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Wright explored his own “dark landscape,” describing two experiences that lay behind the creation of the novel. The first–an encounter with the “strangely familiar,” an idea that recurs throughout the book–took place in Chicago, shortly before his grandmother’s death in 1934. … he read a book that “miraculously

Zelenskyy's adviser Mykhailo Podolyak claims them to be a fiction: “Putin doesn’t understand military stuff. He’s a guy that people come and show him some cartoon about how the missile will fly, how nobody will be able to shoot it down. He said the same thing

nothing I write can satisfy me today so I read some Breyten Breytenbach shut up Breyten Breytenbach shut up in Paris where the women chant life woman liberty and bare their breasts the life the woman the liberty the end cannot satisfy me neither can the beginning you are the

who does? the violent man-emperor who is? that for whom the merchants weep . . . in the porno of the human condition, the market where it is traded as commodity . . . John lists 29 luxury products of Roman world trade from gold, wine, olive oil — to slaves. If the beast signifies imperialist politics,

I never let my feelings know what I’m going to make them feel. I play with my sensations like a bored princess with her large, viciously agile cats. I slam doors within me where certain sensations were about to pass in order to be realized. I quickly clear their

Egg, one of nine stations, including fresh juice bar, Malay, Chinese, Indian breakfasts, curries, salads, fresh roti, French toast, pastries, pickles, cold meats, kefir, coffee, choosing of course the Masala, Breakfast alone worth the 10 hour flight we were to undertake. And the Ritz-Carlton, J in Matthew Barney moment, We