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Andrew “Like Puke” Sullivan

Andrew “Milky Loads” Sullivan: [T]his book [Love Undetected]... came up like puke”

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Books of the year

Billy Hayes’ Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me; Douglas Thomas’ Never Use Futura

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“There’s language, then there’s blood”

David Shields, Other People: “I once felt joy in being alive and I felt this mainly when I was playing basketball and I rarely if ever feel that joy anymore and it’s my own damn fault and that’s life”

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Books of the year

Provocations by Camille Paglia and The Gift by Lewis Hyde

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‘Saving Beauty’

Saving Beauty by Han Byung-Chul surprised the shit out of me with the most arresting opening pages I have read in 30 years. Smooth “embodies today’s society of positivity. What is smooth does not...

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Novels: passé

Someday you’re gonna die. Imagine having spent your life reading literature and novels

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Books of the year 2019

Including three that permanently reset my mindset (term used advisedly)

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Book(s) of the year 2020

Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire

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This just in: Publishing still moribund

Helen Andrews’ Boomers shows the futility of the publishing oligopoly, which takes most of your money and still lets you get obvious facts wrong. But the alternate option – self-publishing without...

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Fiction fact-check

Just how many contemporary novels even deign to admit that email, TV, and bathrooms exist?

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