“What was so dangerous about closeness?” (redux) The Old 77, New Orleans, LA and Echo Park, LA, CA All, Like Omari, I’m struggling (no pun indented) more than I expect/ed….
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My Struggle , vol. 6: Omari, October 31
Portland, OR Dear all, Before I get to Hitler, I want to talk about feelings—my own, stirred by one Karl Ove Knausgaard. I wrote another letter before I wrote this…
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My Struggle , vol. 6: Katherine Hill, October 26
October 26, 2018 Brooklyn, NY Dear Each and Every One of You, Several of you have heard this already, out loud, at our exhilarating Slow Burn panel at ASAP/10 in…
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My Struggle , vol. 6: Rachel Greenwald Smith, October 23
St. Louis, MO Dear Slow Burners, As I slowly make my way through Book 6, I keep thinking about this one moment in Charlie Rose’s famous interview with David Foster…
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My Struggle , vol. 6: Diana, October 15
Brooklyn, NY Dears, If, having opened a long book by a novelist you despise in preparation for an unpaid task, you find yourself too unwilling to let him tell you…
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My Struggle , vol. 6: Emily Tamkin, October 10
Dear friends, Washington, DC Before sitting down to write this letter, I went and looked up the blog post I wrote after I finished Book 1 of My Struggle. I…