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‘How to explain this resolve to write, this firm unwavering intent to become a writer on the part of someone who may not even really care for books?’
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‘The anglophone world, we have to infer, has run out of words for its own feelings.’
Daisy Hildyard on the wisdom of scarecrows.
‘What is the read receipt for?’
Lillian Fishman on texting, power and the ethics of leaving a friend on read.
‘Like pretty much everyone who uses the internet, I have seen many terrible things that I did not search for and that I cannot unsee.’
Rosanna McLaughlin on what the internet thinks she wants.
‘I have a pathological addiction to the internet, which I indulge with the excuse of making art. It rarely translates to anything good and mostly leaves me overstimulated and afraid.’
Paul Dalla Rosa on excess and the internet.
‘rumors of bees on speedwell, / no oxidative stress just / effortless pollination’
Two poems by Sylvia Legris.
Walter Abish was born in Vienna in 1931, moving to America in 1957. Since 1970, he has published six books, including Alphabetical Africa (1974) and How German Is It? (1980) which won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1981 (both books are published by New Directions). Abish then served on the board of International PEN from 1982-1988, and currently serves as a fellow for American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His most recent work, a memoir entitled Double Vision: A Self Portrait, was published in 2004.
More about the author →‘It took him only a moment to eliminate all doubt. The opportunity was ripe.’
‘I believe in the harmony of my friendship to Gisela rather than in the binding force that the institution of marriage is said to represent.’
‘It ended up taking fourteen years. But on the other hand, it only ended up taking five minutes.’
Sheila Heti on writing her latest book, Alphabetical Diaries, editing and the instability of a self-portrait.
‘The world comes down on your head if you don’t tell people what they already believe to be true.’
Andrew O’Hagan on truth, journalism and fiction.
‘You are what you do, and you are what you write, to some extent, I believe that at least.’
Lauren Oyler on personality, intention and the collapse between private and authorial selves.
‘I must remember god is not my private / secretary.’
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