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"Last night I grabbed a drink with a woman in grad school for Library Science and she did not even get my very basic Knausgård joke (I had to tell her that he was an author) and she implied I was sexist because I did not want to read what sounded like a children's book about dragon riders but with SP"
"There's a part in one of the Knausgaard books where he talks about this but I can't recall the passage."
"When I was twenty-four I had a flash of insight: that this was in fact my life, this is exactly what it looked like and presumably always would. That one's studies, this fabled and much-talked about period in a life, on which one always looked back with pleasure, were for me no more than a series of"
"there is no 'voice of a generation' for millennials (zoomers are too young to have one, obviously). i don't think there's been genuine, widespread excitement for a book since knausgaard was doing his little memoirs."
"Bob Dylan is the master of the selfless self, the king of the not-one's-one, a deeply paradoxical figure who lived and breathed the music of this deeply paradoxical country. All writers, artists and musicians know the feeling: when you disappear into what you are doing, lose yourself in it and are n"
"Like yea it's Brocialist lit 101 and it's not Joyce or Pynchon or even Franzen or Knausgaard."
"There's a part in one of the Knausgaard books where he talks about this but I can't recall the passage."