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"Lacking a neat arc, 'The Snakes That Ate Florida' is more about the formation of an essayist."
Edna Bonhomme on the work of Ian Frazier and “The Snakes that Ate Florida”: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/snakes-that-ate-florida-ian-frazier-humorist-essays
This is a kind yet cogent and analytical rebuttal. Something isn't just weird fiction because it is surreal or has something weird in it. I kinda side eyed that original essay for its category errors.
Deb Olin Unferth on her new book: "I wanted to imagine a different way to preserve life. I’m tired of these massive technological band-aids that we’ve come up with to try to keep this whole thing going." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/deb-olin-unferth-earth-7-humanity-apocalypse-immortality/
"Durbin’s remarkable book is a guide to living for creation, for friendship—living as legacy."
Conor Williams reviews Andrew Durbin's "The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/peter-hujar-paul-thek-wonderful-world-almost-was/
"Like distressed jeans, the imperfections will be the point, on the implicit theory that humanness now resides in mess rather than mastery."
For our new issue, Krzysztof Pelc on the threat of LLMs: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/fakes-future-artificial-intelligence-llms-larb-quarterly-traffic/
"The audacity of aiming high and being truly ambitious with your work is when it hits, it feels incredible. The downside is you may have to wait for it."
—Maggie Smith on "A Suit or A Suitcase": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/suit-suitcase-maggie-smith-poetry-collection-process-inspiration
As an old weird queer, I support the New Queer Weird. And the old queer weird. And the queer weird. Weird and queer, queer and weird, all good.
"The secret is to allow the language to flow, to possess you."
Mitchell Abidor explores three new books by and about Romanian poet Paul Celan: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/paul-celan-life-letters-gisele-conversation-mountains-poetry
Lovely chatting with @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/suit...
Three new books by and about Romanian poet Paul Celan demonstrate that he was a problematic figure in many ways.
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“We’re interested in aesthetic weirdness that exceeds the bounds of what typically gets described as ‘weird.’”
The editors of the anthology "New Queer Weird" respond to a recent LARB essay: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/letter-editor-new-qweird-megan-milks-amber-dawn/
“We’re interested in aesthetic weirdness that exceeds the bounds of what typically gets described as ‘weird.’”
The editors of the anthology "New Queer Weird" respond to a recent LARB essay: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/letter-editor-new-qweird-megan-milks-amber-dawn/
