degrees of freedom: character and situation - by Brandon
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forster, wharton, and a bad novel i just read, lol
Hello friends— First, some news: I had a new short story called “Other Years” published in Action, Spectacle Also, Garth Greenwell is teaching a course on how to read poetry! I wrote an intro for a newly published edition of Portrait of a Lady. I wrote the intro for Wading in Waist-High Water: The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes out now! (The Intro was excerpted at The New Yorker). I recently read a new novel that was competently composed. I didn’t enjoy it very much. For several reasons, lol. Aesthetically, the thing that annoyed me most about the book was that it was filled with what I’ve…
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