Writing tagged New York Review of Books
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Everything had to be new
On the fads of 19th century Parisian bohemia.
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Slender gains
A bit from a review of a book by Katherine Boo, about how the poor complain about their neighbours more than they do about the rich.
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Midcult
Some bits about “midcult”, Dwight Macdonald’s term for middlebrow culture.
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Failure quotes
Two quotes about failure, from Samuel Beckett and Stephen Spender.