Today, ironically, my essay for @grantamag.bsky.social on his Narcissus Complex is out, one month after his death. I was unable to bring myself to change the tenses during the final copy edits. Present still seems right to me. granta.com/the-narcissu...
‘He knows who we are, and he reads the New York Times every day, although he doesn’t retain much, except the horror of it all.’
