Stuart Ross
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I have a new piece in TNR on Melanie Anagnos’ *Nightswimming* which you should check out after reading my piece.
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The Good Cop Problem: On Melanie Anagnos' Nightswimming - The Metropolitan Review
“Two of the big knocks against crime fiction,” according to writer Sam Wiebe, “[are] that it glamorizes the police and fetishizes female victims.” These are fair knocks, but also the very pitfalls tha...
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September 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I have a new piece in TNR on Melanie Anagnos’ *Nightswimming* which you should check out after reading my piece.
metropolitanreview.com/the-good-cop...
metropolitanreview.com/the-good-cop...
Happy one year anniversary to The Hotel Egypt! Buy it here or anywhere, or DM for a copy.
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The Hotel Egypt
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September 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Happy one year anniversary to The Hotel Egypt! Buy it here or anywhere, or DM for a copy.
www.spuytenduyvil.net/The-Hotel-Eg...
www.spuytenduyvil.net/The-Hotel-Eg...
Keith Gessen says the same in “Money (2014)” from MFA vs: NYC: “In fact what I most wanted was to be told, by a writer, that I was myself a writer, that I had it.”
“The only time a writer receives his due reward is when someone comes to him burning with this flame which he fanned in a moment of solitude. Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.”
— Henry Miller
— Henry Miller
July 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Keith Gessen says the same in “Money (2014)” from MFA vs: NYC: “In fact what I most wanted was to be told, by a writer, that I was myself a writer, that I had it.”
I showed up on a podcast promoting The Hotel Egypt. Thanks to Danny and the UnTaking!
July 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I showed up on a podcast promoting The Hotel Egypt. Thanks to Danny and the UnTaking!
When you're such a bad-ass writer Anna K. and Sabbath server as "soothing reminders"
July 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
When you're such a bad-ass writer Anna K. and Sabbath server as "soothing reminders"
New writing in da stacks
July 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
New writing in da stacks
“The only time a writer receives his due reward is when someone comes to him burning with this flame which he fanned in a moment of solitude. Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.”
— Henry Miller
— Henry Miller
June 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
“The only time a writer receives his due reward is when someone comes to him burning with this flame which he fanned in a moment of solitude. Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.”
— Henry Miller
— Henry Miller
Mountainhead proves Succession wasn't that good.
June 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Mountainhead proves Succession wasn't that good.
The most terrifying part of scrolling is getting to the untranslatable Japanese word we need in English.
June 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The most terrifying part of scrolling is getting to the untranslatable Japanese word we need in English.
The Trump administration makes no sense unless we're in the streets.
June 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The Trump administration makes no sense unless we're in the streets.
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if i could snap my fingers and force all journalists everywhere to implement one linguistic tic i think i'd mandate "cars (which kill more than 3,000 people every day)"
Cars, which kill hundreds of New Yorkers every year, are allowed to go 10 mph above the speed limit before they get ticketed by speed cams.
Lyft initially declined to comply with Mayor Adams's proposed e-bike speed limit, pledging instead to slap speedometers and let riders self-regulate.
But that's before Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro stepped in and called the bikes "an emergency threat to life and property." buff.ly/ZOq4T0g
But that's before Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro stepped in and called the bikes "an emergency threat to life and property." buff.ly/ZOq4T0g
June 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
if i could snap my fingers and force all journalists everywhere to implement one linguistic tic i think i'd mandate "cars (which kill more than 3,000 people every day)"
So weird to me ppl pretend it takes two years for a book to come out when you could just post the PDF to a dropbox and be like, here's my book.
June 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
So weird to me ppl pretend it takes two years for a book to come out when you could just post the PDF to a dropbox and be like, here's my book.
The Lucy Dacus to Cranberries cafe background noise transition. Makes me want to listen to their child, Julie Doiron.
June 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Lucy Dacus to Cranberries cafe background noise transition. Makes me want to listen to their child, Julie Doiron.
Robert Graettinger composed in poverty and seclusion and was soon forgotten after he died in 1957. Aspects of his works’ internal struggles would preoccupy Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane.
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Incident In Jazz
Robert F. Graettinger, Ebony Band Amsterdam, Gunther Schuller · City Of Glass · Song · 2006
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June 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Robert Graettinger composed in poverty and seclusion and was soon forgotten after he died in 1957. Aspects of his works’ internal struggles would preoccupy Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane.
open.spotify.com/track/14BeJC...
open.spotify.com/track/14BeJC...
You’ve been in the house too long she said, so I naturally placed a Starbucks mobile order for an Impossible sandwich without cheese.
June 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
You’ve been in the house too long she said, so I naturally placed a Starbucks mobile order for an Impossible sandwich without cheese.
People would be more interesting if they weren’t always trying to get so much “quality sleep.” I wish I had more hair on my calves. I take the arrival of a cat on my lap as a sign of humility. I wish Juan Soto were still on the Bombers.
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Race Book (125p-108k)
People would be more interesting...
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June 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
People would be more interesting if they weren’t always trying to get so much “quality sleep.” I wish I had more hair on my calves. I take the arrival of a cat on my lap as a sign of humility. I wish Juan Soto were still on the Bombers.
pebbleculture.substack.com/p/race-book-...
pebbleculture.substack.com/p/race-book-...
New fiction, "Ambivalence, Indiana (French Lick)" on something I've always wonder about: when movie stars fly to Indiana for playoff games, what happens to them in Indiana?
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Ambivalence, Indiana (French Lick)
She was at a gas station, filling up a jug for the tractor.
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June 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
New fiction, "Ambivalence, Indiana (French Lick)" on something I've always wonder about: when movie stars fly to Indiana for playoff games, what happens to them in Indiana?
substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/peb...
substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/peb...
If Dave Eggers blurbed a book I know it’s probably good and I know I’m probably not going to read it.
May 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
If Dave Eggers blurbed a book I know it’s probably good and I know I’m probably not going to read it.
It’s weird that New Yorkers sit in FDR traffic staring at a gray river and Chicagoans sit in LSD traffic staring at the cerulean blur of Lake Michigan.
May 31, 2025 at 9:39 PM
It’s weird that New Yorkers sit in FDR traffic staring at a gray river and Chicagoans sit in LSD traffic staring at the cerulean blur of Lake Michigan.
Tik-Tok is the most desperate app in the app store.
May 31, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Tik-Tok is the most desperate app in the app store.
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“But I couldn’t help wishing its author took more risks. ‘Great writers of fiction,’ Arnold Bennett tells us, ‘are by the mysterious nature of their art ordained to be amateurs.’ The author of The Sleepers is many things, but an amateur isn’t one of them.”
Great review by a great writer!
Great review by a great writer!
At The Metropolitan Review I reviewed Matthew Gasda's new novel, The Sleepers. Thanks to Ross Barkan & company for siring TMR, one of the more exciting places for new writing on the web right now.
www.metropolitanreview.org/p/the-new-yo...
www.metropolitanreview.org/p/the-new-yo...
New York Groove
On Matthew Gasda's 'The Sleepers'
www.metropolitanreview.org
May 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
“But I couldn’t help wishing its author took more risks. ‘Great writers of fiction,’ Arnold Bennett tells us, ‘are by the mysterious nature of their art ordained to be amateurs.’ The author of The Sleepers is many things, but an amateur isn’t one of them.”
Great review by a great writer!
Great review by a great writer!
Alice Notley, Bolinas, California, 1971.
May 31, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Alice Notley, Bolinas, California, 1971.
“Right wing literature, amirite?” content is the Banana Republic Factory Outlet Henley of our time.
May 31, 2025 at 12:50 PM
“Right wing literature, amirite?” content is the Banana Republic Factory Outlet Henley of our time.