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David O'Neill and Rebecca Ariel Porte - by jamie hood

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[In February, I reached out to friends and colleagues about contributing to this durational project on La Recherche. Partly this was self-interested: I felt it would be useful to have regimented opportunities to step back from my own writing inside of it—the indelible relief of handing over the keys to the castle—and partly it was about calcifying my sense of regards, marcel as a community effort. Two years of Proust is a significant journey to embark on: we need all hands on deck. Last month, we were offered a dispatch on the evocative history of madeleines from food writer and critic Alicia Kennedy. Today, I’m delighted to share a conversation on Proust, the pleasures and frustrations of the Search, translation, and fugu between my former Bookforum editor, David O’Neill, and Rebecca Ariel Porte, a writer and core faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. I hope you luxuriate in it as much as I have. — Jamie Hood] This past December, Bookforum, the twenty-eight-yea

David O'Neill and Rebecca Ariel Porte ; or, "We are having A CONVERSATION!" jamie hood May 15, 2023 ∙ Paid 4 1 1 Share [In February, I reached out to friends and colleagues about contributing to this durational project on La Recherche . Partly this was self-interested: I felt it would be useful to have regimented opportunities to step back from my own writing inside of it—the indelible relief of handing over the keys to the castle—and partly it was about calcifying my sense of regards, marcel as a community effort. Two years of Proust is a significant journey to embark on: we need all hands on

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