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Jeff Tweedy Used to Browse Encyclopedias for Hours on End
  + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
The book takes somewhere around 300 texts of other books and compiles them into a narrative with no humans. Describe your ideal reading experience. My ideal reading experience is almost the same as my ideal writing experience. When you’re writing in a certain frame of mind, you kind of lose yourself and time disappears, or expands. To me, when you’re reading properly and are really invested, time does the same thing.
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Some of the Books That Hernan Diaz Owns Surprise Even Him
  + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
Scott, Deborah Eisenberg, Paul Yoon, Ottessa Moshfegh, Michael Ondaatje, Louise Erdrich, Colson Whitehead, Sigrid Nunez, Jean Strouse, Lorrie Moore. The novel contains four different books, written by different fictional authors in disparate genres and styles. “Trust” closes with a personal diary that is also a sort of a prose poem and a love letter to modernism. While writing this, I read and revisited authors as different as Jean Rhys, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Dawn Powell, Theodor Adorno and Gertrude Stein. Wodehouse section of my library and can report that I’ve read 29 of his books.
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