At Bookslut, Elizabeth Bachner wonders “whether, on average, people are lonelier in real life than in novels.”
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At Bookslut, Elizabeth Bachner wonders “whether, on average, people are lonelier in real life than in novels.”
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“American writers alive today are expected to work as if Gertrude Stein never existed. Gertrude Stein, in her time, had that same problem.” (Via. See also.)
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“I used to want to be like June Miller when I was a teenager, because she sounded so beautiful and so seductive and so dangerous… It’s interesting I didn’t want to be like Henry or Anaïs instead — the writers. I wanted to be like someone who never wrote anything.”
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“We see over and over love meeting pain, silence meeting silence, silence meeting nothing at all.” Elizabeth Bachner reads Ingeborg Bachmann-Paul Celan: Correspondence, letters and gaps spanning 20+ years.
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