay about William Gass. @nplusonemag.com @njdames.bsky.social
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/rev...
If Gass entertained any escape fantasies, however, The Tunnel does not indulge them. It’s the big, the biggest, Man Alone in a House story. It’s an anti–systems novel, uninterested in conspiracist lin...
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The Knicks were in the midst of blowing a fourteen-point lead halfway through the fourth quarter, and my excitement at this situation, the sheer merriment and life force of it all, mingled with my gri...
The human hand has twenty-nine bones and twenty-nine major joints. It contains over one hundred ligaments, connected to thirty-four muscles in the palm alone, each one responsible for the minute…
If Gass entertained any escape fantasies, however, The Tunnel does not indulge them. It’s the big, the biggest, Man Alone in a House story. It’s an anti–systems novel, uninterested in conspiracist lin...
“We found dozens of machine parts and radio tubes, small cans of carbide and lubricant, and also a jar of mercury. We found rusted stovetop covers and barstools and wires, along with a large wooden hamper purchased in Minnesota from a pair of Amish girls.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Sundance marked LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE’S anniversary with a special screening — a celebration that felt more like a funeral.
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/ess...
n+1
The following weekend, I returned to the storage lockers with my partner, Blair. Upon arriving, we removed the picnic table and wooden chairs and machinery and placed it all on the gravel road that ra...
New online: @morleymusick.bsky.social tries to find his way underground in a new City Mouse column co-published with the @chicagoreader.com.
Philip Leventhal
Among filmmakers, dread over money seemed to outweigh any sense of buzz. By the first weekend the lack of major sales had already become a central topic of conversation. As it happens, two of the best...
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“William Gass remains bewildering: so unmarked by his time as to seem antique, so much more ahead of everything as to make you despair that no one has really yet caught up.”
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“Now and then there would be a bad sound—a person being punctured or having a bandage removed—and these coexisted with this other chaotic crowd sound of muted little cheers and applause.” New: Thomas Beller watches the Knicks in an unlikely place.
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The following weekend, I returned to the storage lockers with my partner, Blair. Upon arriving, we removed the picnic table and wooden chairs and machinery and placed it all on the gravel road that ra...
The Knicks were in the midst of blowing a fourteen-point lead halfway through the fourth quarter, and my excitement at this situation, the sheer merriment and life force of it all, mingled with my gri...
www.nplusonemag.com
If Gass entertained any escape fantasies, however, The Tunnel does not indulge them. It’s the big, the biggest, Man Alone in a House story. It’s an anti–systems novel, uninterested in conspiracist lin...
