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it's harder than it looks to simply describe what we see ✦ Brian Dillon and Lauren Oyler on literary criticism ✦ character and nature in Olga Tokarczuk and Mircea Cărtărescu's novels ✦ consumer goods

mere description it's harder than it looks to simply describe what we see ✦ Brian Dillon, Lauren Oyler on criticism ✦ character and nature, by Olga Tokarczuk and Mircea Cărtărescu ✦ attempting to write about music Celine Nguyen Dec 17, 2023 66 6 9 Share We describe things. All the time. And those descriptions can be ordinary, unremarkable, obvious—or they can be strange, surreal, exciting, unexpected. When I write I’m always trying to do the second kind of description (good, interesting, literary description) and avoid the first. But it’s hard to describe things well, like really well. And lat

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